Europe-wide public preferences for plankton-based ecosystem services and marine biodiversity from a series of Deliberative Monetary Valuation workshops

The data were collected as part of the Horizon Europe project BIOcean5D – Marine Biodiversity Assessment and Prediction Across Spatial, Temporal and Human Scales. The aim of the study was to elicit public preferences for marine biodiversity and ecosystem services, with a particular focus on plankton. This dataset comprises responses from a series of Deliberative Monetary Valuation workshops held across Europe, along with the corresponding supplementary material. The responses encompass a range of data, including socio-demographic information, personal characteristics, beliefs, prior knowledge, preferences derived from a Discrete Choice Experiment, and the associated motivations of each respondent. In total, 15 workshops were conducted between October 2023 and February 2024 in the following locations: Poland (Poznan and Sopot), Italy (Padova and Chioggia), the Basque Country (Vitoria-Gasteiz and Bilbao), Germany (Bremerhaven and Hannover), and France (Rennes and Brest).