Data from: The importance of size, location and vegetation composition of perennial fallows for farmland birds

• Main Authors: Meichtry-Stier, Kim S., Duplain, Jérôme, Lanz, Michael, Lugrin, Bernard, Birrer, Simon
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: wildflower area; Geneva; bird territories; Miliaria calandra; Saxicola torquata; bird densities; habitat association; field margin; Champagne genevoise; Lanius collurio; Emberiza hortulana; Vanellus vanellus; Sylvia communis; Saxicola rubetra; Switzerland; Emberiza citrinella; compositional anaysis; Coturnix coturnix; fallow; habitat characteristics; Alauda arvensis; Hippolais polyglotta; Emberiza cirlus; Motacilla flava; Champagne
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4971968; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.66045pc

Across Europe, patches of un-cropped land (field margins, fallows etc.) have been established and managed as part of agri-environment schemes (AES) to counteract the decrease of farmland biodiversity. Various studies demonstrate a positive impact of such un-cropped land on different taxa. However, t...