Multi-species, multi-country analysis reveals North Americans are willing to pay for transborder migratory species conservation, data

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). These data include characteristics of were conservation payments might occur, of...

Categories: Data, Data Release - In Progress; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Canada, Ecology, Information Science, Mexican free-tailed bats, Mexico, All tags... North America, United States, Wildlife Biology, biota, contingent value, migratory species, northern pintail ducks, transboundary conservation, willingness to pay, Fewer tags