21 December 2022
A recent news piece published by the Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) calls attention to SHOWCASE’s research-based policy recommendations.
As the European Commission's primary source of results from EU-funded projects, CORDIS brings impactful research results closer to relevant stakeholders. SHOWCASE caught its...
09 December 2022
This press release was published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo.
On the occasion of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, the EU project SHOWCASE issued its first policy brief providing research-based policy recommendations.
SHOWCASE’s first policy brief will be distributed at a...
30 November 2022
This press release was published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo.
Europe is increasingly investing in research and innovation. Supporting scientific breakthroughs, addressing social challenges and stepping up cooperation are only a few of the benefits of that investment. And while the results of research projects often become well-known success stories,...
06 July 2022
In the last years, huge efforts have been made to conserve and restore ecosystems and biodiversity, thus countering the negative effects of field- and landscape-scale intensification. This is evidenced by the current UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration target to restore 30% of today’s degraded areas. Semi-natural grasslands are a particularly important...
20 June 2022
When we talk about habitat richness, what variables affect the diversity of ecosystem types and which of those is most important? How do interactions among these variables influence habitat richness? An article titled “Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure” was published in the...
30 May 2022
A new article investigating novel research about the state of insects in the Netherlands was published by journalist Ronald Veldhuizen in the third largest Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant. The article focuses on the work of SHOWCASE’s early career researchers Reinier de Vries and Michele Torresani, of the Dutch and Italian teams respectively, who are...
11 May 2022
How can the natural value of farmland be boosted so that it becomes attractive for insects and birds again, but without farmers feeling the pinch in their pockets? SHOWCASE’s coordinator, Prof David Kleijn reflects on this and more questions in a magazine issue on European research collaborations.
SHOWCASE’s coordinating institution, the Wageningen...
10 May 2022
SHOWCASE partners Dr Felix Herzog and Chiara Durrer met up with the Italian-speaking Swiss news outlet Radiotelevisione svizzera to discuss the synergies between biodiversity and economics.
According to a recent report by the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), the destruction of biodiversity threatens...
08 March 2022
Biodiversity has been drastically affected by intensive agricultural production, resulting in the loss of public goods, such as iconic wildlife and cultural landscapes. The SHOWCASE project is dedicated to stopping this decline in biodiversity by promoting sustainable farming, which includes practices, such as the use of seed mixtures increasing biodiversity.
To...
02 February 2022
A recently published article reviews the effects of land use heterogeneity on arthropod species richness through meta-analysis.
The authors of “Increasing landscape complexity enhances species richness of farmland arthropods, agri-environment schemes also abundance – A meta-analysis”, amongst whom SHOWCASE partner Péter Batáry, analysed 29 studies...
27 December 2021
A recently published article in the Scientific Reports journal analyses how certified organic farming and conventional farming affect the quantity and taxonomic richness of several species groups in vineyards.
The authors of the article discovered that field-scale farming techniques are more important determinants of community abundance than landscape...
09 December 2021
Pest control services provided by naturally occurring species, also called biocontrol services, are widely recognised as a key component in biodiversity conservation. However, there is still a lack of rigorous approaches, evaluating synergies between the biocontrol potential of vertebrates and landscape‐scale features to better inform land-use...