Contains posts on farmland ecology research, with emphasis on farmland wildlife and practical conservation. Content features research and updates from my research, conference reports and relevant articles.
Field margins and beetle banks have featured for quite some time as a conservation action for farmland wildlife in arable systems. They have well-documented benefits for plant diversity, invertebrate diversity and as habitat and feeding area for a variety of mammals and birds. Our research group is also interested in field margins - but in grazed grassland systems.
