Migratory species provide ecosystem goods and services throughout their annual cycles, often over long distances. Designing effective conservation solutions for migratory species requires knowledge of both species ecology and the socioeconomic context of their migrations. We present a framework built around the concept that migratory species act as carriers, delivering benefit flows to people throughout their annual cycle that are supported by the network of ecosystems upon which the species depend. We apply this framework to the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) migration of eastern North America by calculating their spatial subsidies. Spatial subsidies are the net ecosystem service flows throughout a species’...
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Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
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Tags: Canada,
Mexico,
Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
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World Heritage,
conservation investment,
ecosystem services,
migratory routes,
monarch butterfly,
socioeconomic,
spatial subsidy,
willingness to pay, Fewer tags
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