Potential effects of direct transfer payments on farmland habitat diversity in a marginal european landscape

Environmental Management

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1026-1038

  Reger, Birgit ^a   Sheridan, Patrick ^a   Simmering, Dietmar ^a   Otte, Annette ^a   Waldhardt, Rainer ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Common Agricultural Policy; Germany; Land use modeling; Landscape structure; Scenarios

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE; COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; GERMANY; LAND-USE MODELING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SCENARIOS;

FARMS; LAND USE; OCEAN HABITATS; REFORESTATION;

ECOLOGY;

AFFORESTATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT QUALITY; HOMOGENEITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; RARITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFFORESTATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; HABITAT; LANDSCAPE;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 67349202142     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-008-9270-8     Document Type: Article

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