Sensitivity of the farmland bird community to crop diversification in Sweden: does the CAP fit?

Summary Crop diversification has been introduced as an environmental strategy in the ‘Greening’ of the EU Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP ) for 2015–2020. The primary target of crop diversification is soil and ecosystem resilience, but claims for potential benefits for farmland biodiversity are also common. However, understanding of relationships between the number (compositional heterogeneity) and spatial arrangement (configurational...