Small woody features in agricultural areas: Agroforestry systems of overlooked significance in Europe

Judit Rubio-Delgado, Susanne Schnabel, J. Francisco Lavado-Contador and Ulrich Schmutz

Agricultural Systems, 2024, vol. 218, issue C

Abstract: Small woody features (SWF), as field boundaries, hedgerows, or riparian buffers, are crucial for agricultural landscapes and, frequently, disregarded. In combination with agricultural land uses they are considered agroforestry systems (AFSWF), but their spatial distribution and detailed location of SWF types are insufficiently known in the EU as to support agricultural policies or enhance the development of farming practices for biodiversity conservation or productivity management.

Keywords: Agroforestry; Woody landscape features; European agriculture; Spatial analysis; LUCAS data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2024.103973

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