“…In the context of implementing green belt provisions, farmers are faced with the challenge of ensuring a profitable production while at the same time following the rules set up to protect biodiversity. Moreover, while the landscape transformations leading to fragmented habitats are caused by multiple factors such as urban sprawl, expanding transport infrastructures, increasing traffic, land consolidation and draining of wetlands, modern intensive farming is often pointed to as a major driver of the collapse of wildlife populations and a threat to biodiversity conservation (Jongman, 2002;Henle et al, 2008), when in fact there are possible synergies between agriculture and biodiversity (Altieri, 1999;Grashof-Bokdam and Van Langervelde, 2004;Le Roux et al, 2008;Fleury et al, 2015;Magda et al, 2015).…”