Spatial patterns of county-level arable land productive-capacity and its coordination with land-use intensity in mainland China

S Ye, S Ren, C Song, C Cheng, S Shen, J Yang… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Evaluation of arable land ecosystem services capacity and arable land-use
intensity (ALUI) is important for recognising key regional factors that impact arable land …

Comparing effectiveness and return on investment of action‐and results‐based agri‐environmental payments in S witzerland

D Wuepper, R Huber - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Agri‐environmental schemes are an important policy tool to foster agricultural sustainability.
We assess the effectiveness and return on investment of two different schemes designed to …

Housing or habitat: what drives patterns of avian species richness in urbanized landscapes?

JE Humphrey, A Haslem, AF Bennett - Landscape Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Context Conservation of biodiversity in cities depends on ecologically sensitive urban
planning, informed by an understanding of patterns of species distributions and richness …

Spatial scale mismatches in the EU agri-biodiversity conservation policy. the case for a shift to landscape-scale design

FL Falco, E Feitelson, T Dayan - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agriculture is a major driver of the ongoing biodiversity decline, demanding an urgent
transition towards a system that reconciles productivity and profitability with nature …

Land use effect on butterfly alpha and beta diversity in the Eastern Himalaya, India

K Sharma, BK Acharya, G Sharma, D Valente… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Conservation of biodiversity in agroecosystems is a global challenge as conversion of forest
to agroecosystems has been one of the major causes for biodiversity loss through habitat …

[HTML][HTML] Does agri-environmental management enhance biodiversity and multiple ecosystem services?: A farm-scale experiment

JM Bullock, ME McCracken, MJ Bowes… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2021 - Elsevier
Agri-environmental management has been promoted as an approach to enhance delivery of
multiple ecosystem services. Most agri-environment agreements include several actions that …

Ecological restoration of agricultural land can improve its contribution to economic development

AC Newton, PM Evans, SCL Watson, LE Ridding… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Given the negative environmental impacts of intensive agriculture, there is an urgent need to
reduce the impact of food production on biodiversity. Ecological restoration of farmland …

Increasing the proportion and quality of land under agri-environment schemes promotes birds and butterflies at the landscape scale

S Zingg, E Ritschard, R Arlettaz, JY Humbert - Biological conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
The intensification of agricultural practices that Western nations have experienced after
World War II has led to an alarming decline in farmland biodiversity. With the aim of stopping …

Competition and facilitation effects of semi-natural habitats drive total insect and pollinator abundance in flower strips

K Schoch, M Tschumi, S Lutter, H Ramseier… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Flower strips are an effective agri-environmental measure to promote functional biodiversity
and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. In particular, tailored annual flower strips …

Coupling input and output intensity to explore the sustainable agriculture intensification path in mainland China

S Ye, J Wang, J Jiang, P Gao, C Song - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024 - Elsevier
Sustainable intensification (SI) of agriculture is widely regarded as an important way to
alleviate the contradiction between the food gap and ecosystem health. Correlate input …