Cultivation and crop** are major causes of destruction and degradation of natural
ecosystems throughout the world. We face the challenge of maintaining provisioning …

Conflicts between biodiversity conservation and human activities are becoming increasingly
apparent in all European landscapes. The intensification of agricultural and silvicultural …

Summary 1 There is a long‐term trend of depopulation of rural areas and pasture
abandonment throughout the Alps. This trend peaked after the Second World War and is …

Population growth and human development result in biodiversity loss and biological
homogenization not only in developed countries, but increasingly in the less developed …

Although habitat transformation is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss, there are
many examples of species successfully occupying and even proliferating in highly human …

1. Breeding sites of raptors were studied in relation to land‐use and edge habitat using two
different scales in semi‐arid Mediterranean landscapes in south‐eastern Spain. Habitat …

European pseudo‐steppes have suffered from extensive changes in agricultural practices
during the past decades with the disappearance of field margins and fallow systems and the …

Summary 1 Habitat structure is a major determinant of bird species diversity. One process by
which habitat structure is altered is livestock grazing, the most extensive land use across …

Summary 1 The little bustard Tetrax tetrax is among many birds thought to be declining
because of agricultural intensification in western Europe. In contrast with the situation …

Extinctions are often the result of multiple factors that are difficult to disentangle and so
methods for identifying simple and combined types of extinctions are valuable for both basic …