Two factors have elevated recent academic and policy interest in tropical deforestation: first,
the realization that it is a major contributor to climate change; and second, a revolution in …

Conventional agri-environmental schemes (AES) have been criticized for failing to exploit
conservation synergies that could be obtained from spatial coordination of conservation …

Land-use change has a significant impact on the world's ecosystems. Changes in the extent
and composition of forests, grasslands, wetlands and other ecosystems have large impacts …

Protected areas (PAs) and payments for ecosystem services (PES) are the top two
mechanisms available for countries to achieve international REDD agreements, yet there …

Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 406–414 Abstract Incentive payments to private landowners
provide a common strategy to conserve biodiversity and enhance the supply of goods and …

Incentive schemes are increasingly used to motivate the supply of ecosystem services from
agro-ecosystems through changes in land use and management. Here, I synthesize the …

Many ecosystem services are public goods whose provision depends on the spatial pattern
of land use. The pattern of land use is often determined by the decisions of multiple private …

Over the past few decades, a multi-disciplinary research community has documented the
goods and services provided by ecosystems in specific sites scattered across the world. This …

Connected habitats are ecologically more valuable than isolated habitats for many species.
A key challenge when designing payments for biodiversity in fragmented landscapes is to …

Agri‐environment schemes (AES) compensate farmers for land use measures that are costly
to them but beneficial to biodiversity and the environment. We present an ecological …