Factors influencing informal trail conditions: Implications for management and research in Urban-Proximate parks and protected areas

New social trails made during the pandemic increase fragmentation of an urban protected area

(2021) Richard B. Primack et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

GIS-based spatial prediction of recreational trail susceptibility in protected area of Sikkim Himalaya using logistic regression, decision tree and random forest model

(2021) Nemai Sahani et al.   Ecological Informatics

Application of airborne LiDAR and GIS in modeling trail erosion along the Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire, USA

(2020) Holly Eagleston et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Soil erosion on mountain trails as a consequence of recreational activities. A comprehensive review of the scientific literature

(2020) D. Salesa et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The influence of layout on Appalachian Trail soil loss, widening, and muddiness: Implications for sustainable trail design and management

(2019) Fletcher Meadema et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Combining remote sensing and on-site monitoring methods to investigate footpath erosion within a popular recreational heathland environment

(2018) Sue Rodway-Dyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Mapping the relationships between trail conditions and experiential elements of long-distance hiking

(2018) Brian A. Peterson et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

How Networks of Informal Trails Cause Landscape Level Damage to Vegetation

(2017) Agustina Barros et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Assessing the influence of sustainable trail design and maintenance on soil loss

(2017) Jeffrey L. Marion et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Comparing impacts between formal and informal recreational trails

(2017) Catherine Marina Pickering et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The efficacy of combined educational and site management actions in reducing off-trail hiking in an urban-proximate protected area

(2017) Karen S. Hockett et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

A new framework for prioritising decisions on recreational trail management

(2017) Aleksandra M. Tomczyk et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Differences in the impacts of formal and informal recreational trails on urban forest loss and tree structure

(2015) Mark Ballantyne et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The impacts of trail infrastructure on vegetation and soils: Current literature and future directions

(2015) Mark Ballantyne et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Perceptions of recreational trail impacts on an urban forest walk: A controlled field experiment

(2015) Andrej Verlič et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Walk on the Wild Side: Estimating the Global Magnitude of Visits to Protected Areas

(2015) Andrew Balmford et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Degradation of recreational trails, Gorce National Park, Poland

(2014) Aleksandra M. Tomczyk et al.   Journal of Maps

Recreational trails are an important cause of fragmentation in endangered urban forests: A case-study from Australia

(2014) Mark Ballantyne et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Spatially Characterizing Visitor Use and Its Association with Informal Trails in Yosemite Valley Meadows

(2013) Chelsey Walden-Schreiner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Recent advances in recreation ecology and the implications of different relationships between recreation use and ecological impacts

(2013) Christopher A Monz et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Impacts of informal trails on vegetation and soils in the highest protected area in the Southern Hemisphere

(2013) Agustina Barros et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The Effects of Local Ecological Knowledge, Minimum-Impact Knowledge, and Prior Experience on Visitor Perceptions of the Ecological Impacts of Backcountry Recreation

(2012) Ashley D’Antonio et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Developing a Monitoring Protocol for Visitor-Created Informal Trails in Yosemite National Park, USA

(2010) Yu-Fai Leung et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The influence of use, environmental and managerial factors on the width of recreational trails

(2010) Jeremy F. Wimpey et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

A spatial exploration of informal trail networks within Great Falls Park, VA

(2010) Jeremy Wimpey et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Assessment and Monitoring of Recreation Impacts and Resource Conditions on Mountain Summits: Examples From the Northern Forest, USA

(2010) Christopher A. Monz et al.   MOUNTAIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Sustaining Visitor Use in Protected Areas: Future Opportunities in Recreation Ecology Research Based on the USA Experience

(2009) Christopher A. Monz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The influence of use-related, environmental, and managerial factors on soil loss from recreational trails

(2008) Nathaniel D. Olive et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT