South Atlantic Tourist Resorts: Predictors

FAGGI, A. PEREPELIZIN P., J. DADON

Urban Biodiversity and Design

John Wiley & Sons

Año: 2010; p. 363 - 379

In Argentina, coastal resorts are located in dunes, whichwere originally covered by native herbaceous vegetation.Until the area became important for tourism, the primary activities in the coastal lands were fishing and cattle-farming. Up to then, it was mandatory to afforest the dunes before land was assembled and sold for urban or residential development. Since then, afforestation with exotic trees has been used to stabilize the mobile dunes. Weinvestigated the effect of exotic afforestation on dune vegetation and bird diversity.Weconducted pair-wise plant and bird inventories in both afforested and undisturbed dunes in the province of Buenos Aires.