Optimizing the biodiversity gain from agri-environment schemes

By T. Merckx, R. Feber, P. Riordan, M. Townsend, N. Bourn, M. Parsons, David W. Macdonald. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

Flower-strip agri-environment schemes provide diverse and valuable summer flower resources for pollinating insects (2018, background): “2011) or moths (Merckx et al. 2009) but rarely on the entire guild of flower-visiting insects.”
Global Biodiversity Change: The Bad, the Good, and the Unknown (2012, background): “outside nature reserves are agri-environment schemes, which are policy tools with ample scope to reverse the negative trends of oncecommon, widespread species (150), and direct payments to conserve biodiversity (151).”
Beyond nectar provision: the other resource requirements of parasitoid biological control agents (2016, background): “, 2007) and that conservation measures in the agricultural matrix aremore likely tomake an impact in moderately complex surroundings (Rundlof et al., 2008; Merckx et al., 2009).”
The decline of moths in Great Britain: a review of possible causes (2013, background): “Apart from the recent work of Merckx et al. (2009b), there is no information on these contrasting strategies that relates directly to moths in Britain.”
Homogenization of lepidopteran communities in intensively cultivated agricultural landscapes (2010, background): “Measures currently included in most agri-environment schemes are implemented at too small a spatial scale for them to be effective (Whittingham 2007; Merckx et al. 2009a), not only for habitat specialists, but even for mobile habitat generalists (Merckx et al. 2009b).”
Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers (2019, background): “The combined removal of weeds and trees in intensive agricultural settings may thus explain the decline of moth species overwintering as larvae (Fox, 2013; Mattila et al., 2006; Merckx et al., 2009; Pocock and Jennings, 2008).”
Diversity and trait composition of moths respond to land-use intensification in grasslands: generalists replace specialists (2017, methodology): “First, to account for random factor variation in the abiotic conditions we calculated residuals on a linear model (subsequently termed the co-variate model) that described the response variables as a function of the average temperature (in C), the month (as factorial variable with levels ‘‘May’’, ‘‘”