Despite recent efforts, agricultural production continues to threaten biodiversity, disrupt delivery of key ecosystem services and contribute to climate change. A more regenerative approach is required to enable farmers to restore and work with the ecosystem services that underpin sustainable farming and food production. Biodiversity lies at the heart of this process.

Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: Conservation, restoration and rewilding considers the range of techniques that can be implemented to improve biodiversity in farmland. It synthesises current research on the best ways to plan, implement and monitor ecological restoration projects as well as the role of government agri-environment schemes. The book also assesses what we know about the use and impact of individual conservation practices, such as field margins and hedgerows, and ways of successfully rewilding farmland.

Contributions by: Andrew Bennett, Gary Howling, Geoff Squire, Theodore Alter, David Johnson, Jane Morrison, Ian Montgomery, Sara Burbi, Ruth Little, Gordon Rausser, Dean Ansell, Liz Lewis-Reddy, Ruurd van Diggelen, Thomas Jones, David Lindenmayer, Adrian Manning, Joanna Lambert, Chris Dickman