46,197 rated or chosen profiles from 1,711 respondents, in up to 9 tasks of 3 profiles varying on 5 attributes.

About this table

Description	Choice experiment on the management of a new woodland in Great Britain (winter wave): 1,711 adults chose in nine tasks among Option A, Option B and No change, described by the variety of sounds, colours and smells, the amount of deadwood and a yearly council tax increase.
Reference	King, P., Davies, Z., et al. (2026). Replication materials: Stated preferences for the colours, smells, and sounds of biodiversity [Data set]. Zenodo.
DOI	10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108410
Licence	MIT License
Source data	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20645896

Notes

Conjoint table (irw_conjoint_2). Choice among woodland-management Option A, Option B and No change (nine tasks, two blocks) described by the variety of sounds, colours and smells (low/medium/high), deadwood per hectare and a yearly council tax increase for ten years; No change is shown with its own levels (low, low, low, no deadwood, GBP 0), so it is a profile and there is no opt-out. Level wording is from the questionnaire; the deadwood unit is not stated. Winter wave only.

These notes describe the source data, which the IRW reproduces as released. All notes are listed on the Data Notes page.

Size and shape

Respondents	1,711
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)	46,197
Tasks per respondent (most)	9
Profiles per task	3
Attributes	5
Tasks with no profile chosen	0

Design

Topic	climate energy environment
A profile represents	policy
Country	GB
Language shown	en
Language of stored levels	en
Randomization restrictions	unknown
Task order	recorded in the deposit
Profile position	recorded in the deposit

Outcomes:

choice	Which ONE of the above choices would you pick for the new woodland? (Option A / Option B / No change) [choice, forced]

Columns

attr_colour_varietyattr_council_tax_increaseattr_deadwoodattr_smell_varietyattr_sound_varietychoicecov_age_groupcov_areacov_countrycov_educationcov_household_incomeidprofiletasktrial_block

The layout (one row per respondent, task and profile; choice/rating outcomes; attr_ columns holding each attribute level as displayed) is defined in the IRW conjoint standard. What the outcomes asked is under Design above.

Get the data

Download CSVno account needed Browse on Redivisexplore and query Croissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("king_2026_biodiversity_woodland", source = "conj")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("king_2026_biodiversity_woodland", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{King_2025, title={Stated preferences for the colours, smells, and sounds of biodiversity}, volume={227}, ISSN={0921-8009}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108410}, DOI={10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108410}, journal={Ecological Economics}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={King, Peter M. and Dallimer, Martin and Lundhede, Thomas and Austen, Gail E. and Fisher, Jessica C. and Irvine, Katherine N. and Fish, Robert D. and Davies, Zoe G.}, year={2025}, month=Jan, pages={108410} }

Version and provenance

IRW version	v584
Redivis dataset	irw_conjoint_2 v1.4
Redivis dataset DOI	10.57761/hk97-wv30
Manifest pin for this IRW version	v1.4
Metadata source	irw_meta v44.0