Perceptions of ecosystem services: Comparing socio-cultural and environmental influences
Fig 1
Study region and sampling design: A) Climate zones based on mean annual air temperature (reference period 1981–2010, DWD), B) land-use zones are based on CORINE Land Cover 2012 C) Sampling gradient shown for the 60 focal quadrants with filled colour from A) and border colour from B). Locations of surveys are shown for farmers (orange triangles: on-site locations of Offices of Food, Agriculture and Forestry; grey regions: online distribution via Offices and Agricultural Associations), foresters (online distribution via Offices and Forestry Associations to private and corporate foresters; 20 state foresters per climate zone were addressed via the Bavarian State Forestry BaySF, not depicted), citizens (black circles, urban quadrants with r = 1.5 km, non-urban quadrants r = 3 km to account for different population densities; orange hatches: location of editorial offices of newspapers that invited readers to participate in the survey via articles, r = 10 km is not true to scale of the newspapers’ range of influence); nature managers were contacted independent of their location within the study region and are thus not shown in C. D) Location of the study region Bavaria (green), in Germany and Central Europe.