Farmland biodiversity is an important characteristic when assessing sustainability of
agricultural practices and is of major international concern. Scientific data indicate that …

In Europe, like in many temperate lowlands worldwide, forest has a long history of
fragmentation and land use change. In many places, forest landscapes consist of patches of …

Increase in food production is the prime-most objective of all countries, as world population
is expected to grow to nearly 10 billion by 2050. Based on evidence, world population is …

As the world's population continues to grow, the demand for food, fodder, fibre and
bioenergy will increase. In Europe, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has driven the …

Decisions for agricultural management are taken at farm scale. However, such decisions
may well impact upon regional sustainability. Two of the likely agricultural management …

Context The global trend of landscape simplification for industrial agriculture is known to
cause losses in biodiversity and ecosystem service diversity. Despite these problems being …

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

Increasing land-use intensity is a main driver of biodiversity loss in farmland, but measuring
proxies for land-use intensity across entire landscapes is challenging. Here, we develop a …

Worldwide, bees have an important role in ecosystem function and the provision of
ecosystem services through their role as pollinators. The diversity of bee species in rural …

Agricultural intensification is one of the main drivers of species loss worldwide, but there is
still a lack of information about its effect on functional diversity of arable weed communities …