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  1. Across the EU, common agri-environment schemes (AES) comprise measures such as organic farming, which prohibits synthetic agrochemicals, and wildflower strips.<\/li>\n
  2. We evaluated the ecological and economic effectiveness of non-productive annual wildflower strips adjacent to conventional wheat fields and productive organic wheat fields. Our study spanned nine landscapes, each containing three types of winter wheat fields: conventional with a wildflower strip, conventional without strip as a control (no AES) and organic field. Over 2\u2009years, we surveyed plants and sampled carabids, spiders and rove beetles using pitfall traps, and wild bees and hoverflies via transect walks and sweep netting along field edges. Farmers provided revenue, cost and profit data.<\/li>\n
  3. Organic farming harboured the highest number of wild arable plant species, even though flower strips achieved similar species richness when including sown plant species. Flower strips were visited by three times more bee species than organic fields, while both AES exceeded controls. Carabids, spiders and hoverflies showed higher species richness under both AES, with 20%\u201330% more species than controls, whereas rove beetles showed no significant differences among management types. Both AES enhanced farmland biodiversity, with partly distinct plant and arthropod community compositions. Flower strips, organic fields and conventional fields had 28%, 12% and 3% unique species, respectively.<\/li>\n
  4. Economically, organic fields were the most profitable, with profits over 150% higher than those of conventional control fields, despite 50% lower wheat yields, due to better marketing opportunities and AES subsidies (234 \u20ac\/ha). Profit of flower strip fields was only slightly lower than that of the control when flower strip subsidies (875 \u20ac\/ha) were included. We also compared the profits solely for the wheat-growing area, excluding flower strips. Profits from control fields were 21% higher, prompting suspicion that farmers implemented flower strips selectively on more marginal, less productive land.<\/li>\n
  5. Synthesis and applications. Integrating agri-environment schemes such as organic farming and wildflower strips offers complementary effects on biodiversity conservation. Implementing these schemes enhanced biodiversity by 20%\u201330%, while maintaining economic viability and similar profits\/ha through premium pricing and subsidies. Their combined implementation could be a valuable future step for achieving multifunctional agricultural landscapes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","anno":[11378],"ente_che_ha_curato_la_pubblicazi":[11106],"economia":[],"parole_chiave":[11420,11544,6500,6499,10893,6496],"produzioni":[],"Regioni":[],"sistema_di_controllo":[],"tecniche_produttive":[11100],"class_list":["post-96204","pubblicazioni","type-pubblicazioni","status-publish","hentry","anno-11378","ente_che_ha_curato_la_pubblicazi-journal-of-applied-ecology","parole_chiave-agri-environment-schemes","parole_chiave-arthropods","parole_chiave-landscape","parole_chiave-pollinators","parole_chiave-subsidies","parole_chiave-yelds","tecniche_produttive-gestione-del-suolo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nComparing ecological and economic benefits of organic farming and annual flower strips - Sinab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sinab.it\/pubblicazioni\/comparing-ecological-and-economic-benefits-of-organic-farming-and-annual-flower-strips\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Comparing ecological and economic benefits of organic farming and annual flower strips - Sinab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Across the EU, common agri-environment schemes (AES) comprise measures such as organic farming, which prohibits synthetic agrochemicals, and wildflower strips. 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