Extensive evidence shows that landscape structure significantly influences farmland biodiversity and can alter the effectiveness of sustainable agricultural practices. In this talk, I will explore how not only the quantity but also the size and arrangement of natural and semi-natural landscape elements are crucial in shaping biodiversity and the ecosystem services they provide.
Péter Batáry is a trained ecologist with a PhD from the University of Debrecen, Hungary, and habilitation from the University of Göttingen, Germany. He is a member of Academia Europaea. As a scientific advisor at the HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, he focuses on conservation biology-oriented research at the landscape scale. He is interested in agroecology, urban ecology, and how environmental interventions can be aligned with production or development. His Landscape and Conservation Ecology research group conducts extensive research in both urban and rural settings, with major fields including grassland fragmentation and management studies, the biological effectiveness of agri-environment schemes, pest control and pollination, and meta-analyses.
