Tsipe Aavik

TL;DR: Of the 13 components of intensification the authors measured, use of insecticides and fungicides had consistent negative effects on biodiversity, and organic farming and other agri-environment schemes aiming to mitigate the negative effects are found.

TL;DR: Local AI was closely correlated to beta diversity on larger scales up to the farm and region level, and thereby was an indicator of farm- and region-wide biodiversity losses, and in contrast to expectations, AI does not necessarily homogenize local communities, presumably due to the heterogeneity of farming practices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how the species richness and abundance of wild plants, ground beetles and breeding birds, and the biological control potential of the area, were affected by organic and conventional farming, and how these effects were modified by landscape complexity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize the findings from a large-scale pan-European investigation of the combined effects of agricultural intensification on a range of agroecosystem services, including the persistence of high conservation value species; the level of biological control of agricultural pests and the functional diversity of a number of taxonomic groups, including birds, beetles and arable weeds.

TL;DR: Habitat patch availability and habitat quality are the main drivers of functional group composition and plant species richness in European agricultural landscapes and in order to conserve vascular plant species diversity in agricultural landscapes.