Understanding the factors driving changes in farm management is needed for designing
policies and subsidy schemes to protect High Nature Value Farmland (HNVF). We describe …

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 …

Intensification and abandonment of European farmland and consequent changes, usually
declines, in farmland bird populations are strongly linked to the European Union's (EU) …

Abstract In the current Anthropocene Era, with numerous escalating challenges for
biodiversity conservation, the inclusion of the social dimension into management decisions …

This study, financed by the Commission of the European Communities, has been carried out
by the Institute for European Environmental Policy, and the consultant has full responsibility …

Iberian natural steppes have traditionally been used for extensive sheep grazing, which has
been noted to be positively associated with steppe bird abundance and diversity. Sheep …

Abstract The Mediterranean Basin has an important conservation value given its high
biodiversity and high number of endemic species, which have co-existed with human …

Livestock grazing is an important management tool for biodiversity conservation in many
native grasslands across the globe. Understanding how different grazing species interact …

Aim Although the negative effects of habitat fragmentation have been widely documented at
the landscape scale, much less is known about its impacts on species distributions at the …