Resources on the general effects of organic agriculture on biodiversity
Scientific Results
- Beneficial and pest insects associated with ten flowering plant species grown in Québec, Canada
- Biodiversity and multiple ecosystem functions in an organic farmscape
- Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (2010) 139: 89-97
- Biodiversity in Organic Horticulture – an Indicator for Sustainability and a Tool for Pest Management
- Acta Horticulturae (2008) 767:75-80
- Comparing direct land use impacts on biodiversity of conventional and organic milk—based on a Swedish case study
- The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2013)
- Crop rotational diversity enhances belowground communities and functions in an agroecosystem
- Ecology Letters (2015) 18: 761-771
- Decreased Functional Diversity and Biological Pest Control in Conventional Compared to Organic Crop Fields
- PLoS ONE (2011) 6(5): e19502
- Delivery of floral resources and pollination services on farmland under three different wildlife-friendly schemes
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2016) 220: 142-151
- Diversification practices reduce organic to conventional yield gap
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences (2015) 282: 1799
- Does organic farming benefit biodiversity?
- Biological Conservation (2005) 122: 113–130
- Does organic farming enhance biodiversity in Mediterranean vineyards? A case study with bats and arachnids
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2017) 249: 112-122
- Does organic grassland farming benefit plant and arthropod diversity at the expense of yield and soil fertility?
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2013) 177: 1-9
- The effects of organic agriculture on biodiversity and abundance: a meta-analysis
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2005) 42: 261-269
- Effects of organic and conventional crop management on vineyard biodiversity
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2017) 243: 19-26
- Effects of vineyard management on biodiversity at three trophic levels
- Biological Conservation (2010) 143: 1521-1528
- Environmentally friendly management as an intermediate strategy between organic and conventional agriculture to support biodiversity
- Biological Conservation (2014) 178: 146-154
- Evaluation of wildlife management through organic farming
- Ecological Engineering (2011) 37: 2009-2017
- Farmland biodiversity and agricultural management on 237 farms in 13 European and two African regions
- Farmlands with smaller crop fields have higher within-field biodiversity
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2015) 200: 219-234
- Food production vs. biodiversity: comparing organic and conventional agriculture
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2013) 50: 355-364
- Food security and biodiversity: can we have both? An agroecological analysis
- Agriculture and Human Values (2011) 28: 3-26
- Functional agrobiodiversity and agroecosystem services in sustainable wheat production. A review
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development (2013)
- Functional Biodiversity in Organic Systems: The Way Forward?
- Sustainable Agriculture Research (2015) 4: 26-31
- Gains to species diversity in organically farmed fields are not propagated at the farm level
- Nature Communications (2014) 5: 4151
- Land-use intensity and the effects of organic farming on biodiversity: a hierarchical meta-analysis
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2014) 51: 746-755
- Long-term organic farming fosters below and aboveground biota: Implications for soil quality, biological control and productivity
- Soil Biology and Biochemistry (2008) 40: 2297-2308
- A macro-scale perspective on within-farm management: how climate and topography alter the effect of farming practices
- Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 1263-1272
- Mixed effects of organic farming and landscape complexity on farmland biodiversity and biological control potential across Europe
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2011) 48: 570-579
- Natural and within-farmland biodiversity enhances crop productivity
- Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 251-259
- Organic agriculture promotes evenness and natural pest control
- Nature (2010) 466: 109-112
- Organic Farming: Biodiversity Impacts Can Depend on Dispersal Characteristics and Landscape Context
- PLoS ONE (2015) 10(8): e0135921
- Responses of plants, earthworms, spiders and bees to geographic location, agricultural management and surrounding landscape in European arable fields
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2014) 186: 124-134
- Scale matters: the impact of organic farming on biodiversity at different spatial scales
- Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 858-869
- Seeds in farmland food-webs: Resource importance, distribution and the impacts of farm management
- Biological Conservation (2011) 144: 2941-2950
- Soil Fertility and Biodiversity in Organic Farming
- Science (2002) 296: 1694-1697
- Trophic structure and major trophic links in conventional versus organic farming systems as indicated by carbon stable isotope ratios of fatty acids
- Oikos (2009) 118: 1579-1589
Resources on the effects of organic agriculture on the biodiversity of specific groups