Combined effects of landscape composition and heterogeneity on farmland avian diversity.

ABSTRACT: Conserving biodiversity on farmland is an essential element of worldwide efforts for reversing the global biodiversity decline. Common approaches involve improving the natural component of the landscape by increasing the amount of natural and seminatural habitats (e.g., hedgerows, woodlots, and ponds) or improving the production component of the landscape by increasing the amount of biodiversity-friendly crops. Because these approaches may negatively impact on economic output, it was suggested that an alternative might be to enhance the diversity (compositional heterogeneity) or the spatial complexity (configurational heterogeneity) of land cover types, without necessarily changing composition. Here, we develop a case study to evaluate these ideas, examining whether managing landscape comp

SUBMITTER: Santana J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5306015 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature