Many of these studies could also be
considered ‘landscape scale’ as studies were conducted
on multiple farms in different regions of the UK. Very
few articles (n = 12) reported studies made at the ‘whole
farm scale’, i.e. investigating the impact of a named intervention (such as agri-environment scheme implementation) on biodiversity across the whole farm. A
breakdown of the spatial scales of studies is given in
Table 1. Some abstracts (n = 24) did not mention a
spatial scale at all, and in other cases it was possible to
discern some aspects of spatial scale, but not others (for
example, experiments may have been described as