Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27334103›Full record

ReviewAmbio2016

State-of-the-art practices in farmland biodiversity monitoring for North America and Europe.

Felix Herzog, Janet Franklin

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Review in Ambio, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Biodiversity isn't measured in tons: Making sense of nature in the context of sustainable agriculture.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Felix HerzogAgroscope, Reckenholzstr. 191, 8046, Zurich, Switzerland. felix.herzog@agroscope.admin.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9472-4891
Janet FranklinSchool of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 875302, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Agroscope · CHArizona State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Policy makers and farmers need to know the status of farmland biodiversity in order to meet conservation goals and evaluate management options. Based on a review of 11 monitoring programs in Europe and North America and on related literature, we identify the design choices or attributes of a program that balance monitoring costs and usefulness for stakeholders. A useful program monitors habitats, vascular plants, and possibly faunal groups (ecosystem service providers, charismatic species) using a stratified random sample of the agricultural landscape, including marginal and intensive regions. The size of landscape samples varies with the grain of the agricultural landscape; for example, samples are smaller in Europe and larger in North America. Raw data are collected in a rolling survey, which distributes sampling over several years. Sufficient practical experience is now available to implement broad monitoring schemes on both continents. Technological developments in remote sensing, metagenomics, and social media may offer new opportunities for affordable farmland biodiversity monitoring and help to lower the overall costs of monitoring programs.

Indexed as

BiodiversityAgricultureAnimalsConservation of Natural ResourcesEnvironmental MonitoringFarmsGovernment RegulationNorth AmericaPolicy MakingAgricultural landscapeEcosystem serviceEssential biodiversity variablesMonitoring budgetStakeholder needSurvey design

Identifiers

PMID27334103
PMCPMC5102971
OpenAlexW2471606746

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.