The manager dilemma: Optimal management of an ecosystem service in heterogeneous exploited landscapes

- We model the provision of an ecosystem service by a metapopulation on a landscape.
- We optimize the management of the exploitation yield and the ecosystem service.
- Benefits are optimized for intermediate surfaces of exploitation.
- This trade-off depends on ecological traits and on the degree of human disturbance.
- The optimal management is improved when human activities are spatially fragmented.