Game auction prices are not related to biodiversity contributions of southern African ungulates and large carnivores.

ABSTRACT: There is an urgent need for human societies to become environmentally sustainable. Because public policy is largely driven by economic processes, quantifications of the relationship between market prices and environmental values can provide important information for developing strategies towards sustainability. Wildlife in southern Africa is often privately owned and traded at game auctions to be utilized for commercial purposes mostly related to tourism. This market offers an interesting opportunity to evaluate how market prices relate to biologically meaningful species characteristics. In this market, prices were not correlated with species contributions to either phylogenetic or functional diversity, and species contributions to phylogenetic or functional diversity did not influence the

SUBMITTER: Dalerum F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4766510 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature