Ecosystem service flows from a migratory species: Spatial subsidies of the northern pintail
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Abstract
Migratory species provide important benefits to society, but their cross-border conservation poses serious challenges. By quantifying the economic value of ecosystem services (ESs) provided across a species’ range and ecological data on a species’ habitat dependence, we estimate spatial subsidies—how different regions support ESs provided by a species across its range. We illustrate this method for migratory northern pintail ducks in North America. Pintails support over \$101 million USD 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 ESs and provide information to aid in their transboundary conservation.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Ecosystem service flows from a migratory species: Spatial subsidies of the northern pintail |
| Series title | Ambio |
| DOI | 10.1007/s13280-018-1049-4 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year Published | 2019 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Contributing office(s) | Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis |
| Description | 13 p. |
| First page | 61 |
| Last page | 73 |
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