Data release for Ecosystem service flows from a migratory species: spatial subsidies of the northern pintail
Description
Migratory species provide important benefits to society, but their cross-border conservation poses serious challenges. By quantifying the economic value of ecosystem services (ES) provided across a species’ range and ecological data on a species’ habitat dependence, we estimate spatial subsidies–how different regions support ES provided by a species across its range. We illustrate this method for migratory Northern Pintail ducks in North America. Pintails support over $101 million 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 ES and provide information to aid in their transboundary conservation.
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/F7Q23ZFC |
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5a13363de4b09fc93dce650e.xml |
Tags
- canada
- migration
- species-conservation
- united-states
- northern-pintail-duck
- usgs-5a13363de4b09fc93dce650e
- telecoupling
- spatial-subsidies
- transborder-conservation