Agencies charged with nature conservation and protecting built-assets from fire face a policy dilemma because management that protects assets can have adverse impacts on biodiversity. Although conservation is often a policy goal, protecting built-assets usually takes precedence in fire...

Highlights• Private benefits of natural capital on farmland are estimated using quantile regression with 28,460 farmland parcel sales.• Estimates of private benefits associated with natural capital on farms vary significantly across land value quantiles; benefits were highest for higher...

An important goal in nutritional ecology is to understand what governs the diet selection of free-living animals. Relevant information is however scarce because of the considerable challenges of collecting and interpreting such data. Here we use recent advances in nutritional theory to analyze...