Ecological cross compliance promotes farmland biodiversity in Switzerland

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 247-252

  Aviron, Stephanie ^a   Nitsch, Heike ^b   Jeanneret, Philippe ^a   Buholzer, Serge ^a   Luka, Henryk ^c   Pfiffner, Lukas ^c   Pozzi, Stefano ^d   Schüpbach, Beatrice ^a   Walter, Thomas ^a   Herzog, Felix ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE FIBL   (Switzerland)

^d AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPLIANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; FLORA; SPIDER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

ARANEAE; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 63049122292     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/070197     Document Type: Article

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