Estimating effects of arable land use intensity on farmland birds using joint species modeling.

ABSTRACT: Declines in European farmland birds over past decades have been attributed to the combined effects of agricultural intensification and abandonment. Consequently, aspirations to stop declines should focus attention on reversing these changes through voluntary or policy-driven interventions. The design of such interventions should ideally be informed by scientific knowledge of which aspects of the transformation of agricultural landscapes have contributed to the farmland bird declines. Declines may be associated with loss of natural habitats or the intensification and homogenization of land use management on production land, and furthermore, these changes may interact. Here, we applied an orthogonal design exploiting spatial variation in land use in a major agricultural region of Sweden to s

SUBMITTER: Stjernman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6850359 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature