Agriculture's reliance on ecosystem services creates economic and ecological interdependencies between crop production … conditions: initial landscape, crop and pollinator characteristics. As a benchmark, the landscape configuration from landscape …-scale management, but also that all farmers would benefit from it (given dependence of crop yields on ecosystem services). However, we …

unlikely to result in self-sustaining ecosystems. Restoring sustainable ecological processes like pollination is a more …. Pollination in the early years following planting may not be as affected by details of restoration design as other ecological …

million), crop vulnerability ratio (21 percent), and pollination’s contribution to agricultural production value (5 percent …The production of many crops depends on biotic pollination. As pollinator populations decline, assessments of the … potential consequential loss of economic value are critical. We estimate the economic value of pollination services ($608 …

heterogeneity. These include spatial homogeneity or continuous distance decay. Despite their ubiquity in the valuation literature …

landscapes in the UK. Environmental valuation techniques are becoming an increasingly important tool in the development of … underpins many of the valuation techniques commonly adopted. They identify that heuristic rules, experience and memory can all … a number of ways with implications for the development of future valuation studies. This thesis concludes with a …