Lorna J Cole, David Kleijn, Lynn V Dicks, Jane C Stout, Simon G Potts, Matthias Albrecht, Mario V Balzan, Ignasi Bartomeus, Penelope J Bebeli, Danilo Bevk, Jacobus C Biesmeijer, Róbert Chlebo, Anželika Dautartė, Nikolaos Emmanouil, Chris Hartfield, John M Holland, Andrea Holzschuh, Nieke T J Knoben, Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki, Yael Mandelik, Heleni Panou, Robert J Paxton, Theodora Petanidou, Miguel A A Pinheiro de Carvalho, Maj Rundlöf, Jean-Pierre Sarthou, Menelaos C Stavrinides, Maria Jose Suso, Hajnalka Szentgyörgyi, Bernard E Vaissière, Androulla Varnava, Montserrat Vilà, Romualdas Zemeckis, Jeroen Scheper
Agricultural intensification and associated loss of high-quality habitats are key drivers of insect pollinator declines. With the aim of decreasing the environmental impact of agriculture, the 2014 EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) defined a set of habitat and landscape features (Ecological Focus Areas: EFAs) farmers could select from as a requirement to receive basic farm payments. To inform the post-2020 CAP, we performed a European-scale evaluation to determine how different EFA options vary in their potential to support insect pollinators under standard and pollinator-friendly management, as well as the extent of farmer uptake...
April 2020: Journal of Applied Ecology