Balancing tourism development and habitat conservation in fragile ecosystems: A case study of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

ABSTRACT: As a typical representative of global ecologically fragile areas and emerging tourism hotspots, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has important research value in its collaborative path between ecosystem protection and tourism development. We take Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (GTAP) in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as a case, and use InVEST model, kernel density estimation and geodetector methods to reveal the spatial distribution of habitat quality from multiple scales, quantify the intensity of tourism activities, and explore the impact of tourism activities on fragile ecosystems. The results show that: (1) Habitat quality shows significant gradient characteristics, and the overall decreases from southeast to northwest. At the county scale, Diebu County in the southeast (0.82

SUBMITTER: Yang B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12273996 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature