However, in these agricultural landscapes, the conservation of headlands (strips of vegetated land near fences or borders of agriculture plots – cereal fields – which receive reduced selective pesticide applications) seems to increase overall plant and invertebrate biodiversity; hedgerows can also function as important connectors and hunting routes, as well as refuges, for the mammalian community (Macdonald et al., 2007), and thus positively contribute to increased gamma diversity.