Oxford Long-Term Ecology Lab

Long-Term Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation, and Environmental Stewardship Technologies


Estimated visitor density across Europe

Peter Long, Sandra Nogue, David Benz and Kathy Willis recently published a paper in Frontiers in Biogeography demonstating how to map the ecosystem service of outdoor recreation across Europe.  The model used data on numbers of visitors to certain sites to predict visitor density across the whole continent on the basis of human population density, social media records and environmental variables.   We show that the most spectacular landscapes are not actually the locations where the amount of recreational visitors is greatest.  Instead most recreation takes place in green spaces relatively close to people’s homes, thus the most important areas for providing recreational amenity are green spaces near cities.     https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xj3q9g2

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December 1, 2022

Vector Atlas Engagement and Partnership Meeting, December 2022

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November 22, 2022

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November 1, 2022

Vector Atlas Spatial Modelling Workshop, November-December 2022

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September 30, 2022

Vector Atlas at the 8th Annual PAMCA conference

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July 10, 2022

Vector Atlas Kick-off Meeting

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