To determine what kind of problems might arise for farmers in the course of implementing this concept as an agri-environmental measure, a survey was carried out in four largely arable regions of Germany.
Data from earlier work on a largely arable farm (Manydown) in Hampshire in 1987 and 1988 were re-analysed to make comparisons between a green lane, the rides and glades of two coppiced woodlands, and the grass banks and single hedgerows surrounding arable fields.
The fields were largely arable, providing the village with most of its food requirements, but are now farmed exclusively for pasture and hay.
Although the state's cool temperate climate favours agriculture, the mountainous terrain and generally poor soils largely confine arable farming to the southeast, north, and northwest.
Arable farming has largely been an adjunct of the pastoral system, with shifting dry-land cultivation rarely entailing sedentary farming.
Snow leopards have always been rare, and they have the modest advantage over cousin carnivores like tigers and lions of occupying harsh habitats largely above the tree line, arable soil and easy human grasp.
Areas with good, arable land have largely been derived from old red sandstone and younger rocks, as in the Orkney Islands, the eastern Highlands, the northeastern coastal plain, and the Lowlands.
Human infant teeth exhibited much more homogeneous 87Sr/86Sr ratios (0.70847 0.70950), which coincided largely with those of potential arable soils around Basel and indicate targeted exploitation of landscapes for agriculture.
We predicted that the relative activity of bats above arable fields will be largely affected by large-scale landscape characteristics (e.g., composition, configuration) while relative foraging activity will be largely affected by local characteristics (e.g., prey availability, crop type, vegetation height).
A number of huge hydroelectric power plants were built, mainly on the Drin River, and more than half of the country's arable land was irrigated, largely from the artificial reservoirs created upstream of the dams.
The semi-natural (High Nature Value) grasslands of Europe are mainly threatened by agricultural intensification or abandonment on low-productive sites in remote areas, while the natural steppes of the Palaearctic have largely been destroyed by conversion into arable land.
