The human pressure on the middle Vistula River wildlife: the number and distribution of people and their activity on the river during the breeding season of birds
The study aimed to determine the distribution, numbers, and forms of human activity on the banks and in the riverbed of the middle part of the Vistula River. This section of the river is the most valuable for nature and is located between Puławy and the mouth of the Pilica River (km 373-548 of the n...
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| description | The study aimed to determine the distribution, numbers, and forms of human activity on the banks and in the riverbed of the middle part of the Vistula River. This section of the river is the most valuable for nature and is located between Puławy and the mouth of the Pilica River (km 373-548 of the navigation route). Censuses were conducted in May-June 2014 and 2015, the breeding season of the key species of the riverbed avifauna. The presence and different forms of human activity were recorded, including fishing, camping, water tourism, hiking, motorized tourism, and grazing animals. The frequent presence of people on the Vistula River was much greater in June than in May. In both months, the most popular form of spending time by humans in the riverbed was fishing. While in areas less valuable for birds, fishing strongly dominated, on parts of the river with key breeding habitats for birds, more aggressive forms of recreation, camping and motorized tourism (quads, motorcycles, off-road vehicles), were reported as often or even more frequently. The increasing popularity of these forms of recreation is a very serious threat to the fauna. They not only disturb the breeding birds but also physically destroy breeding habitats and nests with eggs and increase the mortality of chicks of gulls, terns, and other waders. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-81fe5ba84e024bb5a8d4d60fb97b9bcf2025-02-02T03:46:40ZengUniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w WarszawieStudia Ecologiae et Bioethicae1733-12182020-12-0118510.21697/seb.2020.18.5.35The human pressure on the middle Vistula River wildlife: the number and distribution of people and their activity on the river during the breeding season of birdsDariusz Bukaciński0Monika Bukacińska1Ewelina MastalerzInstitute of Ecology and Bioethics, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Institute of Ecology and Bioethics, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, The study aimed to determine the distribution, numbers, and forms of human activity on the banks and in the riverbed of the middle part of the Vistula River. This section of the river is the most valuable for nature and is located between Puławy and the mouth of the Pilica River (km 373-548 of the navigation route). Censuses were conducted in May-June 2014 and 2015, the breeding season of the key species of the riverbed avifauna. The presence and different forms of human activity were recorded, including fishing, camping, water tourism, hiking, motorized tourism, and grazing animals. The frequent presence of people on the Vistula River was much greater in June than in May. In both months, the most popular form of spending time by humans in the riverbed was fishing. While in areas less valuable for birds, fishing strongly dominated, on parts of the river with key breeding habitats for birds, more aggressive forms of recreation, camping and motorized tourism (quads, motorcycles, off-road vehicles), were reported as often or even more frequently. The increasing popularity of these forms of recreation is a very serious threat to the fauna. They not only disturb the breeding birds but also physically destroy breeding habitats and nests with eggs and increase the mortality of chicks of gulls, terns, and other waders.https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/seb/article/view/7235Middle Vistula ValleyNatura 2000human pressurebirds of Vistula Riverthe impact of tourism and recreationthe threats to gulls and terns on the river |
| spellingShingle | Dariusz Bukaciński Monika Bukacińska Ewelina Mastalerz The human pressure on the middle Vistula River wildlife: the number and distribution of people and their activity on the river during the breeding season of birds Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae Middle Vistula Valley Natura 2000 human pressure birds of Vistula River the impact of tourism and recreation the threats to gulls and terns on the river |
| title | The human pressure on the middle Vistula River wildlife: the number and distribution of people and their activity on the river during the breeding season of birds |
| title_full | The human pressure on the middle Vistula River wildlife: the number and distribution of people and their activity on the river during the breeding season of birds |
| title_fullStr | The human pressure on the middle Vistula River wildlife: the number and distribution of people and their activity on the river during the breeding season of birds |
| title_full_unstemmed | The human pressure on the middle Vistula River wildlife: the number and distribution of people and their activity on the river during the breeding season of birds |
| title_short | The human pressure on the middle Vistula River wildlife: the number and distribution of people and their activity on the river during the breeding season of birds |
| title_sort | human pressure on the middle vistula river wildlife the number and distribution of people and their activity on the river during the breeding season of birds |
| topic | Middle Vistula Valley Natura 2000 human pressure birds of Vistula River the impact of tourism and recreation the threats to gulls and terns on the river |
| url | https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/seb/article/view/7235 |
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