Multi-species, multi-country analysis reveals North Americans are willing to pay for transborder migratory species conservation, code
Dates
Publication Date
2021-09-30
Citation
Thogmartin, W.E., Haefele, M.A., Diffendorfer, J.E., Semmens, D.J., Derbridge, J.J., Huang, T.K., Lien, A., Lopez-Hoffman, L. 2021, Multi-species, multi-country analysis reveals North Americans are willing to pay for transborder migratory species conservation, code: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9CDA1UN.
Summary
Migratory species often provide ecosystem service benefits to people in one country while receiving habitat support in other countries. The multinational cooperation necessary to ensure continued provisioning of these benefits by migrational processes may be informed by understanding the benefits that people in different countries derive from migratory wildlife. We conducted stated preferences surveys to estimate the willingness of respondents from Canada, the U.S., and México to invest in conservation for two migratory species, the northern pintail duck (Anas acuta) and the Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana). This code was used to analyze the project's data.
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Purpose
This script was used to analyze data regarding individual willingness to pay for the conservation of migratory species were gathered to help inform the ecosystem service benefits people in North America receive from migratory species. One country might provide relatively more conservation and management support for a species while another country might receive relatively more of the species’ ecosystem service benefits, leading to regional and national inequity in management responsibility. Sometimes the range of a species includes countries with different standards of living, which can have profound consequences on the conservation and management of migratory species ranging across multiple countries in the course of their annual cycle. Identifying the willingness of the public to pay for the conservation of migratory species helps inform transboundary governance considerations.
