Traditional rural landscapes host a biocultural heritage acquired by rural societies,
developed in a secular adaptation with nature. Hedgerows play a key role in preserving …

A wide body of research in recent years has studied either green infrastructures as providers
of multiple ecosystem services, especially at the urban level, or ecological corridors and the …

Bio-economic models can be used to assess the impact of policy and environmental
measures through economic and environmental indicators. Focusing on agricultural …

In Europe, monitoring indicates that farmland bird populations are declining. Numerous
studies at different spatial scales have considered bird ecology in farmland, but viticulture …

Although the importance of hedgerows for sustainable agriculture and conservation of rural
biodiversity is increasingly being recognized, obtaining insight into the spatial and temporal …

Hedgerows are key features in agricultural landscapes performing diverse functions that are
both economically and ecologically significant. Here, we quantify how the characteristics of a …

Transitioning towards agroecology involves the integration of biodiversity based ecosystem
services into farming systems: for example, relying on biological pest control rather than …

Hedgerows are an important component of the cultural landscape and may have an
invaluable role in maintaining biological diversity. Adjacent land use potentially has an …

Hedgerows with pollarded trees are still emblematically shaping many agricultural
landscapes in Western Europe; they are part of our heritage but their future is uncertain due …

Landscapes change through a combination of natural and social processes. In agricultural
landscapes, decisions on landscape structures and functions–here termed landscape …