Conventional land‐use intensification reduces species richness and increases production: A global meta‐analysis

M Beckmann, K Gerstner, M Akin‐Fajiye… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Most current research on land‐use intensification addresses its potential to either threaten
biodiversity or to boost agricultural production. However, little is known about the …

[HTML][HTML] Forest clear-cuts as habitat for farmland birds and butterflies

D Ram, Å Lindström, LB Pettersson, P Caplat - Forest ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The intensification of agriculture has resulted in more homogeneous landscapes and
declines of many species associated with farmland or other semi-natural open habitats. In …

Reduced diversity of farmland birds in homogenized agricultural landscape: a cross-border comparison over the former Iron Curtain

M Šálek, K Kalinová, R Daňková, S Grill… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2021 - Elsevier
Agricultural intensification led to a transformation of structurally complex agricultural
landscapes that resulted in a subsequent loss of landscape heterogeneity. Landscape …

Combined effects of landscape composition and heterogeneity on farmland avian diversity

J Santana, L Reino, C Stoate, F Moreira… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Conserving biodiversity on farmland is an essential element of worldwide efforts for
reversing the global biodiversity decline. Common approaches involve improving the natural …

Impact of recent changes in agricultural land use on farmland bird trends

JS Jerrentrup, J Dauber, MW Strohbach… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2017 - Elsevier
Agriculture has been, and still is, strongly shaping landscapes across Europe. In recent
decades, agricultural land use has changed considerably, mainly driven by reforms of …

Effects of water level and grassland management on alpha and beta diversity of birds in restored wetlands

M Żmihorski, T Pärt, T Gustafson… - Journal of applied …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Nearly 60% of European wetlands have been lost to drainage or to the cessation of
grassland management. Large amounts of resources are put into wetland restoration with …

[HTML][HTML] Agricultural landscapes as habitat for birds in central Chile

A Muñoz-Sáez, JF Perez-Quezada… - Revista chilena de …, 2017 - SciELO Chile
MUNOZ-SAEZ, Andrés; PEREZ-QUEZADA, Jorge F. y ESTADES, Cristián F.. Agricultural
landscapes as habitat for birds in central Chile. Rev. chil. hist. nat.[online]. 2017, vol. 90, 3 …

Land-use intensity and landscape structure drive the acoustic composition of grasslands

S Müller, MM Gossner, C Penone, K Jung… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding drivers and monitoring changes of biodiversity forms the basis for evidence-
based management and policy recommendations that aim to reduce biodiversity loss and to …

[HTML][HTML] From archived historical aerial imagery to informative orthophotos: A framework for retrieving the past in long-term socioecological research

AT Pinto, JA Gonçalves, P Beja, J Pradinho Honrado - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Aerial photographs have been systematically collected from as early as the 1930s, providing
a unique resource to describe changes in vegetation and land cover over extended periods …

Evaluating conservation tools in Polish grasslands: the occurrence of birds in relation to agri-environment schemes and Natura 2000 areas

M Żmihorski, D Kotowska, Å Berg, T Pärt - Biological conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
To halt the decline of biodiversity in European farmland, two major tools are available: the
Natura 2000 network and agri-environment schemes (AES). We investigated the effect of …