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ArticleEnvironmental management2019

Whale Shark Tourism: Impacts on Coral Reefs in the Philippines.

C W Martin Wong, Inga Conti-Jerpe, Laurie J Raymundo, Caroline Dingle, Gonzalo Araujo, Alessandro Ponzo, David M Baker

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Article in Environmental management, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

C W Martin WongThe Swire Institute of Marine Science and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
Inga Conti-JerpeThe Swire Institute of Marine Science and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
Laurie J RaymundoUniversity of Guam Marine Laboratory, UOG Station, Mangilao, GU, 96923, USA.
Caroline DingleDepartment of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
Gonzalo AraujoLarge Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines, Cagulada Compound, Barangay Tejero, Jagna, Bohol, 6308, Philippines.
Alessandro PonzoLarge Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines, Cagulada Compound, Barangay Tejero, Jagna, Bohol, 6308, Philippines.
David M BakerThe Swire Institute of Marine Science and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. dmbaker@hku.hk.ORCID 0000-0002-0308-4954

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reef-based tourism has been developing rapidly in recent decades yet its impacts on reef ecosystems are often overlooked. In Tan-awan, Oslob, Philippines, whale sharks are attracted to the shallow reefs where they are provisioned up to 50 tons y

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AnthozoaSharksAnimalsCoral ReefsEcosystemPhilippinesCoastal developmentEutrophicationReef degradationRetrospective isotope analysisTourism managementWhale shark tourism

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PMID30515531

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