Behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic
Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy

Here, you will find all public BESTMAP deliverables as well as all scientific publications resulting from or relevant to the project.

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Spatially-explicit biodiversity models help unpack the varying effectiveness of Agri-Environment Measures

Authors: Stephanie Roilo

Year: 2025

Journal: Landscape Online

Volume/Issue: 100

Publisher/Place: IALE-D

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.3097/LO.2025.1144

Global impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on biodiversity data collection

Authors: Stephanie Roilo, Jan O. Engler, Anna F. Cord

Year: 2025

Journal: Scientific Reports

Volume/Issue: 15

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-93275-z

Functional responses in habitat selection as a management tool to evaluate agri-environment schemes for farmland birds

Authors: Ryo Ogawa, Jan O. Engler, Anna F. Cord

Year: 2024

Journal: Ecological Modelling

Volume/Issue: Volume 494

Publisher/Place: ELSEVIER

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110778

Quantifying agricultural land-use intensity for spatial biodiversity modelling: implications of different metrics and spatial aggregation methods

Authors: Stephanie Roilo, Anne Paulus, Viviana Alarcón-Segura, Lucas Kock, Michael Beckmann, Nadja Klein & Anna F. Cord

Year: 2024

Journal: Landscape Ecology

Volume/Issue: 39, 55

Publisher/Place: Springer Link

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01853-9

The untapped potential of camera traps for farmland biodiversity monitoring: current practice and outstanding agroecological questions

Authors: Stephanie Roilo, Tim R. Hofmeester, Magali Frauendorf, Anna Widén, Anna F. Cord

Year: 2024

Journal: Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation

Publisher/Place: Zoological Society of London

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.426

A cross-regional analysis of red-backed shrike responses to agri-environmental schemes in Europe

Authors: Stephanie Roilo, Rebecca Spake, James M. Bullock and Anna F. Cord

Year: 2024

Journal: Environmental Research Letters

Volume/Issue: 19, 3

Publisher/Place: IOP Science

Pages: 034004

URL/DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad264a

Farm typologies for understanding farm systems and improving agricultural policy

Authors: Robert Huber, Bartosz Bartkowski, Calum Brown, Nadja El Benni, Jan-Henning Feil, Pascal Grohmann, Ineke Joormann, Heidi Leonhardt, Hermine Mitter, Birgit Müller

Year: 2024

Journal: Agricultural Systems

Volume/Issue: 213

Publisher/Place: Elsevier

Pages: 103800

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103800

Farming system archetypes help explain the uptake of agri-environment practices in Europe

Authors: Tomáš Václavík, Michael Beckmann, Marek Bednář, Sanja Brdar, George Breckenridge, Anna F. Cord, Cristina Domingo-Marimon, Arjan Gosal, Fanny Langerwisch, Anne Paulus, Stephanie Roilo, Bořivoj Šarapatka, Guy Ziv, Tomáš Čejka

Year: 2024

Journal: Environmental Research Letters

Volume/Issue: Volume 19, Number 7

Publisher/Place: IOP Publishing

URL/DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad4efa

Farm structure and environmental context drive farmers’ decisions on the spatial distribution of ecological focus areas in Germany

Authors: Alarcón-Segura, V., Roilo, S., Beckmann, M., Klein, N., Cord, F.A.

Year: 2023

Journal: Landscape Ecology

Volume/Issue: 8

Publisher/Place: Springer

Pages: 1-13

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01709-8

Archetypes in support of tailoring land-use policies

Authors: Christoph Oberlack, Simona Pedde, Luigi Piemontese, Tomáš Václavík and Diana Sietz

Year: 2023

Journal: Environmental Research Letters

Volume/Issue: 18

Publisher/Place: IOP Science

Pages: 060202

URL/DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acd802

Delineating the spatial drivers of agri-environment scheme adoption at field and farm levels

Authors: Rosemary Wool, George Breckenridge, Guy Ziv, Arjan S. Gosal

Year: 2023

Journal: Journal of Environmental Management

Volume/Issue: 348

Publisher/Place: Elsevier

Pages: 119407

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119407

Adoption and potential of agri-environmental schemes in Europe: Cross-regional evidence from interviews with farmers

Authors: Bartkowski, B., Beckmann, M., Bednář, M., Biffi, S., Domingo-Marimon, C., Mesaroš, M., Schüßler, C., Šarapatka, B., Tarčak, S., Václavík, T., Ziv, G., & Wittstock, F.

Year: 2023

Journal: People and Nature

Publisher/Place: British Ecological Society

Pages: 1-12

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10526

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Upscaling in socio-environmental systems modelling: Current challenges, promising strategies and insights from ecology

Authors: Gunnar Dressler, Jurgen Groeneveld, Jessica Hetzer, Anja Janischewski, Henning Nolzen, Edna Rodig, Nina Schwarz, Franziska Taubert, Jule Thober, Meike Will, Tim Williams, Stephen Bjorn Wirth, Birgit Muller

Year: 2022

Journal: Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling

Volume/Issue: 4

Pages: 18112

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.18174/sesmo.18112

Response of endangered bird species to land-use changes in an agricultural landscape in Germany

Authors: Jungandreas A, Roilo S, Strauch M, Vaclavik T, Volk M & Cord A.

Year: 2022

Journal: Regional Environmental Change volume

Volume/Issue: 22/19

Publisher/Place: Springer

URL/DOI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-022-01878-3#article-info

Typologies of European farmers: approaches, methods and research gaps

Authors: Bartkowski, B., Schüßler, C. & Müller, B.

Year: 2022

Journal: Regional Environmental Change

Volume/Issue: 22

Publisher/Place: Springer

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-022-01899-y

Understanding the accuracy of modelled changes in freshwater provision over time

Authors: Gosal, S.A., Evans, M.P., Bullock, M.J., Redhead, J., Charlton, B.M., Cord, F.A., Johnson, A. & Ziv, G.

Year: 2022

Journal: Science of The Total Environment

Volume/Issue: 833

Publisher/Place: Elsevier

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155042

Frustrated or fulfilled? Motivation of Czech farmers to implement climate change adaptation measures on the landscape level

Authors: Meierová, T., Chvátalová, V.

Year: 2022

Journal: Journal of Rural Studies

Volume/Issue: 92

Pages: 354-370

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.04.013

Archetypes of agri-environmental potential: a multi-scale typology for spatial stratification and upscaling in Europe

Authors: Beckmann, M., Didenko, G., Bullock, M. J., Cord, F. A., Paulus, A., Ziv, G., Václavík T.

Year: 2022

Journal: Environmental research letters

Volume/Issue: 17(11)

Publisher/Place: IOP Science

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9cf5

Landscape-level heterogeneity of agri-environment measures improves habitat suitability for farmland birds

Authors: Roilo, S., Engler, O. J., Václavík, T., Cord, F. A.

Year: 2022

Journal: Ecological Applications

Publisher/Place: The Ecological Society of America

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2720

Landscape context and farm characteristics are key to farmers' adoption of agri-environmental schemes

Authors: Paulus, A., Hagemann, N., Baaken, C. M., Roilo, S., Alarcón-Segura, V., Cord, F. A., Beckmann, M.

Year: 2022

Journal: Land Use Policy

Volume/Issue: 121

Publisher/Place: Elsevier

Pages: 106320

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106320