Does agri-environmental management enhance biodiversity and multiple ecosystem services?: A farm-scale experiment

Urban wildflower meadow planting for biodiversity, climate and society: An evaluation at King's College, Cambridge

“…The strong support for meadow amongst our surveyed population may well be attributable in part to dissatisfaction with the current access to greenspace arrangements amongst the surveyed community and would not necessarily be expected amongst the city population overall, or in different cities. Additionally, the immense popularity of the meadow planting apparent in this cohort may not persist over time, if residents come to see this habitat as typical and, thus, less associated with novelty and action for the environment (Bullock et al, 2021). Where lawns were once used to demonstrate how much land one could keep out of productivity, it seems that they still have a symbolic significance around stewardship today, with respondents agreeing that meadow planting can be used to signal sustainability leadership.…”

Agricultural intensification increases farmers' income but reduces food self‐sufficiency and bee diversity: Evidence from southeast Mexico

“…Intensification produces no significant effects on food security conditions and is negatively associated with conservation of biodiversity in agroecosystems. Highly intensive farming systems are not sustainable, as they result in a loss of biodiversity and therefore of the ecosystem services they provide, such as pollination, pest control and soil regeneration (Bullock et al, 2021).…”

Could green infrastructure supplement ecosystem service provision from semi-natural grasslands?

“…Clearly, such indicators only suggest potential ecosystem service delivery and work to test such indicators against actual ecosystem services is extremely valuable (e.g., Kleyer, 2021). Much ecosystem service research and assessment tends to use such proxies for ease and convenience (Bullock et al 2021). The most challenging issue in implementing our approach is the quality of indicator data.…”

“…Such considerations suggest that in addition to approaches to managing grassland to enhance G-ES (e.g., van Vooren et al 2018;Bullock et al 2021), the creation and management of GGI could be a useful tool to increase G-ES delivery at the landscape-scale. In this study, we use the correlations between GGI connectivity and G-ES indicators to project the effect of improving connectivity on G-ES delivery, i.e., providing a 'service credit' to be drawn on in the future akin to immigration credits (Jackson and Sax, 2010).…”