Details zur Publikation |
Kategorie | Textpublikation |
Referenztyp | Zeitschriften |
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. |
dauerhafte UFZ-Verlinkung | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=1889 |
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 |