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DOI 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.11.011
Titel (primär) Evaluating cost-effectiveness of conservation management actions in an agricultural landscape on a regional scale
Autor Holzkämper, A.; Seppelt, R.
Quelle Biological Conservation
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
Department CLE
Band/Volume 136
Heft 1
Seite von 117
Seite bis 127
Sprache englisch
Keywords Spatially explicit optimisation; Cost-benefit analysis; Habitat suitability; Ecological-economic modelling; Regionalisation
Abstract Agricultural landscapes are the dominating landscape types in many parts of the world. Land-use intensification and spatial homogeneity are major threats to biodiversity in these landscapes. Thus cost-effective strategies for species conservation in large-scale agricultural landscapes are required. Spatial optimisation methods can be applied to identify the most effective allocation of a given budget for conservation. However, the optimisation of spatial land-use patterns in real landscapes on a large spatial scale is often limited by computational power. In this paper, we present a simplifying methodology for analysing cost-effectiveness of management actions on a regional scale. A spatially explicit optimisation approach is employed to identify optimum agricultural land-use patterns with respect to an ecological-economic goal function. Based on the optimisation results for small scale landscape samples we derive a target- and site-specific cost-benefit function that can be applied to predict ecological improvement as a function of costs and local conditions on a large spatial scale. Thus, it is possible to identify areas where management actions for ecological improvement are most efficient with respect to a certain conservation goal. The fitted function is validated independently. In a case study, we analyse cost-effectiveness of management actions to enhance habitat suitability for three different target species. The approach is flexible and could be applied to a variety of other landscape planning problems dealing with the effective allocation of management measures.
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Holzkämper, A., Seppelt, R. (2007):
Evaluating cost-effectiveness of conservation management actions in an agricultural landscape on a regional scale
Biol. Conserv. 136 (1), 117 - 127 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.11.011