A comparison of land‐sharing and land‐sparing strategies for plant richness conservation in agricultural landscapes

Strategies for conserving plant diversity in agroecosystems generally focus on either expanding land area in non‐crop habitat or enhancing diversity within crop fields through changes in within‐field management practices. In this study, we compare effects on landscape‐scale species richness from such land‐sharing or land‐sparing strategies. We collected data in arable field, grassland, pasture, and forest habitat types (1.6 ha sampled per...