Returns from hay cultivation in fertilized low diversity and non-fertilized high diversity grassland: An "insurance" value of grassland plant diversity?

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 89-100

  Schläpfer, Felix ^a   Tucker, Michael ^b   Seidl, Irmi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Grassland; Insurance; Option pricing model; Stability

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FERTILIZERS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

INTERANNUAL STABILITY;

CULTIVATION;

BIODIVERSITY; GRASSLAND; HAY; PRODUCTIVITY;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0036205867     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014580317028     Document Type: Article

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