Judith Girard

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested for consistent relationships between landscape heterogeneity and biodiversity in farmland, with a view to developing simple rules for landscape management that could increase biodiversity within farmland, and found that mean crop field size had the strongest overall effect on biodiversity measures in crop fields, and this effect was consistently negative.

TL;DR: In this article, the relative effects of six practices (annual/perennial crop, fertilizer use, herbicide use, insecticide usage, tile drainage, and tillage) versus two aspects of farmland heterogeneity (field size and crop diversity) on the diversity of herbaceous plants, woody plants, butterflies, syrphid flies, bees, carabid beetles, spiders, and birds in rural eastern Ontario, Canada.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified 50 priority information needs which emphasize the importance of reviewing policies and actions and disseminating lessons learned from successes and failures; better understanding mechanisms to build public support; improving, in specific instances, understanding of the status and trends of habitats, species, ecosystems, and threats for planning and management; and mobilizing biodiversity information.

TL;DR: Spiders had less variable &dgr;15N than other taxa in this study, because they occupy a single trophic level, which may make spiders more suitable for detecting changes in fertilization regimes and of responses of invertebrates to land use change.

TL;DR: Management actions to increase invertebrate abundance in hedgerows may benefit Song Sparrows and other farmland birds with minimal impact on crop yield, based on the proportion of seminatural and forage cover at the nest.