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Wild bees provide essential pollination services to both agricultural crops and wild flowering plant species. The decline of bee species has been associated with a number different threats, primarily the loss natural habitats. Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust (DF&WT), non-profit conservation organization, incentivizes farmers hedgerows consisting native shrubs trees on edge their production fiel...

Worldwide conservation goals to protect biodiversity emphasize the need to rethink which objectives are most suitable for different landscapes. Comparing two different Swedish farming landscapes, we used survey data on birds and vascular plants to test whether landscapes with large, intensively managed farms had lower richness and diversity of the two taxa than landscapes with less intensively ...