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Impacts of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

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Over the past decades, the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy has been supporting farmers. At the same time, one could observe a sharp decline in farmland-biodiversity.

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  • Common agricultural policy
  • Greening
  • Ecological focus areas
  • Biodiversity
  • Agri-environment schemes

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  1. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Sebastian Lakner & Carsten Holst

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

    Andreas Dittrich

  3. German Environment Agency, Section National and International Environmental Reporting, Dessau-Rosslau, Germany

    Christian Hoyer

  4. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Guy Pe’er

  5. Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Guy Pe’er

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

    Guy Pe’er

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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

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Lakner, S., Holst, C., Dittrich, A., Hoyer, C., Pe’er, G. (2019). Impacts of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. 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_58

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