Workpackages

WP1 – Literature review: Evaluation of novel measures to enhance biodiversity on Irish farms

WP2 – Economic analysis of selected novel measures to protect and enhance biodiversity on Irish farms

WP3 – Identify and map biodiversity target areas in a range of farming intensities and enterprises

WP4 – Assess ecosystem health and delivery of ecosystem services using novel above-ground bioindicators

WP5 – Assess ecosystem health and delivery of ecosystem services using soil parameters

WP6 – Enhance biodiversity and the provisioning of ecosystem services through connectivity at the landscape scale.

WP7 – Modelling spatial extent of benefits from biodiversity-rich habitats on biodiversity and ecosystem services

WP8 – Demonstration of novel biodiversity measures

WP9 – Dissemination

High Nature Value farming is dependent on extensive farming, and is at risk from intensification and abandonment.