Value of Biodiversity on Patagonian Rangeland: Estimation via a Hedonic Price Index
Plant diversity has long been linked to an increase in ecosystem productivity and function, but concrete examples in which ecosystem services are linked to diversity at the scale at which management decisions are taken are rare. We specifically tested for a correlation between plant diversity and pr...
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| author | Duarte Guardia, Sandra Peri, Pablo Luis Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José Lasagno, Romina Gisele Lencinas, María Vanessa Thomas, Evert Ladd, Brenton |
| author_browse | Duarte Guardia, Sandra Ladd, Brenton Lasagno, Romina Gisele Lencinas, María Vanessa Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José Peri, Pablo Luis Thomas, Evert |
| author_facet | Duarte Guardia, Sandra Peri, Pablo Luis Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José Lasagno, Romina Gisele Lencinas, María Vanessa Thomas, Evert Ladd, Brenton |
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| description | Plant diversity has long been linked to an increase in ecosystem productivity and function, but concrete examples in which ecosystem services are linked to diversity at the scale at which management decisions are taken are rare. We specifically tested for a correlation between plant diversity and provisioning ecosystem services estimated via the potential to produce meat and wool. We also tested whether higher levels of plant diversity conferred higher levels of ecosystem resistance to global change drivers, measured as the ability to sustain productivity across time. This was achieved by analyzing the interactive effects of a range of environmental variables on annual net primary production in a network of long-term biodiversity plots in Southern Patagonia. We found evidence of a positive correlation between plant diversity and plant productivity, which we relate to the ability to produce wool and meat from livestock. We also found evidence of a link between ecosystem resistance and diversity, though the effect was modest. The instrumental (economic) valuation presented doesn’t account for the full range of values that rangeland in southern Patagonia generates. Nevertheless, these calculations do provide a starting point for broadening the discussion around the importance and value of natural capital in southern Patagonia. The results are consistent with theory and suggest that plant diversity has instrumental and monetary value as well as insurance value that may increase the resistance of rangeland ecosystems to global change drivers. |
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| spelling | INTA164542024-01-05T13:09:53Z Value of Biodiversity on Patagonian Rangeland: Estimation via a Hedonic Price Index Duarte Guardia, Sandra Peri, Pablo Luis Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José Lasagno, Romina Gisele Lencinas, María Vanessa Thomas, Evert Ladd, Brenton Grasslands Biodiversity Species Diversity Ecosystem Services Production Meat Wool Ecosystem Resilience Climate Change Environmental Factors Net Primary Productivity Praderas Biodiversidad Diversidad de Especies Servicios de los Ecosistemas Producción Carne Lana Resiliencia de los Ecosistemas Cambio Climático Factores Ambientales Productividad Primaria Neta Hedonic Price Index PEBANPA Network Management Decisions Índice de Precios Hedónicos Red PEBANPA Decisiones de Gestión Región Patagónica Plant diversity has long been linked to an increase in ecosystem productivity and function, but concrete examples in which ecosystem services are linked to diversity at the scale at which management decisions are taken are rare. We specifically tested for a correlation between plant diversity and provisioning ecosystem services estimated via the potential to produce meat and wool. We also tested whether higher levels of plant diversity conferred higher levels of ecosystem resistance to global change drivers, measured as the ability to sustain productivity across time. This was achieved by analyzing the interactive effects of a range of environmental variables on annual net primary production in a network of long-term biodiversity plots in Southern Patagonia. We found evidence of a positive correlation between plant diversity and plant productivity, which we relate to the ability to produce wool and meat from livestock. We also found evidence of a link between ecosystem resistance and diversity, though the effect was modest. The instrumental (economic) valuation presented doesn’t account for the full range of values that rangeland in southern Patagonia generates. Nevertheless, these calculations do provide a starting point for broadening the discussion around the importance and value of natural capital in southern Patagonia. The results are consistent with theory and suggest that plant diversity has instrumental and monetary value as well as insurance value that may increase the resistance of rangeland ecosystems to global change drivers. EEA Santa Cruz Fil: Duarte Guardia, Sandra. Universidad Científica del Sur. Escuela de Agroforestería; Perú. Fil: Duarte Guardia, Sandra. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral; Argentina. Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Santa Cruz; Argentina. Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral; Argentina. Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Fil: Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC); Argentina. Fil: Lasagno, Romina Gisele. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Santa Cruz; Argentina. Fil: Lencinas, María Vanessa. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC); Argentina. Fil: Thomas, Evert. Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT; Perú. Fil: Ladd, Brenton. Universidad Científica del Sur. Escuela de Agroforestería; Perú. 2024-01-05T13:01:07Z 2024-01-05T13:01:07Z 2024-01 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/16454 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550742423001215 Duarte-Guardia S.; Peri P.L.; Martínez Pastur G.; Lasagno R.; Lencinas M.V.; Thomas E.; Ladd B. (2024) Value of Biodiversity on Patagonian Rangeland: Estimation via a Hedonic Price Index. Rangeland Ecology & Management 92: 122–128. 1550-7424 (print) 1551-5028 (online) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2023.10.005 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Elsevier Rangeland Ecology & Management 92 : 122–128. ( January 2024) |
| spellingShingle | Grasslands Biodiversity Species Diversity Ecosystem Services Production Meat Wool Ecosystem Resilience Climate Change Environmental Factors Net Primary Productivity Praderas Biodiversidad Diversidad de Especies Servicios de los Ecosistemas Producción Carne Lana Resiliencia de los Ecosistemas Cambio Climático Factores Ambientales Productividad Primaria Neta Hedonic Price Index PEBANPA Network Management Decisions Índice de Precios Hedónicos Red PEBANPA Decisiones de Gestión Región Patagónica Duarte Guardia, Sandra Peri, Pablo Luis Martínez Pastur, Guillermo José Lasagno, Romina Gisele Lencinas, María Vanessa Thomas, Evert Ladd, Brenton Value of Biodiversity on Patagonian Rangeland: Estimation via a Hedonic Price Index |
| title | Value of Biodiversity on Patagonian Rangeland: Estimation via a Hedonic Price Index |
| title_full | Value of Biodiversity on Patagonian Rangeland: Estimation via a Hedonic Price Index |
| title_fullStr | Value of Biodiversity on Patagonian Rangeland: Estimation via a Hedonic Price Index |
| title_full_unstemmed | Value of Biodiversity on Patagonian Rangeland: Estimation via a Hedonic Price Index |
| title_short | Value of Biodiversity on Patagonian Rangeland: Estimation via a Hedonic Price Index |
| title_sort | value of biodiversity on patagonian rangeland estimation via a hedonic price index |
| topic | Grasslands Biodiversity Species Diversity Ecosystem Services Production Meat Wool Ecosystem Resilience Climate Change Environmental Factors Net Primary Productivity Praderas Biodiversidad Diversidad de Especies Servicios de los Ecosistemas Producción Carne Lana Resiliencia de los Ecosistemas Cambio Climático Factores Ambientales Productividad Primaria Neta Hedonic Price Index PEBANPA Network Management Decisions Índice de Precios Hedónicos Red PEBANPA Decisiones de Gestión Región Patagónica |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/16454 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550742423001215 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2023.10.005 |
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