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 …

Abstract The European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has failed to achieve its
aim of preserving European farmland biodiversity, despite massive investment in subsidies …

Green Infrastructure (GI) is defined as a network of natural and semi-natural areas that is
strategically designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services and to …

Assessments of land-system change have dominantly focused on conversions among broad
land-use categories, whereas intensity changes within these categories have received less …

Farmlands are currently among the dominant uses of the land. When managed under low‐
input farming systems, farmlands are associated with diverse cultural and natural heritages …

Reconciling biodiversity conservation with increasing demand for agricultural production is a
major challenge. A long-running discourse that addresses this challenge is the land-sparing …

Agricultural intensification drives biodiversity loss and shapes farmers' profit, but the role of
legacy effects and detailed quantification of ecological–economic trade-offs are largely …

Biodiversity of European cultural landscapes is threatened by land abandonment and
intensification. While the conservation benefits of traditional management practices have …

In biodiversity conservation of agriculture‐driven landscapes, grasslands have an
outstanding importance; their conservation became a top priority both in research and …

Eastern European countries are considered a stronghold for the continent's farmland
biodiversity. The abundance of farmland birds is one important element of this biodiversity …