Ecological and economic implications of alternative metrics in biodiversity offset markets.

ABSTRACT: Policy tools are needed that allow reconciliation of human development pressures with conservation priorities. Biodiversity offsetting can be used to compensate for ecological losses caused by development activities. Landowners can choose to undertake conservation actions, including habitat restoration, to generate biodiversity offsets. Consideration of the incentives facing landowners as potential biodiversity offset providers and developers as potential buyers of credits is critical when considering the ecological and economic landscape-scale outcomes of alternative offset metrics. There is an expectation that landowners will always seek to conserve the least profitable land parcels, and, in turn, this determines the spatial location of biodiversity offset credits. We developed an ecolog

SUBMITTER: Simpson KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9796709 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature