Data release for ecosystem service flows from a migratory species: spatial subsidies of the northern pintail
Migratory species provide important benefits to society, but their cross-border conservation poses serious challenges. By quantifying the economic value of ecosystem services (ES) provided across a species range and ecological data on a species habitat dependence, we estimate spatial subsidieshow different regions support ES provided by a species across its range. We illustrate this method for migratory Northern Pintail ducks in North America. Pintails support over $101 million annually in recreational hunting and viewing and subsistence hunting in the U.S. and Canada. Pintail breeding regions provide nearly $30 million in subsidies to wintering regions, with the Prairie Pothole region supplying over $24 million in annual benefits to other regions. This information can be used to inform conservation funding allocation among migratory regions and nations on which the pintail depends. We thus illustrate a transferrable method to quantify migratory species-derived ES and provide information to aid in their transboundary conservation.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Title | Data release for ecosystem service flows from a migratory species: spatial subsidies of the northern pintail |
| DOI | 10.5066/F7Q23ZFC |
| Authors | Kenneth J Bagstad, Darius J Semmens, James (Jay) E. Diffendorfer, Brady J. Mattsson, James Dubovsky, Wayne E Thogmartin, Ruscena Wiederholt, John Loomis, Joshua Goldstein, Joanna A. Bieri, Christine Sample, Laura Lopez-Hoffman |
| Product Type | Data Release |
| Record Source | USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog |
| USGS Organization | Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center |
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