Strategies in Bird Conservation within the Context of Agricultural Intensification

Agricultural intensification involves increasing resources like seeds, labor, fertilizers, pesticides, technologies, and knowledge to boost crop or livestock yields on a given land area. This can include adopting new pesticides in large-scale farming or enhancing traditional knowledge of local farming practices.Farmland birds have been particularly affected by agricultural intensification, namely by the degradation of habitats and reduction of resources. From fields and farms to landscapes and regions, habitat simplification, pesticides, and fertilizers proved detrimental for farmland specialists, farmland bird biomass, and overall diversity.Various land management ideas were proposed to balance crop production with farmland bird conservation, such as wildlife farming and land sparing. Also, it has been suggested that mixed farms (e.g. integrating livestock and crop production) can work as hotspots for endangered farmland birds, especially within landscapes devoted to intensified crops.This SI objective is to provide a comprehensive collection of articles focusing on this problem, including theoretical approaches, monitoring and modeling studies, and new ideas discussing the best practices to upsurge food production for increasing world population without disregarding the conservation of farmland birds and their important ecosystem services.If you are interested in submitting or have any questions, please contact the journal email: birdscience@frontiersin.org Topic editors: Mário Gabriel Santiago Santos, Tyler Andrew Hallman, Andrea Paula Goijman, Mieke TItulaer Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/66812/strategies-in-bird-conservation-within-the-context-of-agricultural-intensification