But in England and Wales the folktale is little cultivated, preference having been given to legends and ballads.
This study measures the public preferences for cultivated land protection as a case study of Wenling City, China, using the choice experiment (CE) approach.
The study results can contribute to the literature on comparing the willingness to pay estimates derived from the CVM and CE and can help improve our current understandings of local public's preferences for cultivated land protection.
This study is to examine the public's preferences for cultivated land protection in Wenling City of China using a dichotomous choice contingent valuation method (CVM) and a choice experiment method.
Also, plateau goats from Andremba showed a certain preference for cultivated and abandoned cropland and the settlement area throughout the year, which is indicated by the high proportion of feeding time spent on these LCC as compared to the proportion of total time spent on the respective LCC.
Our results suggest that a stronger preference for cultivated fruits by carnivores may occur in anthropogenic areas, regardless their abundance and distribution [15].
Our results suggest that a strong preference for cultivated fruits by carnivores may influence their spatial foraging behaviour and lower their dispersal services to wild species.
Our results support the inter-fruit type competition hypothesis in anthropogenic areas [15], which state that the preference of cultivated fruits by carnivores can result in a reduction of their dispersal services to wild species.
These differences, collectively called the domestication syndrome, result from selection over several thousands of years of adaptation to cultivated environments, human nutritional requirements and preferences (Hawkes, 1983).
The study concludes that CE is a reliable tool in the analysis of respondent preferences for the development of suitable cultivated land protection schemes in China.
The pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, has diversified into numerous genetically distinct host races that specialize (i.e. have increased preference for, and performance on) on a variety of cultivated herbaceous legumes, including economically important crops such as alfalfa and clover [ 53- 60].
