Metacommunity ecology combines local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic interactions)
and regional (eg, dispersal and heterogeneity) processes to understand patterns of species …

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 …

The European Green Deal strategy, prepared in 2019, involves a number of challenges for
European agriculture. These challenges are broadly linked to a need for agriculture to …

The main aim of this study was to evaluate the sustainable development of agriculture in the
member states of the European Union (EU). Sustainable development is the main objective …

Crop diversification has been proposed as farm management tool that could mitigate the
externalities of conventional farming while reducing productivity-biodiversity trade-offs. Yet …

Open-source biodiversity databases contain a large number of species occurrence records
but are often spatially biased; which affects the reliability of species distribution models …

Due to new urbanization patterns, where cities' edges are becoming increasingly difficult to
delimit, a better understanding of urban-rural gradients has become a key issue for urban …

Context Agricultural expansion is a principal driver of biodiversity loss, but the impacts on
community assembly in agro-ecosystems are less clear, especially across regional scales at …

Silvoarable systems (SAS) are agroforestry systems (AFS) that combine the cultivation of
trees and arable crops. Often, rows of trees delineate crop alleys in a field (alley-cropping …

Using the case study of birds and food crops, we investigate whether diversifying crop
production can enhance preservation of local biodiversity. To this end we combine annual …