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Portrait of Henrik Smith. Photo.

Henrik Smith

Professor

Portrait of Henrik Smith. Photo.

Time lags in biodiversity response to farming practice

Author

  • Georg Andersson
  • Maj Rundlöf
  • Henrik Smith

Summary, in English

Agri-environmental schemes have been applied with the goal to mitigate negative effects of agriculture on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. However, on evaluating the schemes the results have been variable and shown both positive and neutral effects. These variable effects can be attributed to not taking into account important factors affecting the variables at test, such as biodiversity. These factors include no exact definition of the farming practice, landscape complexity and the scale of study. Here we introduce a fourth factor not considered, the time scale of study. The implications and effects are discussed shortly.

Department/s

  • Department of Biology
  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Pages

381-384

Publication/Series

Aspects of Applied Biology

Volume

100

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Association of Applied Biologists

Topic

  • Environmental Sciences
  • Ecology

Status

Published

Research group

  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0265-1491