Insects are under pressure from agricultural intensification. To protect pollinators, conservation measures such as the EU agri-environment schemes (AES) promote planting wildflowers along fields. However, this can potentially alter disease ecology by serving as transmission hubs or by diluting infections. We tested this by measuring plant–pollinat...
Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Soil carbon sequestration (SCS) practices on French agricultural land are part of the portfolio of actions available to policymakers in the field of climate change mitigation and are central to the success of the “4 per 1,000” initiative, launched by France in 2015. To date, there has been limited research considering their applicability to vineyar...
Peer reviewed: True / Insects are under pressure from agricultural intensification. To protect pollinators, conservation measures such as the EU agri-environment schemes (AES) promote planting wildflowers along fields. However, this can potentially alter disease ecology by serving as transmission hubs or by diluting infections. We tested this by me...
Funder: Cambridge Trust; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003343 / Funder: Hughes Hall / Funder: Royal Society; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000288 / The biodiversity and climate crises demand ambitious policies lowering the environmental impacts of farming. Most current interventions incentivise so-called land-sharing approaches to add...
Integrated pest management (IPM) has been practiced by the fruit industry for at least 30 years. Naturally occurring beneficial insects have been encouraged to thrive alongside introduced predatory insects. However, Conservation Biological Control (CBC) and augmented biocontrol through the release of large numbers of natural enemies is normally onl...
De monitoring van het agrarisch natuurbeheer richt zich tot dusver met name op het in beeld brengen van de abundantie (aantallen) van de doelsoorten. Het primaire effect van het agrarisch natuurbeheer is evenwel de beïnvloeding van de habitatkwaliteit. Deze veranderde habitatkwaliteit vertaalt zich op termijn als het goed is in een verandering van...
Published in Frontiers in Conservation Science
Most landscapes are comprised of multiple habitat types differing in the biodiversity they contain. This is certainly true for human modified landscapes, which are often a mix of habitats managed with different intensity, semi-natural habitats and even pristine habitats. To understand fundamental questions of how the composition of such landscapes ...
De monitoring van het agrarisch richt zich tot dusver met name op het in beeld brengen van de abundantie (aantallen) van de doelsoorten. Het primaire effect van het agrarisch natuurbeheer is evenwel de beïnvloeding van de habitatkwaliteit. Deze veranderde habitatkwaliteit vertaalt zich op termijn als het goed is in een verandering van de abundanti...
Het doel van dit rapport is om het tot op heden onvoldoende gedefinieerde begrip ‘ruimtelijke kwaliteit’ hanteerbaar te maken voor het bespreken van de ruimtelijke kwaliteit van agrarische landschappen met kringlooplandbouw. Met een literatuurstudie is een ruimtelijk kwaliteitskader opgesteld bestaande uit zestien aspecten voor ruimtelijke kwalitei...
The paper investigates the relative influence of landscape characteristics, production intensity and the EU’s Common agricultural policy interventions on the diversity of farmland birds. For this purpose, data from the Farmland Bird Monitoring Scheme in Slovenia and high spatial resolution data from the national agricultural databases in the period...
