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  • About WrEN
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    • The history of WrEN
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    • Wildlife & habitat surveys
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  • Funding & Support
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  • Related projects
    • TreE PlaNat
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    • Temporal & spatial spillovers
    • Woodland soils
    • Trees outside Woodlands
    • Woodland bats & landscape context
  • Blog

Temporal & spatial spillovers

Evaluating the costs and benefits of landscape-scale conservation in farmed landscapes

In this Leverhulme funded project, the WrEN team have joined forces with Prof. Nick Hanley at Glasgow and Dr Tom Finch at RSPB. We are employing a combination of ecological science with economics to quantify the biodiversity consequences and economic costs of competing landscape-scale conservation strategies.
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There is currently much debate on how to conserve biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, but understanding how to achieve this effectively is undermined by a lack of information on three types of spill-over effects (Fig. 1): spatial (effects of adjacent agriculture on wildlife in adjacent semi-natural habitats), temporal (arising the effects of past land use on current biodiversity) and behavioural (e.g. landowner decisions).

We are using a variety of data sources on biodiversity in agricultural landscapes (including the WrEN project), maps of agricultural intensity land-use, national farm data and historic land-use maps. We will explicitly incorporate ecological and economic spill-overs in an integrated model to examine the effects of landscape-level biodiversity conservation strategies.
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The potential influence of spill-overs on farmland biodiversity
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