payments for conservation of endangered species in real landscapes. The approach is used to develop a cost …-effective compensation payment scheme for conservation of an endangered butterfly species (Maculinea teleius) protected by the EU Habitats … Directive in the region of Landau, Germany. The economic model determines the costs of relevant conservation measures mowing …

Flexible conservation management, where measures are selected in each decision period and depending on the current … conservation strategies the additional costs that arise only in flexible strategies have usually been ignored. In this paper we … present a framework to integrate these 'costs of flexible management' into the evaluation of flexible conservation strategies …