“…In the current (since 2014) Countryside Stewardship AES both farmland conservation advisers and farmers have been able to draw on NPP guidance on farmland pond restoration and management. In addition, for the forthcoming Environmental Land Management Scheme AES (likely to be launched in 2025 with pilots running from 2021 to 2024), Sayer et al (2012), together with subsequent research on ghost pond resurrection (Alderton et al, 2017) and the benefits of pond restoration for farmland birds (Davies, Sayer, Greaves, Siriwardena, & Axmacher, 2016; Lewis‐Phillips et al, 2019; Lewis‐Phillips et al, 2020) and pollinators (Walton, Sayer, Bennion, & Axmacher, unpublished data), is being used to shape the overall approach and prescriptions for ponds. As Ruth Hall, Standing Waters Senior Specialist for Natural England, stated on 7 November 2019: ‘The research evidence base you have produced has been fed into the development of agri‐environment schemes and it continues to influence them, providing further justification for pond restoration to be funded.…”