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B.N. Elmiger ; B.N. Elmiger ; R. Finger ; J. Ghazoul ; S. Schaub |CONTEXT Many agricultural policies target the conservation of biodiversity worldwide. Result-based agri-environmental schemes can be more effective and efficient than the more commonly used action-based schemes. The efficiency of result-based sc[...]![]()
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M.C. Iglesias ; V. Hermoso ; J.C. Campos ; C. Carvalho-Santos ; P.M. Fernandes ; T.R. Freitas ; J.P. Honrado ; J.A. Santos ; A. Sil ; A. Regos ; J.C. Azevedo |Integrated management of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) in heterogeneous landscapes requires considering the potential trade-offs between conflicting objectives. The UNESCO's Biosphere Reserve zoning scheme is a suitable context to add[...]![]()
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C. Vidaller ; C. Malik ; T. Dutoit |Grazing is well-known to shape plant populations and plant communities and to affect several compartment characteristics of grazed ecosystems. Semi-natural grassland conservation depends on the maintenance of traditional extensive grazing system[...]![]()
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C. Castellano ; D. Bruno ; F.A. Comin ; J.M. Rey Benayas ; A. Masip ; J.J. Jiménez |Riparian forests nestled in agricultural landscapes represent a small proportion in crop-intensive areas, while contributing remarkably to their biodiversity. This biodiversity supports several ecological processes crucially involved in the supp[...]![]()
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The intensification, extensification and abandonment of agricultural land will each play a major role in the future development of European landscapes. However, their impacts on various dimensions of sustainability vary spatially. This creates c[...]![]()
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M. Carof ; O. Godinot ; E. Le Cadre |Biodiversity-based cropping systems are an interesting option to address the many challenges that agriculture faces. However, benefits of these systems should not obscure the fact that creating biodiversity-based cropping systems represents a ma[...]![]()
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Agriculture is a major driver of change with manifold impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. As social-ecological systems, agricultural landscapes result from the intertwined interaction between farmers and nature, and contribute to sev[...]![]()
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R. Morgado ; P.F. Ribeiro ; J.L. Santos ; F. Rego ; P. Beja ; F. Moreira |Over the last 30 years, olive farming has experienced a fast and large-scale intensification process across its Mediterranean range, that is reshaping Mediterranean farmland landscapes with associated impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem servic[...]![]()
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Specialization and intensification in agriculture have increased productivity but have also led to the spread of monocultural systems, simplifying production but reducing genetic diversity. The purpose of this study was to propose crop diversifi[...]![]()
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A. Schlattmann ; F. Neuendorf ; K. Burkhard ; E. Probst ; E. Pujades ; W. Mauser ; S. Attinger ; C. von Haaren |Water provision and distribution are subject to conflicts between users worldwide, with agriculture as a major driver of discords. Water sensitive ecosystems and their services are often impaired by man-made water shortage. Nevertheless, they ar[...]![]()
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Preservation and promotion of agroforestry systems entails the ideology for more ecosystem services, additional biodiversity benefits and climate change mitigation. Furthermore, farmland and forest landscapes and the consequent benefits to the e[...]![]()
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Global scenario-based modelling efforts to support biodiversity policies typically consider agriculture only as a pressure factor. Current scenarios typically include the expansion of protected areas combined with higher agricultural productivit[...]![]()
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E. Garmendia ; A. Aldezabal ; E. Galán ; A. Andonegi ; A. Del Prado ; G. Gamboa ; O. Garcia ; G. Pardo ; N. Aldai ; L.J.R. Barron |Pastoral systems face increasing pressure from competing global markets, food sector industrialization, and new policies such as Europes post-2020 Common Agriculture Policy. This pressure threatens the use of extensive sheep-grazing systems in [...]![]()
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Spain is the country with the most biosphere reserves (BRs) in the world. The aim of this paper is to investigate why BRs have come to proliferate to such a degree in Spain and why there is a gap between UNESCOs framework and the practicalities[...]![]()
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Agricultural intensification tends to maximize provisioning services at the expense of regulating, cultural and supporting ecosystem services (ES). Enhancing agroecosystem sustainability requires both individual and collective solutions, but the[...]![]()
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A. Pollo ; I. Piccini ; J. Chiara ; E. Porro ; D. Chiantore ; F. Gili ; R. Alba ; A. Barbi ; G. Bogliani ; M. Bagliani ; A. Doretto ; C. Ruffino ; E. Malenotti ; A. Garazzino ; R. Pelosini ; C. Siniscalco ; S. Bonelli |Since climate change impacts are already occurring, urgent adaptive actions are necessary to avoid the worst damages. Regional authorities play an important role in adaptation, but they have few binding guidelines to carry out strategies and pla[...]![]()
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F. Nocente ; E. Galassi ; F. Taddei ; C. Natale ; L. Gazza |Through the centuries, the domestication and modern breeding of wheat led to a significant loss of genetic variation in the cultivated gene pool with a consequent decrease in food diversity. Current trends towards low-input and sustainable agric[...]![]()
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A. Scuderi ; L. Sturiale ; G. Timpanaro ; A. Matarazzo ; S. Zingale ; P. Guarnaccia |For several decades, studies and conventions have highlighted the importance of the ecosystem services provided by natural resources and biodiversity for humanity and the need to move their management towards a sustainable model. Inthe United Na[...]![]()
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M. Teston ; M. Orsi ; G. Bittante ; A. Cecchinato ; L. Gallo ; P. Gatto ; L.F.M. Mota ; M. Ramanzin ; S. Raniolo ; A. Tormen ; E. Sturaro |This study is part of a project (Sheep Al.L. Chain, RDP Veneto Region) aiming to improve the competitiveness of local sheep breed farms through valorization of their links with mountain agroecosystems. We considered two local sheep breeds of the[...]![]()
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Increasing the levels of ecosystem services that contribute to agricultural production (ES) is a challenge for the sustainability of agricultural systems. Agricultural advisors lack low-data operational approaches for assessing ES and knowledge [...]![]()
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A national green planning strategy has recently been introduced in the Italian urban planning sector, aimed at making all local initiatives undertaken nationwide consistent with each other. At a regional level, Friuli Venezia-Giulia has recently[...]![]()
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Le Cyprès de l'Atlas (Cupressus atlantica) cantonné dans une seule vallée du Haut Atlas marocain est l'une des endémiques forestières emblématiques du bassin méditerranéen. Décrit par Gaussen en 1950, ce cyprès est une bonne espèce, vus à la foi[...]![]()
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Taking Biodiversity Focus Areas under production or abandoning lower yielding, more extensive production systems is the wrong approach to mastering the looming global food crisis, our authors maintain.![]()
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L. Battisti ; F. Larcher ; S. Grella ; N. Di Bartolo ; M. Devecchi |The Natura 2000 network is an ecological network covering the whole territory of the European Union to ensure the long-term maintenance of threatened or rare natural habitats and species of flora and fauna, including in metropolitan and rural ar[...]![]()
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Soils form a thin layer on the Earths surface and host an immense biological diversity, most of which is invisible. Yet the organisms living in soil provide crucial ecosystem services that human societies depend on. While intensive agricultural[...]![]()
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N.M. Georgiadis ; G. Dimitropoulos ; K. Avanidou ; P. Bebeli ; E. Bergmeier ; S. Dervisoglou ; T. Dimopoulos ; D. Grigoropoulou ; I. Hadjigeorgiou ; O. Kairis ; E. Kakalis ; K. Kosmas ; S. Meyer ; M. Panitsa ; D. Perdikis ; D. Sfakianou ; N. Tsiopelas ; T. Kizos |The management of agroecosystems affects biodiversity at all levels from genetic to food-web complexity. Low-input farming systems support higher levels of genetic, species and habitat diversity than high-input, industrial ones. In Greece, as in[...]![]()
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R. De Groot ; S. Moolenaar ; J. de Vente ; V. De Leijster ; M.E. Ramos ; A. Belen Robles ; Y. Schoonhoven ; P. Verweij |To prevent landscape degradation and the continuing loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, decisions regarding landscape restoration should be based on their true costs and benefits (i.e. broader welfare effects), including all externali[...]![]()
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Agriculture has been identified as one of the main drivers of environmental degradation in the European Union (EU). It can have negative impacts on air, water, soil and biodiversity. The condition of agroecosystems is affected by soil degradatio[...]![]()
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Alors quelle occupe une part croissante du débat public ces dernières années, la séquence « Éviter-Réduire-Compenser » est un instrument de laction publique ayant pour objectif une non-perte nette de biodiversité lors dopérations daménagemen[...]![]()
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J.-L. Chotte ; J. Albergel ; B. Bonnet ; A. Cornet ; T. Heulin ; P. Hiernaux ; A. Ickowicz ; M. Loireau ; M. Requier-Desjardins ; E. Scopel ; H. Soubelet ; B. Sultan ; M. Thibon ; Y. Travi ; L. Vidal | Montpellier [France] : CSFD. Comité Scientifique Français de la Désertification | Fiche d'actualité | 2022Le premier bilan d'étape de l'impact de l'initiative de la Grande Muraille Verte (GMV) au Sahel (septembre 2021) met en évidence l'urgence d'actions coordonnées, impliquant tous les acteurs, pour atteindre les ambitions annoncées en 2007. Aujour[...]