Impact of agri-environment scheme
The abstracts of 64 articles stated that they were comparing farms under agri-environment schemes with those not under them. The actual prescriptions may or may not have been mentioned. These were predominantly manipulative studies (86%). There were only 3 articles for Eastern Europe (Czech Republic n = 1 and Estonia n = 2). The others were: UK (n = 29); Switzerland ( n = 13); Netherlands ( n = 8); Ireland ( n = 6); Austria ( n = 2); France and Germany ( n = 1each). Two articles did not give a country in the abstract, although from personal knowledge, one was UK. Invertebrates ( n = 33), plants ( n = 31) and farmland birds ( n = 26) were the most commonly studied groups. Few studies investigated mammals and none amphibians or reptiles (Figure 8). Pollinators were the most common functional