caa a22 4500 606227377 CHVBK 20210128101158.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10641-014-0335-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10641-014-0335-7 A model for predicting tourist carrying capacity and implications for fish conservation [Elektronische Daten] [Lee Lee, Zi Chang] Tourism development in protected areas inevitably induces a decline in the ecological environment and species survival. However, the degree of impact depends on target species' environmental quality tolerance and the number of tourists. Each fish can tolerate a specific level of water quality. Water quality should not deteriorate below this level as a result of tourism. In this study, we used regression analysis and habitat suitability curve method to determine the number of tourists that could visit an area without inducing a decline in water quality that would negatively impact the survival of protected fishes. A regression model indicated that of the ten water quality parameters evaluated, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, and ammonia-nitrogen were most impacted by tourists. A habitat suitability curve was produced for each target fish population and water quality parameter. These curves were used to determine suitable water quality for fish survival. The curves were then combined to determine the acceptable number of tourists for management of water quality suitable for fish survival. In order to maintain suitable water quality for the survival of Varicorhinus barbatulus, Candidia barbatus, and Acrossocheilus paradoxus, the threshold number of tourists at the study site is 3,000-3,600 people per week. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Water quality model nationallicence Habitat suitability curve nationallicence Carrying capacity nationallicence Threshold number of tourists nationallicence Protected area management nationallicence Lee Lee Department of Landscape Architecture, Chung Hua University, 707, Sec. 2, WuFu Rd., 300, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China aut Chang Zi Department of Landscape Architecture, Chung Hua University, 707, Sec. 2, WuFu Rd., 300, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China aut Environmental Biology of Fishes Springer Netherlands 98/3(2015-03-01), 871-884 0378-1909 98:3<871 2015 98 10641 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-014-0335-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-014-0335-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lee Lee Department of Landscape Architecture, Chung Hua University, 707, Sec. 2, WuFu Rd., 300, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chang Zi Department of Landscape Architecture, Chung Hua University, 707, Sec. 2, WuFu Rd., 300, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Biology of Fishes Springer Netherlands 98/3(2015-03-01), 871-884 0378-1909 98:3<871 2015 98 10641