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Vulnerability of Ecosystem Services in Farmland Depends on Landscape Management

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Forty-four percent of Europe’s terrestrial surface is covered with agricultural land. Thus, agriculture strongly influences Europe’s environment, including ecological functions and processes.

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Acknowledgements

Aliette Bosem Baillod was supported by a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Svenja Bänsch acknowledges her scholarship by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) and Péter Batáry was funded through the DFG (BA 4438/2-1) and by the Economic Development and Innovation Operational Programme of Hungary (GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00019). Aliette Bosem Baillod and Annika Hass were supported by the ERA-Net BiodivERsA project “FarmLand” funded by the BMBF (German Ministry of Research and Education, FKZ: 01LC1104A).

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  1. Agroecology, Department of Crop Sciences, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Jacqueline Loos

  2. Institute of Ecology, Faculty of Sustainability Science, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany

    Jacqueline Loos

  3. Agroecology, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Péter Batáry, Ingo Grass, Catrin Westphal, Svenja Bänsch, Aliette Bosem Baillod, Annika L. Hass, Julia Rosa & Teja Tscharntke

  4. Landscape and Conservation Ecology Research Group, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Tihany, Hungary

    Péter Batáry

  5. Agricultural Landscapes and Biodiversity Group, Research Station Agroscope Reckenholz-Taenikon ART, Zürich, Switzerland

    Aliette Bosem Baillod

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  1. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Matthias Schröter

  2. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Aletta Bonn

  3. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Stefan Klotz

  4. Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Ralf Seppelt

  5. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Cornelia Baessler

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Loos, J. et al. (2019). Vulnerability of Ecosystem Services in Farmland Depends on Landscape Management. In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (eds) Atlas of Ecosystem Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96229-0_15

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