Accelerated farmland bird population declines in European countries after their recent EU accession

J Reif, A Gamero, A Hološková, A Aunins… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Agricultural intensification is a major driver of global biodiversity loss. In Europe,
intensification progressed over the 20th century and was accelerated by instruments of the …

Using the natural capital framework to integrate biodiversity into sustainable, efficient and equitable environmental-economic decision-making

AR Binner, ET Addicott, B Balmford… - Philosophical …, 2025 - royalsocietypublishing.org
One of Georgina Mace's many transformational research contributions was to provide a
universally applicable framework for incorporating any or all elements and connections of …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review on the effectiveness of crop architecture-related in-field measures for promoting ground-breeding farmland birds

S Blösch, P Batáry, J Zellweger-Fischer… - Journal for Nature …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ground-breeding farmland birds are disproportionately negatively affected by the impact of
agricultural intensification and mostly still dramatically declining in Europe. One main reason …

Spatially targeted nature-based solutions can mitigate climate change and nature loss but require a systems approach

T Finch, RB Bradbury, T Bradfer-Lawrence… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Finite land is under pressure to provide food, timber, human infrastructure, climate change
mitigation, and wildlife habitat. Given the inherent trade-offs associated with land-use …

[HTML][HTML] Are they even there? How agri-environment schemes investments reach their target species in Dutch dairy-farmland, the case of meadow birds

L Barba-Escoto, RA Howison, RW Fokkema… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Agri-environmental schemes (AES) implemented by farmer collectives for meadow bird
protection in The Netherlands create complex landscape mosaics due to the variability of …

Remote sensing reveals scale‐specific effects of forage crop mowing and landscape structure on a declining farmland bird

D Andreatta, G Bazzi, R Nardelli, L Siddi… - Journal of Applied …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The effectiveness of agri‐environment schemes (AESs), the largest conservation‐related
expenditure for farmland biodiversity conservation within the European Union, is often …

A cross-regional analysis of red-backed shrike responses to agri-environmental schemes in Europe

S Roilo, R Spake, JM Bullock… - Environmental Research …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Agri-environmental schemes (AES) are the main policy tool to counteract farmland
biodiversity declines in Europe, but their biodiversity benefit varies across sites and is likely …

[HTML][HTML] Functional responses in habitat selection as a management tool to evaluate agri-environment schemes for farmland birds

R Ogawa, JO Engler, AF Cord - Ecological Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Agri-environment schemes (AES), as part of the European Union's Common
Agricultural Policy, are intended to help prevent the decline of farmland biodiversity …

[PDF][PDF] Action for birds in England

MA Eaton, A Brown, A Evans, DW Gibbons… - British …, 2024 - community.rspb.org.uk
Natural England and the RSPB have collaborated on species-focused conservation projects
for several decades. Since 2005, this has been through a formal 'Action for Birds in …

Assessment of the natural resource potential of the important bird areas of the north Kazakhstan region for the development of ornithological tourism

PS Dmitriyev, IA Zuban, IA Fomin… - … of Tourism and …, 2023 - repozytorium.bg.ug.edu.pl
To assess the potential of the allocated Important Bird Areas (IBA) of the North Kazakhstan
region for the development of ecological tourism in the region. The work uses the materials …