Description
Crop diversity across countries and scales in European Union
Contact
Contributors
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/joint-research-centre
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
- European Commission
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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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