We examined the environmental impacts of farmland management practices (FMPs),
considering FMPs as frequent or single actions that change both land use AND use rights …

Currently, one of the most significant challenges of agricultural sector of an economy is to
keep pace with the world's rapidly growing population in order to feed them. But continuous …

China's farmland landscape fragmentation follows a distinct evolutionary tendency along the
spatial gradient “central urban areas→ urban–rural transitional areas→ rural areas” …

Landscape services can be understood as the spatial explicit and human action produced
ecosystem services at the landscape scale. Mapping multiple landscape services of …

Conserving biodiversity on farmland is an essential element of worldwide efforts for
reversing the global biodiversity decline. Common approaches involve improving the natural …

Many countries are reshaping their agricultural policies to better enhance biodiversity and
ecosystem services (BES) in farmlands, but measuring the effectiveness of policy …

Climate change is predicted to severely impact interactions between prey, predators and
habitats. In Southern Europe, within the Mediterranean climate, herbaceous vegetation …

Plant diversity and proxy indicators of ecosystem services were assessed for three structural
components of Mediterranean silvopastoral agroforestry systems: WL= cork oak woodlands …

CONTEXT Efforts to bring together landscape analysis and farming systems have failed to
explain the drivers behind their spatial distribution. Since agricultural landscapes are an …

Abstract The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has shown difficulties in meeting its
environmental objectives, namely in supporting biodiversity-friendly farming systems that …