20.500.12556/RUL-122141 Do the EUʼs Common agricultural policy funds negatively affect the diversity of farmland birds? evidence from Slovenia The paper investigates the relative influence of landscape characteristics, production intensity and the EU’s Common agricultural policy interventions on the diversity of farmland birds. For this purpose, data from the Farmland Bird Monitoring Scheme in Slovenia and high spatial resolution data from the national agricultural databases in the period 2008–2019 were analysed with the Boosted Regression Trees (BRT). The diversity of farmland birds was found to be highest in open, diversely cropped and extensively to moderately intensively managed landscapes in Natura 2000 sites where farm holdings were allocated a low average amount of both direct payments and payments for agri-environmental measures (AEM) and organic farming (OF). Furthermore, the highest diversity of the subgroup of grassland specialists was associated with very open and extensively managed grassland landscapes with low stocking density (<0.7 LU/ha). By contrast, the diversity of habitat generalists was highest in heterogeneous landscapes with a high diversity of land-use types, measured at the broader spatial scale. Areas with a higher allocation of direct payments and payments for AEM and OF were associated with lower farmland bird diversity, whereas high diversity was found in Natura 2000 sites and in some areas with natural constraints (LFA). Agri-environmental measures and the “Greening” measures had a negligible relative influence on bird diversity, possibly due to ineffective implementation and low uptake by beneficiaries. The intensification of production, particularly in the beef and dairy sectors, which has been supported by the Common agricultural policy direct payments, and forest succession in marginal areas were identified as the potential key drivers of the recent farmland biodiversity loss in Slovenia. The future CAP income support schemes should be redesigned to ensure at least neutral if not positive overall effects on farmland biodiversity by gradual phasing-out of references to (historic) production levels, increased conditionality and more effective voluntary agri-environmental measures. farmland birds land use change common agricultural policy agri-environment schemes Natura 2000 boosted regression trees kmetijstvo kmetijske površine ptice skupna kmetijska politika CAP EU Slovenija varstvo okolja true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2020-11-25 14:56:50 2020-11-25 14:56:51 2022-09-02 04:02:32 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2021 0 0 14 str. art. 107200 Vol. 306 2021 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 631:502 0167-8809 10.1016/j.agee.2020.107200 36426499 24910848 RAZ_Sumrada_Tanja_2021.pdf RAZ_Sumrada_Tanja_2021.pdf 1 1CE98AE9E8AE03A10F9059834FC03F69 7619a2551b0bad37fa320079c01a5b96cec39c63569f03e56b63d9b9a68416c6 10cb03b7-a1bb-11eb-a523-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=137313 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880920303868 0 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=137312 Biotehniška fakulteta 0 0 0