A model-based approach for designing cost-effective compensation payments for conservation of endangered species in real landscapes

Biological Conservation

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 174-186

  Drechsler, Martin ^a   Wätzold, Frank ^a   Johst, Karin ^a   Bergmann, Holger ^b   Settele, Josef ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Cost effectiveness; Ecological economic modelling; Metapopulation dynamics; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; LANDAU; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

MACULINEA TELEIUS;

EID: 34948861655     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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