Unsprayed field margins: effects on environment, biodiversity and agricultural practice

Agriculture & Biology

• spray drift 100%
• edge effects 76%
• farming systems 56%
• biodiversity 56%
• potatoes 52%
• farmers 48%
• sugar beet 46%
• winter wheat 43%
• spraying 43%
• crops 36%
• soil invertebrates 33%
• cost benefit analysis 30%
• agronomy 28%
• psychology 28%
• arable soils 26%
• aquatic organisms 26%
• interviews 22%
• invertebrates 19%
• flora 19%
• herbicides 18%
• pesticides 18%
• buffers 18%
• vertebrates 17%
• vegetation 17%
• grasses 16%
• insects 14%
• birds 13%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• field margin 94%
• agricultural practice 75%
• potato 60%
• pesticide 60%
• biodiversity 49%
• sugar beet 48%
• crop 37%
• wheat 31%
• invertebrate 29%
• arable farming 25%
• agronomy 24%
• winter 20%
• cost-benefit analysis 20%
• buffer zone 20%
• psychology 19%
• arable land 19%
• floristics 19%
• ditch 18%
• cereal 18%
• aquatic organism 18%
• herbicide 17%
• cost 17%
• insect 16%
• effect 16%
• flora 15%
• vertebrate 15%
• grass 14%
• bird 14%
• vegetation 10%
• loss 9%
• soil 7%

Social Sciences

• biodiversity 73%
• farmer 60%
• arable farming 45%
• agronomy 35%
• acceptance 32%
• cost-benefit analysis 27%
• costs 25%
• psychology 16%
• management 11%
• interview 9%