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%T A systematic approach for assessing spatially and temporally differentiated opportunity costs of biodiversity conservation measures in grasslands %A Mewes, Melanie %A Drechsler, Martin %A Johst, Karin %A Sturm, Astrid %A Wätzold, Frank %P 28 %V 15/2013 %D 2013 %K biodiversity conservation; cost-effectiveness; ecological-economic modelling; agri-environment scheme; grassland; DSS-Ecopay %@ 1436-140X %~ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-361677 %X Biodiversity loss in Europe is caused to a large extent by agricultural intensification. To halt this loss and to support species and habitat types in agricultural areas, agri-environment schemes have been introduced in Europe to compensate farmers for (costly) conservation measures. Currently, agri-environment schemes for grassland in general consider only a few conservation measures with fixed dates and a payment for average opportunity costs, e.g. for later mowing. A systematic approach that calculates farmers` opportunity costs in relation to the timing of grassland use is still lacking. We fill this gap by developing a systematic agri-economic cost assessment approach. Our approach is general enough to be applicable on a large spatial scale but can still sensitively differentiate among different timings. Moreover it is straightforward and time-saving enough to be suitable for implementation in regional scale optimisation procedures. We demonstrate this by applying the systematic cost assessment in the decision support software DSS-Ecopay using the example of grassland species and habitats conservation in the German federal state of Saxony. %C DEU %C Leipzig %G en %9 Arbeitspapier %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info