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Evaluating the Return in Ecosystem Services from Investment in Public Land Acquisitions

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Kovacs, Kent, Polasky, Stephen, Nelson, Erik, Keeler, Bonnie L., Pennington, Derric, Plantinga, Andrew J., and Taff, Steven J.

Abstract:

We evaluate the return on investment (ROI) from public land conservation in the state of Minnesota, USA. We use a spatially-explicit modeling tool, the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), to estimate how changes in land use and land cover (LULC), including public land acquisitions for conservation, influence...

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. Keeler4, Derric Pennington5, Andrew J. Plantinga6, Steven J. Taff2 1 Department of Agricultural