Grassland butterflies and low intensity farming in Europe

In this paper we describe the impact of the abandonment of traditional farming practices on butterflies and their habitats in traditional, often montane, pastoral systems. We link these declines to socioeconomic factors: illustrating how the failure of the CAP to support traditional farming leads to...

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Published inJournal of insect conservation Vol. 15; no. 1-2; pp. 129 - 137
Main Authors Dover, J. W., Spencer, S., Collins, S., Hadjigeorgiou, I., Rescia, A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.04.2011
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Agricultural practices
Animal Ecology
Biodiversity
Biological diversity
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Butterflies & moths
Conservation
Conservation biology
Conservation Biology/Ecology
Entomology
Farming
Grasslands
Habitat
Habitats
insects
Land use
Life Sciences
Original Paper
Pastoralism
Socio-economic aspects
Socioeconomics
Statistics
Streams
Traditional farming
Europe
Grassland
Europe
Common Agricultural Policy
Traditional management
Abandonment
Butterflies
Land-use change
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Summary:In this paper we describe the impact of the abandonment of traditional farming practices on butterflies and their habitats in traditional, often montane, pastoral systems. We link these declines to socioeconomic factors: illustrating how the failure of the CAP to support traditional farming leads to structural changes in farming enterprises—features which may be obscured by crude statistics on stock. We then call for the scheduled CAP reforms in 2013 to be radically realigned to support rather than destroy biodiversity so that any new EU agri-biodiversity commitments have an effective funding stream to support them.
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ISSN:1366-638X
1572-9753
DOI:10.1007/s10841-010-9332-0