Effectiveness of Tradable Permits for the Conservation of Metacommunities With Two Competing Species

摘要: Abstract Market-based instruments are gaining relevance for biodiversity conservation, since they promise higher cost-effectiveness than other like planning. Previous studies have analysed the effectiveness of market-based on single or multiple but independent species. On example tradable land-use permits we address an important issue first time: conservation interacting species (metacommunities). We consider two competing where superior competitor locally replaces inferior competitor. Both structured as metapopulations, i.e. can go extinct while empty habitats be recolonised by local populations neighbouring habitats. Combining a spatially explicit and dynamic ecological-economic simulation model with cluster analysis investigate how coexistence both depends design permit scheme, effective scheme (i.e. that maximises coexistence) biological characteristics show designs may ineffective regard to strongly relative performances their colonisation abilities extinction risks.