Space and Species Interactions in Welfare Estimates for Invasive Species Policy
| Autor: | Edward S. Rutherford, Stephanie Brockmann, Hongyan Zhang, Doran M. Mason |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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non-market goods
Ecology Natural resource economics Evolution media_common.quotation_subject Lake ecosystem spatial heterogeneity welfare estimation conservation Social Welfare Metapopulation bioeconomic Invasive species Spatial heterogeneity Geography QH359-425 Social ecological model Economic model ecosystems Welfare QH540-549.5 Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Vol 9 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2296-701X |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fevo.2021.703935 |
| Popis: | Aquatic invasive species (AIS) can cause catastrophic damages to lake ecosystems. Bigheaded carp are one such species that pose a current threat to Lake Michigan. Bigheaded carp are expected to have spatially differentiated impacts on other aquatic species in the metapopulation. Policymakers must decide how much to invest in mitigation or conservation policies, if at all, by understanding how invasions impact social welfare or social wellbeing. Estimates of social welfare implications, however, may be biased if important interactions between species and space are overly simplified or aggregated out of the model. In this analysis, a bioeconomic model that links an ecological model with an economic model of recreational fishing behavior is used to complete a comparative analysis of the social welfare implications across several different ecological specifications to demonstrate what biases exist if species interactions are neglected or if ecological characteristics are assumed to be homogenous across space. Results of the bigheaded carp case study suggest that social welfare losses from the invasion vary substantially if species interactions are excluded and vary less if space is treated homogeneously. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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