As absentee landownership continues to increase in many regions of Oceania and the world, there is a growing need to better understand the behaviours and values of this landholder group. The increase in absentee landholdership can impact the provision of ecosystem services, as well as alter the rural socio-cultural fabric; the values, beliefs, knowledge types and social connections amongst landholders in rural communities. Consequently, this presents challenges to natural resource management (NRM) practitioners seeking to implement better resource management strategies across property boundaries. This case study research on the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, aims to better understand the characteristics of absentee landholders, including their motivations for holding land, their existing levels of knowledge concerning land management practices, and their views and preferences for cross-property collaborations and, in turn, explore the role they could have in the delivery of ecosystem services.

Our results show that recreation and amenity relating to private cultural services are the main drivers of land acquisition and motivation for land use by absentee landholders in the region. Cross-property collaborations that absentee landholders are most interested in are related to the maintenance of supporting and regulating services, particularly through weed management and pest animal control. An important implication of these findings is that the facilitation of cross-property collaboration, by accommodating for the growing heterogeneity in values and beliefs, can become a mechanism for enhancing the delivery of public-benefit ecosystem services from absentee-held land.

随着大洋洲乃至世界许多地区缺勤的土地所有权不断增加，人们越来越需要更好地了解这一土地所有者群体的行为和价值。缺勤的土地所有权的增加会影响生态系统服务的提供，并改变农村的社会文化结构；农村社区土地所有者之间的价值观，信仰，知识类型和社会联系。因此，这对寻求在财产边界上实施更好的资源管理策略的自然资源管理（NRM）从业人员提出了挑战。这项针对澳大利亚新南威尔士州中部高原的案例研究旨在更好地了解缺席土地所有者的特征，包括他们持有土地的动机，

我们的结果表明，与私人文化服务相关的娱乐和舒适是该地区缺席土地所有者征地和土地使用动机的主要驱动力。缺席土地所有者最感兴趣的跨产业合作与维持支持和调节服务有关，特别是通过杂草管理和害虫动物控制。这些发现的重要含义是，通过适应不断增长的价值观和信念的异质性，促进跨产业合作，可以成为增强从缺勤者拥有的土地上提供公共利益生态系统服务的机制。