Humans influence shrimp movement: a conservation behavior case study with "Shrimp Watching" ecotourism.

ABSTRACT: An increase in ecotourism adversely impacts many animals and contributes to biodiversity loss. To mitigate these impacts, we illustrate the application of a conservation behavior framework toward the development of a sustainable ecotourism management plan. In Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, thousands of tourists annually come to see a unique mass migration of shrimps on land (referred to as "shrimp parading"). Preliminary work suggests that this tourism has negatively impacted the shrimps. To reduce tourism-related impacts we studied: 1) the decisions shrimps make when parading and 2) how shrimps respond to different light intensities and colors. We created an artificial stream and tested the conditions that influence parading by experimentally varying the presence of light and systematically

SUBMITTER: Hongjamrassilp W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8962751 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature