This collection reviews the wealth of research on ways to promote biodiversity within agricultural landscapes, focussing on the range of conservation, restoration and rewilding practices farmers and landowners can adopt.
Despite recent efforts, agricultural production continues to threaten biodiversity, disrupt delivery of key ecosystem services and contribute to climate change. A more regenerative approach is required to enable farmers to restore and work with the ecosystem services that underpin sustainable farming and food production. Biodiversity lies at the heart of this process.
Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: Conservation, restoration and rewilding considers the range of techniques that can be implemented to improve biodiversity in farmland. It synthesises current research on the best ways to plan, implement and monitor ecological restoration projects as well the role of government agri-environment schemes. The book also assesses what we know about the use and impact of individual conservation practices, such as field margins and hedgerows, and ways of successfully rewilding farmland.
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the key concepts in biodiversity management within agricultural landscapes
- Considers the role of farmers and rural communities in implementing ecological restoration practices
- Reviews the importance of habitat and animal rewilding in promoting biodiversity and other key ecosystem services
Part 1 Principles
1.Key concepts for conserving biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: Andrew
F. Bennett, Angie Haslem, Frederick W. Rainsford, Alex C. Maisey and James Q.
Radford, La Trobe University, Australia
2.Biodiversity for agriculture: the role of integrated farm management in
supporting agricultural production through biodiversity: G. R. Squire and C.
Hawes, James Hutton Institute, UK
3.Engaging local voices: farmers, rural communities, and ecological
restoration: Theodore Alter and Kayla Faith Laddin, Pennsylvania State
University, USA; and Lauren Hull, Michael Reid and Heidi Kleinert, Department
of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, Victoria, Australia
4.Implementing sustainable land use change programmes: Liz Lewis-Reddy, ADAS
Policy and Economics, UK
Part 2 Farmland and conservation practices
5.Soil health and ecological restoration: Alice Day, The University of
Manchester, UK; Ezekiel M. Njeru, Kenyatta University, Kenya; and David
Johnson, The University of Manchester, UK
6.The impact and design of field margins in promoting biodiversity in
agricultural landscapes: Jane Morrison, Bishop's University, Canada
7.The impact and management of hedgerows in promoting biodiversity in
agricultural landscapes: Ian Montgomery and Neil Reid, Queens University of
Belfast, UK
Part 3 The role of government and the private sector in promoting on-farm
conservation practices
8.Stick your wellies on: messy development and co-design processes with
Englands new Environmental Land Management (ELM) policy: Jennifer Dodsworth
and Rachel Lasko, University of Oxford, UK; and Ruth Little, University of
Sheffield, UK
9.Developments in agri-environment schemes (AES): North America: Gordon
Rausser and David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley, USA
10.Developments in agri-environment schemes (AES): Australia: Dean Ansell,
Andrew Macintosh, Don Butler and Marie Waschka, Australian National
University, Australia
Part 4 Habitat and animal rewilding
11.Restoring peatlands in European landscapes: Rudy van Diggelen and Tobias
Ceulemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Camiel Aggenbach, KWR Watercycle
Research Institute, The Netherlands; and Willem-Jan Emsens, Royal Zoological
Society of Antwerp and University of Antwerp, Belgium
12.Rewilding grasslands and rangelands: Thomas A. Jones, Forage and Range
Research Laboratory U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research
Service, USA
13.Lessons from reforestation of agricultural landscapes in South-Eastern
Australia: David Lindenmayer, David Smith, Daniel Florance, Clare Crane,
Eleanor Lang, Angelina Siegrist, Michelle Young and Ben C. Scheele, The
Australian National University, Australia
14.The future of animal rewilding in agricultural landscapes: Kiarrah J.
Smith, Iain. J. Gordon, Belinda A. Wilson and Adrian D. Manning, The
Australian National University, Australia
15.Animal rewilding in theory and practice: Australia and New Zealand:
Christopher R. Dickman, Aaron C. Greenville and Glenda M. Wardle, The
University of Sydney, Australia
Part 5 Looking ahead
16.Biodiversity and agricultural landscapes: where are the gaps?: Nick C. H.
Reid, University of New England, Australia; and David C. Paton, University of
Adelaide, Australia
Dr Nick Reid is Emeritus Professor in Ecosystem Management and former Head of the School of Environmental and Rural Science at the University of New England, Australia. His research interests span the stewardship of socialecological systems, biodiversity management in production landscapes and protected areas, ecosystem restoration and sustainable agriculture.
Dr Rhiannon Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management in the School of Environmental and Rural Science at the University of New England. Her research focuses particularly on the measurement and management of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Australian agricultural sector.
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