Hedgerows as ecosystems: service delivery, management, and restoration

I Montgomery, T Caruso, N Reid - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Hedge density, structure, and function vary with primary production and slope gradient and
are subject to other diverse factors. Hedgerows are emerging ecosystems with both above …

Biotic homogenisation and differentiation as directional change in beta diversity: synthesising driver–response relationships to develop conceptual models across …

RJ Rolls, DC Deane, SE Johnson, J Heino… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages
sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as …

Historical nectar assessment reveals the fall and rise of floral resources in Britain

M Baude, WE Kunin, ND Boatman, S Conyers… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
There is considerable concern over declines in insect pollinator communities and potential
impacts on the pollination of crops and wildflowers,,,. Among the multiple pressures facing …

Cultivar mixtures: a meta‐analysis of the effect of intraspecific diversity on crop yield

ER Reiss, LE Drinkwater - Ecological applications, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Extensive research has shown that greater plant community diversity leads to higher levels
of productivity and other ecosystem services, and such increased diversity has been …

The benefits of hedgerows for pollinators and natural enemies depends on hedge quality and landscape context

MPD Garratt, D Senapathi, DJ Coston… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2017 - Elsevier
Ecological intensification advocates the harnessing of regulating and supporting ecosystem
services to promote more sustainable food production, and this relies on effective …

The influence of hedgerow structural condition on wildlife habitat provision in farmed landscapes

L Graham, R Gaulton, F Gerard, JT Staley - Biological Conservation, 2018 - Elsevier
In this review, we discuss the role of hedgerow structure and condition in determining the
value of hedgerow habitat for biodiversity conservation within an agricultural context, to …

Road verges support pollinators in agricultural landscapes, but are diminished by heavy traffic and summer cutting

BB Phillips, KJ Gaston, JM Bullock… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Supporting pollinators in agricultural landscapes is important for reversing their global
decline. Road verges and hedges are used by pollinators for feeding and reproduction, but …

[图书][B] The global casino: an introduction to environmental issues

N Middleton - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the
workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks …

[HTML][HTML] Pollinator enhancement in agriculture: comparing sown flower strips, hedges and sown hedge herb layers in apple orchards

V Von Königslöw, F Fornoff, AM Klein - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2022 - Springer
In intensive agricultural landscapes semi-natural habitats for pollinators are often limited,
although willingness to establish pollinator habitat is increasing among farmers. A common …

[HTML][HTML] Are field boundary hedgerows the earliest example of a nature-based solution?

MJ Collier - Environmental Science & Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
The arrival of the phrase nature-based solutions into the lexicon of academics, planners,
managers and policy makers in recent years has sparked a heated debate as to the …