The Hidden Cost of Tourism: Detecting Long-term Effects of Tourism Using Behavioral Information

By David Lusseau. 2004

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Increasingly, whales and dolphins are the focus of tourism activities in many coastal locations. Although these activities can affect individuals and populations of cetaceans, the biological significance and hence the cost of these impacts are as yet largely unknown. This study assessed the effects of boat interactions on the behavioral budget of two populations of bottlenose dolphins (Tersiops truncatus) living in similar fjords but exposed to different levels of tourism activities. This comparison makes it possible to assess the costs of short-term avoidance strategies and the threshold at which those strategies are no longer effective. The effects of boat

Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology

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Animal welfare with and without consciousness (2017, methodology): “This method can even be used find out what wild animals like or dislike, for example, whether dolphins like or dislike the presence of tourist boats on their feeding areas (Constantine, Brunton & Dennis, 2004; Lusseau, 2004).”
Modelling the biological significance of behavioural change in coastal bottlenose dolphins in response to disturbance (2013, background): “While the dolphins’ individual behavioural response to anthropogenic disturbances appears relatively similar across populations (Nowacek, Wells & Solow 2001; Lusseau 2006; Miller, Solangi & Kuczaj 2008), the effects of disturbance on population dynamics can vary (Lusseau 2004).”
Shark and ray provisioning: functional insights into behavioral, ecological and physiological responses across multiple scales (2015, background): “At the individual scale, the disruption of natural movement patterns is likely to have negative effects on animals’ energy budgets and overall health, as reported in whales (Lusseau 2004).”
Inferring activity budgets in wild animals to estimate the consequences of disturbances (2013, background): “Even if such interactions provide an important economic foundation for wildlife conservation, they can affect the behavioral ecology of the targeted species (Lusseau 2004; Woodroffe et al.”
Do Marine Mammals Experience Stress Related to Anthropogenic Noise (2007, background): “Bejder, 2005; Bejder et al., 2006; Lusseau, 2004; Lusseau, Slooten & Currey, 2006 - 307 - Animal Stimulus Mechanisms Observations Consequences Sources Coastal odontocetes Boat interactions Masking.”
Variation in depth of whitetip reef sharks: does provisioning ecotourism change their behaviour? (2011, background): “, daily, this has the potential to have significant negative effects on the animals’ metabolic rates, net energy gain and overall health, reproduction and fitness (Stephens and Krebs 1986; Lusseau 2004).”
Time allocation and the evolution of group size (2008, unknown): “In sensitive populations, anthropogenic disturbance could set off a chain of temporally mediated events that ultimately reduces the amount of time animals have available to spend in social behaviours or otherwise maintain social cohesion (see Lusseau 2004).”
Tourism affects the behavioural budget of the common dolphin Delphinus sp. in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand (2008, methodology): “Behavioural activity budgets have been used to assess disturbance in several cetacean species including killer whale Orcinus orca, dusky dolphin, bottlenose dolphin and common dolphin (Barr & Slooten 1999, Lusseau 2004, Neumann & Orams 2006, Williams et al. 2006).”
Ecology and conservation of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the Mediterranean Sea (2009, background): “Similar negative effects have been reported from other places around the world (Allen & Read, 2000; Lusseau, 2004, 2005; Bejder et al., 2006b).”
Socio-economic value and community benefits from shark-diving tourism in Palau: A sustainable use of reef shark populations (2012, unknown): “When poorly regulated, tourism based on the observation of marine megafauna can also cause disturbances to the animals, which can lead to negative behavioral and ecological consequences (Lusseau, 2004; Williams et al., 2006).”
Meta-analyses of whale-watching impact studies: Comparisons of cetacean responses to disturbance (2016, methodology): “We estimated activity budgets from activity state transition matrices from focal group follows (Lusseau 2004).”
Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus in the Mediterranean Sea (2011, background): “…studies elsewhere have shown that vessel traffic can affect olphin behaviour, activity and energy budgets, habitat use and eproductive success (e.g. Lusseau, 2003, 2004; Bejder et al., 2006). his can include short-term displacement, long-term area avoidnce and reduced female reproductive success.”
Inter-annual variability in the home range of breeding turtles: implications for current and future conservation management. (2010, background): “The impact of recreational activities is not known, however we presume the turtles may be subjected to a degree of disturbance from boats and swimmers as has been recorded in dolphins (Lusseau, 2004, 2006).”
The Long-term Consequences of Short-term Responses to Disturbance Experiences from Whalewatching Impact Assessment (2007, background): “We undertook studies on bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) at two sites: Shark Bay, Australia (Bejder et al., 2006a) and Fiordland, New Zealand (Lusseau, 2004).”