Enhancing biodiversity on arable farms in the context of environmental certification schemes

Chapter 5 Availability of shelter sites for small mammals and birds on Dutch organic and conventional arable farms.

To compare the effects of conventional and organic arable farming on on-farm biodiversity and landscape quality, the indicators developed for acreage of semi-natural habitat,

Only with the EKO label is the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for crop protection forbidden; the other labels have no restrictions on this point. Chemical fumigation

A field was defined as a unit of land use (one user, one set of agricultural practices) bounded by a semi-natural habitat or road (adapted from LeCoeur et al., 2002). The width of

The goal of this study is to develop an indicator for measuring and assessing the plant species richness of semi-natural habitats and cropland, independent of farming strategy and farm

Table 3: Average percentage of suitable farm area in spring and summer for nesting of the skylark (Alauda arvensis) and harvest mouse (Micromys minutes) and

The combination of the increase in plant species richness and the change in plant species composition (based on the rarity index and the Ellenberg nitrogen values) was most marked

In open questions the farmers were asked what they considered to be the best management options for enhancing plant species richness of ditch banks, whether they would be prepared