The dramatic increase in soil degradation in the last few decades has led to the need to
identify methods to define not only soil quality but also, in a holistic approach, soil health. In …

Agricultural intensification decreases the heterogeneity of the landscape and leads to a
decline in hedgerows. As hedgerows provide important habitats for many taxa, this …

Central to the agroecological transition is biodiversity, which, once restored in
agroecosystems, should provide multiple ecosystem services that result from the interactions …

Hedgerows play important roles in agricultural landscapes and they increase biodiversity by
providing habitat refugia for species sensitive to agricultural disturbance. We have studied …

Fragments of woodland represent important natural and semi-natural elements that
contribute to ecological stability and biodiversity in a landscape. In the Czech Republic, they …

Agricultural land abandonment is an increasing concern in the EU, especially in
Mediterranean regions where traditional perennial crops like olive groves are left …

A direct, positive correlation between biodiversity and the traditional agricultural landscape
is evident on the national or regional scale. It is mostly conditioned by higher landscape …

Fragments of woodland fulfil many irreplaceable functions in the agricultural landscape
including being the main source of biodiversity of soil invertebrates. Due to intensive farming …

In the intensely agriculturally used landscape of Haná, small forest units are among the
elements that significantly increase the heterogeneity of the otherwise monotonous …

In the intensely agriculturally used landscape of Haná, small forest units are among the
elements that significantly increase the heterogeneity of the otherwise monotonous …