Ecotourism's Promise and Peril: A Biological Evaluation
"Foreword" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Contents" -- "Editors and Contributors" -- "1: Introduction: Ecotourism's Promise and Peril" -- "References" -- "2: Physiological and Behavioral Consequences of Human Visitation" -- "2.1 Introduction" -- "2.2 Physiological Responses to Human Visitation" -- "2.2.1 Humans Are Perceived as Stressors" -- "2.2.2 Effects of Prolonged Human Visitation on Basal Stress Hormone Levels" -- "2.2.3 Frequent Human Visitation Disrupts Coping Abilities" -- "2.2.4 Effect of Ecotourism on Body Condition" -- "2.3 Behavioral Responses" -- "2.3.1 Avoidance: Flight and Displacement" -- "2.3.2 Behavioral Time Budgets" -- "2.3.3 Behavioral Responses to Provisioning" -- "2.3.4 Animal Personality" -- "References" -- "3: Ecological Consequences of Ecotourism for Wildlife Populations and Communities" -- "3.1 Introduction" -- "3.2 Scaling Up the Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Human Presence" -- "3.3 Mortality" -- "3.4 Consequences of Food Provisioning" -- "3.5 Habitat Degradation" -- "3.6 Biological Invasions" -- "3.7 Disease" -- "References" -- "4: Transgenerational Consequences of Human Visitation" -- "4.1 Introduction" -- "4.2 Changes in Animal Behavior as a Result of Human Proximity" -- "4.3 Mechanisms of Transgenerational Change in Behavior" -- "4.3.1 Microevolutionary Changes in Behavior" -- "4.3.2 Epigenetic Changes in Behavior" -- "4.3.3 Changes in Behavior Caused by Habituation to Humans" -- "4.3.4 Changes in Behavior Caused by Phenotypic Sorting" -- "4.3.5 The Biological Effects of Human Contact on Wild Animals" -- "4.4 Future Directions" -- "References" -- "5: Impacts of Fish Tourism" -- "5.1 Introduction" -- "5.2 Impacts of Humans Observing Fish" -- "5.2.1 Physiology" -- "5.2.2 Behavior" -- "5.2.3 Ecology" -- "5.3 Impacts of Food Provisioning