Bio economic modeling for a sustainable management of biodiversity in agricultural lands

Mouysset, Lauriane; Doyen, Luc; Jiguet, Frédéric; Allaire, Gilles; Léger, François

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.12.006

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“…2.2 for further discussion). Examples of other environmental economics studies using the BBS include econometrically testing the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis (Lantz and Martínez-Espiñeira 2008;Strong et al 2011) and calibration of ecological/economic simulation models to quantify the impacts of land-use change (Mouysset et al 2011;Bateman et al 2013). We constructed a 400m landscape buffer for each route in the study area and used these buffers to extract annual land cover from the CDL and grassland bird observations from the BBS.…”

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Effect of Agricultural Commodity Prices on Species Abundance of US Grassland Birds

Evans

Potts

2014

Environ Resource Econ

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The expansion of row crop agriculture in the US is a major threat to grassland ecosystems and the biodiversity that they support. In this paper we developed an integrated econometric-ecological modeling framework that examines the impact of changing prices for agricultural commodities on grassland bird abundance in the Midwest United States. Our econometric model of land use change predicts changes in cropland acreage in response to land owner's commodity price expectations. The ecological models predict changes in species abundance for twenty-two grassland birds in response to land use change. We demonstrate one application of our results by using parameter estimates from the models to simulate the effect of the 2006-2012 corn ethanol expansion on thirteen bird species of conservation concern. We found that a relatively inelastic total cropland acreage response to expected prices likely mitigated some of the ecological impact arising from increased demand for agricultural commodities. Furthermore, we found that impacts on species abundance are heterogeneous across different species and highly sensitive to model selection. Our findings emphasize the importance of using economically driven acreage expansion scenarios when estimating the environmental impacts of land use change.

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Effect of Agricultural Commodity Prices on Species Abundance of US Grassland Birds

Evans

Potts

2014

Environ Resource Econ

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“…Management recommendations are much easier to incorporate at such small (local) spatial scale than at larger ones (Mouysset et al 2011). We also did not count all small landscape features (e.g., singular trees or shrubs) because at the scale of study and in so many orchards it was simply infeasible to collect such data.…”

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Effects of management intensity and orchard features on bird communities in winter

Myczko

Rosin

Skórka

et al. 2013

Ecological Research

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The knowledge and conservation of diminishing valuable habitats in agricultural landscapes are of key importance in saving declining farmland biodiversity. One of these habitats is the traditional orchard whose role in supporting birds is still poorly known, especially in winter. We counted birds in 106 orchards differing in management intensity (abandoned, traditional, and intensive) during December 2009 and January 2010 in Wielkopolska, western Poland and measured site characteristics and composition of surrounding landscapes for every orchard. Old abandoned and traditionally managed orchards had significantly higher bird species richness than intensive ones. Irrespective of orchard type, bird species richness as well as density were positively influenced by the cover of unmown herb layer in orchards and tree diversity. Tree and fruit densities positively affected bird species richness and density mainly in abandoned orchards while in other orchard types the effect of these variables was less pronounced. Land cover diversity in a landscape had a positive effect on species richness and density mostly in abandoned orchards and we believe that this effect reflects the elevated utilization of such orchards by birds from the surrounding landscape. Thus, abandoned, as well as traditionally managed orchards seems to be especially important habitats that offer food source and refuge for wintering birds and should be protected. We propose to diversify fruit production by planting various tree species, leaving part of the herb layer unmown and several trees unharvested in intensive orchards in order to improve suitability of modern orchards for birds.

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“…En sus de leur int erêt strictement scientifique, ces approches holistiques peuvent fournir des informations utiles pour orienter des politiques agricoles, par exemple des changements de syst emes de production ou la promotion de l'agriculture biologique. Des etudes sont en cours pour les coupler avec des mod eles economiques en vue d' etablir des sc enarios de co-viabilit e entre agriculture et biodiversit e (Mouysset et al, 2011). Toutefois, ces approches ne sont pas assez d etaill ees pour travailler a l'am elioration des pratiques dans le cadre d'un syst eme de production donn e (Hole et al, 2005) La th eorie de l' ecologie des paysages soutient que la biodiversit e peutêtre mise en relation avec les caract eristiques du paysage conçu comme un syst eme form e de divers habitats.…”

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Évaluation de l’impact de la culture de colza sur la biodiversité aviaire en France : enjeux, méthodes, premiers résultats

Sausse

Penillard

Barbottin³

et al. 2011

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Bio economic modeling for a sustainable management of biodiversity in agricultural lands

Cited by 74 publications

References 44 publications

Effect of Agricultural Commodity Prices on Species Abundance of US Grassland Birds

Effect of Agricultural Commodity Prices on Species Abundance of US Grassland Birds

Effects of management intensity and orchard features on bird communities in winter

Évaluation de l’impact de la culture de colza sur la biodiversité aviaire en France : enjeux, méthodes, premiers résultats

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