Landscape heterogeneity rather than crop diversity mediates bird diversity in agricultural landscapes.

Crop diversification has been proposed as farm management tool that could mitigate the externalities of conventional farming while reducing productivity-biodiversity trade-offs. Yet evidence for the acclaimed biodiversity benefits of landscape-level crop diversity is ambiguous. Effects may strongly...

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Main Authors: Sarah Redlich, Emily A Martin, Beate Wende, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6070203?pdf=render