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Titre :	Governing nature by numbers - EU subsidy regulations do not capture the unique values of woody pastures
Auteurs :	Simon Jakobsson, Auteur ; Regina Lindborg, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Biological Conservation (191 NOV 2015)
Article en page(s) :	1-9
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	A vast majority of European farmers are dependent on EU subsidies, which makes subsidy regulations through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) powerful tools in shaping agricultural landscapes. Unfortunately, steering recommendations are sometimes arbitrary, like in the case of pasture management, where 50 trees per hectare constitute an upper limit to qualify for subsidies. Although pasture biodiversity is well studied and the core of many CAP conservation programmes, it is seldom studied as direct effects of subsidy systems. In this paper, we examine plant diversity in relation to the impact of subsidy systems in Swedish woody pastures along a gradient from 3 to 214 trees per hectare. We selected

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