Over half of the European landscape is under agricultural management and has been for
millennia. Many species and ecosystems of conservation concern in Europe depend on …

Sustainable agrarian development has emerged as a key agenda in many recent global
development dialogues, owing to its intimate links with rural development. Agrarian …

Growing evidence for declines in wild bees calls for the development and implementation of
effective mitigation measures. Enhancing floral resources is a widely accepted measure for …

Agri‐environment management (AEM) started in the 1980s in Europe to mitigate biodiversity
decline, but the effectiveness of AEM has been questioned. We hypothesize that this is …

Declining pollinator populations have caused concern about consequences for food
production, and have initiated an increasing number of initiatives that aim to mitigate …

Restoration and maintenance of habitat diversity have been suggested as conservation
priorities in farmed landscapes, but how this should be achieved and at what scale are …

Bird populations are identified as important biodiversity indicators, so collecting reliable
population data is important to ecologists and scientists. However, existing manual …

Background Habitat degradation is known to have a major impact on the composition of bird
communities, yet how these communities recover following such disturbance is less …

Across Europe, patches of un‐cropped land (field margins, fallows, etc.) have been
established and managed as part of agri‐environment schemes (AES) to counteract the …

Agri-environmental measures such as wildflower strips and green covers are a key
instrument to halt biodiversity loss and enhance the delivery of biodiversity-based …