Field sizes and the future of farmland biodiversity in European landscapes

Y Clough, S Kirchweger, J Kantelhardt - Conservation letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Lower diversity of plant and animal farmland species are usually reported where cropland
has been aggregated into larger fields, which raises prospects of curbing declines in …

Aspects of traditional agricultural landscapes: potential alternative development paths for sustainable agriculture—A review

AG Vasilescu, AI Pleşoianu, I Pătru-Stupariu - Biodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
In the context of climate change, the decline in biodiversity and current socio-economic
trends, which support the processes of industrialization or abandonment of agricultural land …

Bio-cultural refugia—Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity

S Barthel, C Crumley, U Svedin - Global Environmental Change, 2013 - Elsevier
Food security for a growing world population is high on the list of grand sustainability
challenges, as is reducing the pace of biodiversity loss in landscapes of food production …

Social justice for traditional knowledge holders will help conserve Europe's nature

Z Molnár, Á Fernández-Llamazares, C Schunko… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biodiversity of European cultural landscapes is threatened by land abandonment and
intensification. While the conservation benefits of traditional management practices have …

Human–nature connectedness and other relational values are negatively affected by landscape simplification: insights from Lower Saxony, Germany

M Riechers, B Martín-López, J Fischer - Sustainability Science, 2022 - Springer
Landscape simplification is a worldwide phenomenon that impacts biodiversity in
agricultural landscapes. Humans benefit greatly from nature's contributions to people in both …

The importance of ecosystem services for rural inhabitants in a changing cultural landscape in Romania

T Hartel, J Fischer, C Câmpeanu, AI Milcu… - Ecology and society, 2014 - JSTOR
Many traditional cultural landscapes evolved as coupled social-ecological systems. It is
important to understand how such systems navigate novel challenges posed by …

Biocultural refugia: combating the erosion of diversity in landscapes of food production

S Barthel, CL Crumley, U Svedin - Ecology and Society, 2013 - JSTOR
There is urgent need to both reduce the rate of biodiversity loss caused by industrialized
agriculture and feed more people. The aim of this paper is to highlight the role of places that …

A holistic approach to studying social-ecological systems and its application to southern Transylvania

J Hanspach, T Hartel, AI Milcu, F Mikulcak… - Ecology and …, 2014 - JSTOR
Global change presents risks and opportunities for social-ecological systems worldwide.
Key challenges for sustainability science are to identify plausible future changes in social …

[PDF][PDF] The influence of landscape change on multiple dimensions of human–nature connectedness

M Riechers, Á Balázsi, DJ Abson, J Fischer - Ecology and Society, 2020 - fox.leuphana.de
Human–nature connectedness is hailed as a potential remedy for the current sustainability
crisis, yet it is also deeply affected by it. Here, we perform a comprehensive assessment of …

High Nature Value farming: From indication to conservation

MW Strohbach, ML Kohler, J Dauber, S Klimek - Ecological indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The maintenance of High Nature Value (HNV) farming is a priority for reaching the
target of halting biodiversity loss in the European Union by 2020. Nevertheless, since the …