Open AccessON THE MANAGEMENT OF INTERCONNECTED WILDLIFE POPULATIONS
Author(s) -
CHEN WENTING,
SKONHOFT ANDERS
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
natural resource modeling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.28
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1939-7445
pISSN - 0890-8575
DOI - 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2012.00117.x
Subject(s) - duopoly , interdependence , license , wildlife , monopoly , natural resource economics , stackelberg competition , business , economics , microeconomics , industrial organization , ecology , cournot competition , computer science , biology , political science , law , operating system
Economic interdependency of wildlife or fish stocks is usually attributed to ecological interdependency, such as predator–prey and competitive relationships, or to density‐dependent migration of species between different areas. This paper provides another channel for economic interdependency of wildlife where density‐ in dependent migration and market price interaction affect the management strategies among different landowners. Management is studied under three market conditions for selling hunting licenses: price taking behavior, monopoly market, and duopoly market. Harvesting of the Scandinavian moose is used as an example. The paper provides several results on how economic interdependency works through the migration pattern. When a duopoly market is introduced, hunting license price interaction among the landowners plays an additional role in determining the optimal harvesting strategy.