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R\u00edos-jara, E., Galv\u00e1n-villa, C. M., Rodr\u00edguez-zaragoza, F. A., L\u00f3pez-uriarte, E., & Mu\u00f1oz-fern\u00e1ndez, V. T. (2013). The tourism carrying capacity of underwater trails in isabel island national park, mexico.\u00a0Environmental Management,\u00a052<\/em>(2), 335-47. doi:http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s00267-013-0047-3<\/p>\n This journal article is titled, \u201cThe Tourism Carrying Capacity of Underwater Trails in Isabel Island National Park, Mexico,\u201d and it was worked on by Eduardo R\u0131\u00b4os-Jara, Cristian Moise\u00b4s, Galva\u00b4n-Villa, Fabia\u00b4n Alejandro Rodr\u0131\u00b4guez-Zaragoza, Ernesto Lo\u00b4pez-Uriarte, and Vicente Teo\u00b4filo Mun\u02dcoz-Ferna\u00b4ndez.\u00a0 The problem that they were dealing with was the rapid decline in biodiversity caused by human activities in the marine protected areas of Mexico.\u00a0 Many SCUBA divers travel to Mexico every year to go see the underwater sights, but they can be harmful to the ecosystems if they are not careful.\u00a0 Their research question was could ecotourism trails be created and a tourism carrying capacity be figured out in order to protect the biodiversity as well as still allow tourist to dive.\u00a0 The data that they needed were acts, behaviors, and reports.\u00a0 They needed to study multiple areas to figure out if an underwater trail could work.\u00a0 The study area was Isabel Island in the mouth of the Gulf of California.\u00a0 This location is known for its vast amounts of biodiversity.\u00a0 They then had to map out underwater trails that would please the tourist, but would also not create a disturbance to the wildlife and habitats.\u00a0 One of the ways they analyzed their data was by creating a large map.\u00a0 The map laid out all of the possible diving sites, underwater trails, soft coral, stony coral, opisthobranches, echinoderms, and fishes. To figure out the carrying capacity of the water trails they used a wide variety of mathematical analysis to come up with a possible capacity that benefited the area the most.\u00a0 They came up with six underwater trails that diving activities did not cause any damage.\u00a0 This research project took a long time because of all the detail they had to get.\u00a0 I thought this was interesting because they are working with ecotourism, which is something I would like to do in the future.\u00a0 In my biodiversity class, we are creating a research proposal grant and we are dealing with ecotourism as well.\u00a0 This research has showed me that through hard work, biodiversity can be saved and still enjoyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" R\u00edos-jara, E., Galv\u00e1n-villa, C. M., Rodr\u00edguez-zaragoza, F. A., L\u00f3pez-uriarte, E., & Mu\u00f1oz-fern\u00e1ndez, V. T. (2013). The tourism carrying capacity of underwater trails in isabel island national park, mexico.\u00a0Environmental Management,\u00a052(2), 335-47. doi:http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s00267-013-0047-3 This journal article is titled, \u201cThe Tourism Carrying Capacity of Underwater Trails in Isabel Island National Park, Mexico,\u201d and it was worked on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}