Cost-effective agronomic strategies for restoring biodiversity - a model study based on land-use intensity and landscape structure
Informations
- Funding country
Netherlands- Acronym
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- URL
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- Start date
- 9/1/1999
- End date
- 8/31/2003
- Budget
- -
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other funding | Grant | 9/1/1999 | 8/31/2003 | - |
Abstract
Instruments that link biodiversity to landscape, to select the best options for biodiversity conservation. These options may be used to facilitate the public debate on the kind of landscape the Dutch urbanized population want to have in the future. The approach will be to extend an existing GIS-based model (LARCH-farmland), based on the results of sub-project 1. The model output is a nature conservation quality measure (based on the number of species having a high chance of persisting in that area) that is derived from a function of farming intensity and spatial structure. Furthermore, the model will be extended with a module that calculates the economic cost-effectiveness of the proposed options (in collaboration with sub-project 2), based on the same landscape characteristics. The scientific objectives are: .extension of the LARCH-model for a selection of farmland species with the impact of farming practice on habitat quality and several spatial distribution patterns, and adaptation of the model for implementation of economic impacts of agricultural land-use strategies. .Determining the conservation potential and (in collaboration with sub-project 2) the economic cost-effectiveness of a set of scenarios that differ in land-use intensity and landscape structure.