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Table 1 Description of recreational disturbance profiles

From: Response of tropical avifauna to visitor recreational disturbances: a case study from the Sinharaja World Heritage Forest, Sri Lanka

Cluster

1

2

3

4

Name

No recreational disturbance (NRD)

Low recreational disturbance (LRD)

Moderate recreational disturbance (MRD)

High recreational disturbance (HRD)

Description

No human vocal disturbances, no visitors

Silent to low human vocal disturbances, average number of visitors = 4

Moderate human vocal disturbances, average number of visitors = 17

High human vocal disturbances, average number of visitors = 40

Cluster size

51.79 %

(n = 159)

26.38 %

(n = 81)

14.33 %

(n = 44)

7.50 %

(n = 23)