Agriculture is currently facing unprecedented challenges: ensuring food, fiber and energy
production in the face of global change, maintaining the economic performance of farmers …

Abstract Established under the European Union (EU) Birds and Habitats Directives, Natura
2000 is one of the largest international networks of protected areas. With the spatial …

Literature Review The ecological effectiveness of the Natura 2000 Network Page 1 The
European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD) is a consortium of twelve organisations …

1. Natura 2000 network (N 2000) and national protected areas (NPA s) are recognised as
the most important core 'units' for biological conservation in E urope. 2. Species distribution …

Farmland biodiversity provides ecological services that support food production, but the
spatial scale (s) at which its management should be implemented is an acute question …

The Natura 2000 protected area network (N2000), implemented under the Birds and
Habitats Directives (respectively, Special Protection Areas, SPA, and Special Areas of …

To halt the decline of biodiversity in European farmland, two major tools are available: the
Natura 2000 network and agri-environment schemes (AES). We investigated the effect of …

In conservation biology, there is a general consensus that protected areas (PAs) are one of
the most effective tools for biodiversity protection. Worldwide, the area of PAs is continually …

Biodiversity has undergone a major decline throughout recent decades, particularly in
farmland. Agricultural practices are recognized to be an important pressure on farmland …

Traditional farming landscapes have evolved as tightly coupled socioecological systems that
support high biodiversity. However, land‐use change severely threatens the high …