Single-Track Bike Trails in the Moravian Karst as Part of Forest Recreation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/f12111601" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/f12111601</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12111601" target="_blank" >10.3390/f12111601</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Single-Track Bike Trails in the Moravian Karst as Part of Forest Recreation

Original language description

Recently, cycling has become a popular recreation activity, and mountain biking provides an experience that is sought by an increasing number of people. Bike trails constructed for mountain bikers in access areas lead mostly through the forest and provide not only an extraordinary riding experience but the opportunity to admire the surrounding nature. The reason for constructing such trails from a landowner&apos;s point of view is to help keep bikers&apos; movements within a defined access area and to ensure adjacent areas are left free for other forest functions. It also helps distribute groups of visitors with other interests to other parts of the forest. This is what we call &quot;controlled recreation &quot;. In this example, it means that if cyclists come to the locality to use the bike trails, they should ride only along the designated trails; however, they may leave these trails and ride on the surrounding land. This article studied the movements of bikers in an accessible area of the Moravian Karst and the regulation of their movements by controlled recreation. Attendance in the area was measured using automatic counters. These were placed at the entry points to the accessible area and just behind the routes where the trails branch off. The results showed that bikers mostly stayed on the formal routes and that the trails were effective, i.e., there was no uncontrolled movement of bikers into the surrounding forest stands. We also noted the time of day that cyclists were active. These results can be used to better plan work in the forest, for example, harvesting and logging. To further the suitable development of accessible areas of the forest, we also compared the usual size of trail areas in two other European countries and the increasing width of bike trails due to the transverse slope of the terrain.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Forests

ISSN

1999-4907

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1601

UT code for WoS article

000723388000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85122797404