La Tour du Valat

Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	Managing agricultural change for biodiversity conservation in a Mediterranean upland
Auteurs :	Jocelyn Fonderflick, Auteur ; Jacques Lepart, Auteur ; Paul Caplat, Auteur ; Max Debussche, Auteur ; Pascal Marty, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Biological Conservation (143(3) MAR 2010)
Article en page(s) :	737-746
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	In Europe, land use changes follow public policies, and particularly the Common Agricultural Policy. To predict the effect of policies on agricultural practices, landscape, and ultimately biodiversity, requires understanding of the interactions between social, economic and ecological dynamics at regional scale. We studied by means of prospective scenarios the possible effects of agricultural changes on biodiversity in a Mediterranean upland. This area is characterised by extensive grasslands that have been maintained for centuries by agriculture and are now threatened by tree and shrub encroachment. We built four scenarios that describe possible changes in agricultural EU policies by 2030. We selected 15 bird species on the basis of a high natural heritage responsibility of the study area for these species and

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