Essays about: "Yellowstone National Park"

Found 2 essays containing the words Yellowstone National Park.

1. 1. Impact from Tourism on Vegetation Greenness in Yellowstone National Park

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Fenja Runfors; [2023]
   Keywords : Yellowstone National Park; NDVI; Remote Sensing; Tourism; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Tourism has increased drastically during the last decades in Yellowstone National Park, from nearly 20 000 visitors in 1910 to almost five million visitors in 2021. Yellowstone is an important ecosystem with unique wildlife, and geological and cultural history. READ MORE

3. 2. Disentangling risk in a multi-predator landscape : roe deer respond to differing patterns of risk to lynx, wolves and humans through shifts in their habitat selection

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

   Author : Andrew Lewis; [2015]
   Keywords : Canis lupus; Capreolus capreolus; indirect effects; landscape of fear; Lynx lynx; multi-predator systems; predation risk; Scandinavia; spatial risk patterns; ungulates;

   Abstract : Predation risk is known to evoke behavioural responses in prey animals, and prey are often faced with a trade-off between lowering their risk to predation and acquiring resources. This situation becomes more complex in a multi-predator landscape, especially if those predators employ different hunting strategies, and induce different spatial patterns of risk. READ MORE