DATASET

EU Crop Diversity

Collection: DRLL : Digital Rural Landscape Lab 

Description

Crop diversity across countries and scales in European Union

Contact

Email
raphael.dandrimont (at) ec.europa.be

Contributors

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2022): EU Crop Diversity . European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/f2c60a95-d7dd-44c9-9b86-6eb2787190f7

Data access

Publications

Publication 2022
EU Crop Diversity
D`andrimont, R., Zampieri, M., Claverie, M., Dentener, F. and Van Der Velde, M., EU Crop Diversity, European Commission, 2022, JRC129557.
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  • Abstract

    Crop diversity has been related to in the stability of food production at the large scales such as the national level, and to pesticide use, agroecosystem resilience and natural biodiversity in agroecosystems at smaller scales such as the farm level. However, crop diversity is difficult to estimate at small scales because of the lack of data with sufficient spatial resolution. Here, we use a new product derived from satellite remote sensing at 10 meters spatial resolution to compute crop diversity at different spatial scales, from the farm to regional and country level in Europe. We show that spatial diversity increases with the size of the spatial aggregations, as generally expected. We focus on selected spatial scale to derive useful indicators that can be related to farm resilience (α-diversity), to the general production stability of larger spatial aggregations such as administrative and political boundaries (γ-diversity), and to the relationships between the two (boundaries (β-diversity).

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2022-05-16
Modified date
2022-05-16
Issued date
2022-05-16
Data theme(s)
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food
Update frequency
other
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/f2c60a95-d7dd-44c9-9b86-6eb2787190f7
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