Divers willingness to pay for biodiversity could help conservation efforts
Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
New research shows divers were willing to pay to improve the reef's attributes and were able to differentiate and rank their preferences of biodiversity, numbers of fish and corals, coral species richness, fish species richness, coral size, coral abundance, and fish abundance. Respondents ranked biodiversity as the most desirable value, while fish abundance was the least important.