TY - JOUR
T1 - Replacement Cost Valuation of Northern Pintail (Anas acuta) Subsistence Harvest in Arctic and Sub-Arctic North America
AU - Goldstein, Joshua H.
AU - Thogmartin, Wayne E.
AU - Bagstad, Kenneth J.
AU - Dubovsky, James A.
AU - Mattsson, Brady J.
AU - Semmens, Darius J.
AU - López-Hoffman, Laura
AU - Diffendorfer, James E.
N1 - Funding Information:
Joshua H. Goldstein and Wayne E. Thogmartin share lead authorship. This work was conducted as part of the Animal Migration and Spatial Subsidies: Establishing a Framework for Conservation Markets working group supported by the John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey. The findings and conclusions in this article do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Use of trade or product names does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. We appreciate constructive comments provided by two anonymous reviewers, as well as comments on an earlier draft provided by P.J. Heglund and R.W. Merideth.
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - Migratory species provide economically beneficial ecosystem services to people throughout their range, yet often, information is lacking about the magnitude and spatial distribution of these benefits at regional scales. We conducted a case study for Northern Pintails (hereafter pintail) in which we quantified regional and sub-regional economic values of subsistence harvest to indigenous communities in Arctic and sub-Arctic North America. As a first step, we used the replacement cost method to quantify the cost of replacing pintail subsistence harvest with the most similar commercially available protein (chicken). For an estimated annual subsistence harvest of ~15,000 pintail, our mean estimate of the total replacement cost was ~$63,000 yr-1 ($2010 USD), with sub-regional values ranging from $263 yr-1 to $21,930 yr-1. Our results provide an order-of-magnitude, conservative estimate of one component of the regional ecosystem-service values of pintails, providing perspective on how spatially explicit values can inform migratory species conservation.
AB - Migratory species provide economically beneficial ecosystem services to people throughout their range, yet often, information is lacking about the magnitude and spatial distribution of these benefits at regional scales. We conducted a case study for Northern Pintails (hereafter pintail) in which we quantified regional and sub-regional economic values of subsistence harvest to indigenous communities in Arctic and sub-Arctic North America. As a first step, we used the replacement cost method to quantify the cost of replacing pintail subsistence harvest with the most similar commercially available protein (chicken). For an estimated annual subsistence harvest of ~15,000 pintail, our mean estimate of the total replacement cost was ~$63,000 yr-1 ($2010 USD), with sub-regional values ranging from $263 yr-1 to $21,930 yr-1. Our results provide an order-of-magnitude, conservative estimate of one component of the regional ecosystem-service values of pintails, providing perspective on how spatially explicit values can inform migratory species conservation.
KW - economics
KW - ecosystem services
KW - migratory species
KW - spatial subsidies
KW - subsistence harvest
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U2 - 10.1080/10871209.2014.917345
DO - 10.1080/10871209.2014.917345
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904215507
SN - 1087-1209
VL - 19
SP - 347
EP - 354
JO - Human Dimensions of Wildlife
JF - Human Dimensions of Wildlife
IS - 4
ER -