The effectiveness of conservation initiatives on private lands in the southern United States plays an important role in improving provision of ecosystem services and mitigating negative environmental impacts. However, participation in conservation efforts is in part affected by landowner concern about environmental issues. This study used a seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) to quantify the impacts of local environmental conditions (e.g., air and water pollution, population density, and land cover type), private land attributes and sociodemographic factors on landowner ecosystem service and environmental concerns. The study involved a mail survey of private landowners in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley and East Gulf Coastal Plain sub-geographies of the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative. At least 37% of landowners were extremely concerned about drinking water quality, drinking water quantity, soil erosion, loss of wildlife habitat, and loss of open spaces. Local environmental conditions and sociodemographic factors were only marginally related to landowner ecosystem service and environmental concerns, although these factors could affect landowner environmental attitudes, personal health and outdoor activities. Private land attributes, such as property size and landownership objectives, strongly influenced landowner concerns about environmental issues where landowners with larger agricultural land parcels, and who owned land for profit making and provision of ecosystem services were more concerned about environmental issues than other landowners. Conservation policies should focus not only on activities that address ecosystem service and environmental issues that are of concern to landowners but also help them attain their landownership objectives because such approach is more likely to increase their participation in conservation practices.

在美国南部，对私有土地进行保护的举措的有效性在改善生态系统服务的提供和减轻负面环境影响方面发挥着重要作用。但是，参与保护工作的一部分受到土地所有者对环境问题的关注的影响。这项研究使用了看似无关的回归（SUR）来量化当地环境条件（例如空气和水污染，人口密度和土地覆盖类型），私有土地属性和社会人口统计学因素对土地所有者生态系统服务和环境问题的影响。这项研究包括对密西西比冲积山谷和墨西哥湾沿岸平原和奥扎克斯景观保护合作社东湾沿岸平原子地理区域的私人土地所有者进行的邮件调查。至少37％的土地所有者非常关注饮用水水质，饮用水量，土壤侵蚀，野生动植物栖息地的丧失和开放空间的丧失。尽管这些因素可能会影响土地所有者的环境态度，个人健康和户外活动，但当地的环境条件和社会人口统计学因素与土地所有者的生态系统服务和环境问题之间的关系很小。私有土地的属性，例如财产规模和土地所有权目标，在很大程度上影响了土地所有者对环境问题的关注，在这些问题中，拥有较大农业土地的土地所有者以及拥有土地以营利和提供生态系统服务的土地所有者比其他土地所有者更加关注环境问题。