Title: Agriculture and biodiversity :
Authors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; OECD Expert Meeting on Agri-biodiversity Indicators
Date: 2003
Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
Physical description: 278 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: S
Contents: OECD agri-biodiversity indicators: background paper / Kevin Parris -- Biological diversity of livestock and crops: useful classification and appropriate agri-environmental indicators / Frank Wetterich -- Developing biodiversity indicators for livestock in Greece / A. Georgoudis [and others] -- Plant genetic resources and agri-biodiversity in the Czech Republic / Ladislav Dotlacil [et al.] -- Wild flora and fauna in Irish agro-ecosystems: a practical perspective on indicator selection / Jane Feehan -- An agricultural habitat indicator for wildlife in Korea / Jin-Han Kim [et al.]. Using bird data to develop biodiversity indicators for agriculture / Melanie Heath and Matthew Rayment -- Overview of biodiversity indicators related to agriculture in Belgium / Visi García Cidad [and others] -- Eco-Fauna-Database: a tool for both selecting indicator species for land use and estimating impacts of land use on animal species / Thomas Walter and Karin Schneider -- Estimating wildlife habitat trends on agricultural ecosystems in the United States / Stephen J. Brady and Curtis H. Flather. Monitoring habitat change in Japanese agricultural systems / David S. Sprague -- National and regional level farmland biodiversity indicators in Finland / Mikko Kuussaari and Janne Heliölä -- Developing habitat accounts: an application of the United Kingdom Countryside Surveys / Andrew Stott -- Agri-biodiversity indicators: a view from Unilever Sustainable Agriculture Initiative / Gail Smith and David Pendlington -- Indicators of agri-biodiversity: Australia's experience / James Walcott, Jean Chesson, and Peter O'Brien. Using biological and land use information to develop indicators of habitat availability on farmland / Terence McRae and Ted Weins -- Assessing biodiversity in the United States agricultural ecosystems / Michael J. Mac -- The state of agro-biodiversity in the Netherlands: integrating habitat and species indicators / Ben ten Brink.
Notes: A selection of papers from the OECD Expert Meeting on Agri-biodiversity Indicators, held 5-8 November, 2001 in Zurich, Switzerland, under the auspices of the OECD Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Environment.
Subject headings (LCSH): Agricultural conservation--Government policy--Congresses.; Agricultural ecology--Government policy--Congresses.; Agriculture and state--OECD countries--Congresses.; Agrobiodiversity conservation--Government policy--Congresses.; Agrobiodiversity--Congresses.; Agrobiodiversity--Government policy--Congresses.; Biodiversity--Congresses; Habitat (Ecology)--Congresses.; Science indicators--OECD countries--Congresses.; Sustainable agriculture.; Sustainable development.