Intensive agriculture has led to several drawbacks such as biodiversity loss, climate change,
erosion, and pollution of air and water. A potential solution is to implement management …

In extensive low input farming and in agroforestry systems, the importance for biodiversity of
managed productive fields with respect to unmanaged marginal habitats that occupy a low …

Agriculture plays a dual role in the conservation of European biodiversity, as extensive
agricultural lands provide habitats for more than half of Europe's species, but intensification …

Decision-making for nature-friendly land use in farming landscapes requires methods and
indicators for assessing effects on biodiversity. We developed an expert system for including …

Fossil energy input, energy output, and energy use-efficiency (EUE) are important indicators
of the environmental effects, resource consumption and economic performance of farming …

The effect of experimental livestock grazing regimens (4 treatments× 6 replicates) on spiders
via habitat structure and prey abundance was investigated on sub-montane habitats in the …

Farmland is a major land cover type in Europe and Africa and provides habitat for numerous
species. The severe decline in farmland biodiversity of the last decades has been attributed …

Background The reported massive decline of arthropods and particularly of pollinators such
as wild bees, in terms of abundance and richness, is a threat for crop production and wild …

To evaluate progress on political biodiversity objectives, biodiversity monitoring provides
information on whether intended results are being achieved. Despite scientific proof that …

Forty percent of the EU land area is currently considered to be agriculturally managed
(utilised agricultural area–UAA–Eurostat Agricultural Census 2010), and attention to the …