👩‍🌾🐰Agroecosystem quality as an essential driver of European hare Lepus europaeus population density in contrasting farmlands

📷 © Jan Cukor

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#AgeStructure #AgriculturalIntensification #FarmlandSpecialists #HabitatHeterogeneity #Landscape Homogenization

#Agriculturalintensification has disappeared many natural ponds across the UK, 10 400 of 17 200 in one county alone. Ponds dried up/shaded over/dominated by brambles have been opened up to sunlight & dug out & now teem with rare aquatic plants/dragonflies/great-crested newts. Before/after photos