biodiversity. Ecologists have shown that biodiversity loss results in lower plant productivity, while agricultural economists have … linked biodiversity loss on farms with increasing variability of crop yields, and sometimes lower mean yields. In this paper … agriculture, with a focus on how the loss of biodiversity affects food production. We employ a quantitative, structurally …

changes in existence. Moreover, when applied to biodiversity, the concept of existence value gives rise to an instance of a … biodiversity cannot have existence value; yet the results of empirical studies suggest that people in stated preference studies can …

evoke both causes. Largely due to biodiversity's high complexity in meaning and morale and a missing societal inclination to …