Adriana Hološková

Charles University in Prague | CUNI · Institute for Environmental Studies

European farmland serves as a crucial habitat for many organisms, but the transition from extensive to intensive agriculture has led to a loss of biodiversity that also concerned farmland birds. Intensification has various aspects including landscape homogenisation, whereby large field blocks are created in once heterogeneous landscapes that tradit...

Organic farming is considered beneficial for farmland biodiversity. However, it is often unclear what specific factors are underlying the biodiversity benefits of this farming practice. The positive effects may be driven by factors acting at the field level represented by, for instance, the absence of pesticides, or by the factors acting at the lev...

The decline of farmland bird populations is a well-documented phenomenon that has primarily been attributed to agricultural intensification. However, the specific mechanisms that make intensively used farmland unsuitable for breeding birds have not yet been satisfactorily elucidated, particularly for insectivorous ground-nesting species. To bridge...

Arable land covers a large part of the European landscape, and its biodiversity is declining rapidly due to agricultural intensification. Among the most threatened groups of organisms are insectivorous ground-foraging farmland birds. To reverse their decline, it is necessary to understand the impact of agriculture on the factors potentially shaping...

Populations of insectivorous farmland birds have recently undergone dramatic declines most likely caused by agricultural intensification. It is thus important to assess the impacts of agricultural intensification on food supply for these species and to uncover the links between changes in food supply and abundance of insectivorous farmland birds. S...