Lower diversity of plant and animal farmland species are usually reported where cropland
has been aggregated into larger fields, which raises prospects of curbing declines in …

Landscape management could contribute to sustainable pest control. Landscape
composition, in particular, could either directly impact a pest abundance by affecting its …

Human wellbeing depends on ecosystem services, highlighting the need for improving the
ecosystem-service multifunctionality of food and feed production systems. We study Swiss …

Recent reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2018 and 2019) have
revealed that world's human activities have contributed to around 1° C of global warming …

Root-associated microbes play a key role in plant performance and productivity, making
them important players in agroecosystems. So far, very few studies have assessed the …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 101–112 Abstract Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes can be
increased with conversion of some production lands into 'more‐natural'–unmanaged or …

A major challenge for agriculture is to enhance productivity with minimum impact on the
environment. Several studies indicate that cover crops could replace anthropogenic inputs …

In Europe, agri‐environmental schemes (AES) have been introduced in response to
concerns about farmland biodiversity declines. Yet, as AES have delivered variable results …

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 …

Soil health reflects the capacity of a soil to provide ecosystem services. A major challenge of
soil management is to support agricultural productivity without jeopardizing other ecosystem …