Essays about: "landscape Heterogeneity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the words landscape Heterogeneity.

  1. 1. Exploring heterogeneity in farmers’ willingness to cooperate in four EU member states: Insights from public goods games : insights from public goods games

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Johannes Martin Amon; [2023]
    Keywords : Agri-environment-climate measures; Cooperation; Common Agricultural Policy; Finite mixture model;

    Abstract : Agri-environment-climate measures (AECMs), as part of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy, incentivize environmentally friendly farming practices for multiple ecosystem services provision. However, AECMs are criticised for their low cost-effectiveness. READ MORE

  3. 2. Carabidocoenoses and Fragments of Forests : exploring the Carabid Landscape

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Simon Heinrich Arns; [2023]
    Keywords : biodiversity; Carabidae; carabid diversity; entomology; Fragmentation; Fragstats; habitat fragmentation; habitat Heterogeneity; landscape; landscape ecology; landscape Heterogeneity; pitfall trap; quantifying fragmentation;

    Abstract : Epigeic ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) were sampled between 2021-06-28 and 2021-07-09 using pitfall traps in the Swedish counties Värmland and Gävleborg. The structural properties of the landscapes surrounding these points were estimated from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency’s national land cover databases and the Swedish Forest Agency’s data for all formally protected and high conservation value forests using patch-based configurational metrics. READ MORE

  4. 3. Platsspecifika kvaliteter i transformationsprocesser : narrativ om Hafenareal i Basel, Schweiz

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Linnéa Lundström; [2023]
    Keywords : postindustriell transformation; hamnomvandling; platsspecifika kvaliteter; narrativ; landskapsarkitektur;

    Abstract : Omvandlingen av postindustriella hamnområden har under de senaste decennierna sett snarlik ut i städer världen över. Stadsbyggnadsidealet om den täta blandstaden har resulterat i en generell utveckling från industrilandskap till högprofilerade waterfronts, vars gestaltning tar marginell hänsyn till existerande platsspecifika värden. READ MORE

  5. 4. To what extent are Hungarian farmers willing to cooperate on agri-environmental schemes? : experimental evidence from a public goods game

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Lesly Neema Nassila; [2022]
    Keywords : public goods game; experimental economics; Hungary; collaboration; collective agri-environmental contracts;

    Abstract : European Union agri-environmental measures fail to deliver expected benefits despite playing a central role in mitigating the negative effects of agriculture on biodiversity and the environment. Implementing agri-environmental contracts following a landscape-scale rather than an individual�farm level approach could potentially contribute to improving their environmental performance. READ MORE

  6. 5. Using the AudioMoth - a novel passive acoustic monitoring technology - to monitor bat diversity in a rewilded landscape

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies

    Author : Koen Pronk; [2022]
    Keywords : passive acoustic monitoring; bioindicator; chiroptera; audioMoth; trophic rewilding;

    Abstract : Ecosystem restoration through the reintroduction of grazers is gaining interest across Europe. Large herbivores are associated with landscape heterogeneity, restoration of trophic cascades and biodiversity. READ MORE