Spatial and Temporal Variation in Soil and Vegetation Impacts on Campsites

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dc.contributor.authorMarion, Jeffrey L.en
dc.contributor.authorCole, D. N.en
dc.contributor.departmentForest Resources and Environmental Conservationen
dc.date.accessed2014-03-11en
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-27T13:06:09Zen
dc.date.available2014-03-27T13:06:09Zen
dc.date.issued1996-05en
dc.description.abstractWe studied the impacts of camping on soil and vegetation at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. We assessed the magnitude of impact on campsites that varied in amount of use and in topographic position. We also evaluated change over a 5-yr period on long-established, recently opened, and recently closed campsites, as well as on plots subjected to experimental trampling. Campsite impacts were intense and spatially variable. Amount of use and topographic position explained some of this variation. Soil and vegetation conditions changed rapidly when campsites were initially opened to use and when they were closed to use. Changes were less pronounced on the long-established campsites that remained open to use. In the trampling experiments, impact varied greatly with trampling intensity and between vegetation types. An open-canopy grassland vegetation type was much more resistant to trampling than a forb-dominated forest vegetation type. Campsite impacts increased rapidly with initial disturbance, stabilized with ongoing disturbance, and-in contrast to what has been found in most other studies-decreased rapidly once disturbance was terminated. Implications of these results for campsite management strategies, such as use concentration or dispersal, and rotation or closure of campsites, are discussed.en
dc.description.sponsorshipU.S. Dept. of the Interior National Park Service, Mid-Atlantic Regional Officeen
dc.identifier.citationJeffrey L. Marion and David N. Cole 1996. Spatial and Temporal Variation in Soil and Vegetation Impacts on Campsites. Ecological Applications 6:520-530. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2269388en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2307/2269388en
dc.identifier.issn1051-0761en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/46861en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/2269388en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherEcological Society of Americaen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectcampsite impacten
dc.subjectcampsite recoveryen
dc.subjectdelaware water gap nationalen
dc.subjectrecreation areaen
dc.subjectexperimental tramplingen
dc.subjectnortheastern united statesen
dc.subjectrecreation ecologyen
dc.subjectrecreation impact managementen
dc.subjectrecreation impactsen
dc.subjectriparian forestsen
dc.subjecttemporal variationen
dc.subjectwilderness campsitesen
dc.subjectcommunitiesen
dc.titleSpatial and Temporal Variation in Soil and Vegetation Impacts on Campsitesen
dc.title.serialEcological Applicationsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden

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