Journal
BIOSCIENCE
Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages 271-281Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2012.62.3.8
Keywords
nongovernmental organization; industrial organization; conservation planning; firm size distribution; conservation finance
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- British Ecological Society
- Natural Environment Research Council
- Royal Society
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Nonprofit organizations play a critical role in efforts to conserve biodiversity. Their success in this regard will be determined in part by how effectively individual nonprofits and the sector as a whole are structured. One of the most fundamental questions about an organization's structure is how large it should be, with the logical counterpart being how concentrated the whole sector should be. We review empirical patterns in the size, concentration, and growth of over 1700 biodiversity-conservation nonprofits registered for tax purposes in the United States within the context of relevant economic theory. Conservation-nonprofit sizes vary by six to seven orders of magnitude and are positively skewed. Larger nonprofits access more revenue streams and hold more of their assets in land and buildings than smaller or midsized nonprofits do. The size of conservation nonprofits varies with the ecological focus of the organization, but the growth rates of nonprofits do not.
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