Erica Daniela Romero. Romero-Nápoles 1. for their comments on an early version of this manuscript.Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Fax +1 (831) 375‐0793., 2Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A.1 You may need to download version 2.0 now from the To test the sensitivity of our approach and to identify any potential HNVfSpatial analysis was implemented in ArcGIS 10.2 for Desktop (ESRI The spatially explicit expression of the share of farmed (P.UAAOverall, the values of UAA per parish ranged from 25.96% in Chaviães to 68.76% in Cubalhão (cf. Assessing the location and extent of HNVfHNVf biodiversity hotspots constitute highly heterogeneous agriculture‐dominated landscapes, containing a diversity of land cover and a widespread occurrence of semi‐natural vegetation such as extensive grasslands (Bignal & McCracken HNV farmlands assessment in each EU Member State is mandatory under the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (EC, To address such challenges, and in agreement with the bottom‐up approach proposed by Lomba et al. and you may need to create a new Wiley Online Library account.Can't sign in?
Tel. This proposed framework is, to our knowledge, one of only few that focus on the spatially explicit identification of the different types of HNV farmlands, thus complying with the EU need for strategic monitoring of the EU countryside. Tel. : +1 (831) 655‐6251. An added value of the approach is therefore a more refined identification of areas where land‐sharing for biodiversity conservation and/ or enhancement in the European countryside may be relevant or even essential and is not expected to cause conflicts with other (more intensive) land uses (Egan & Mortensen While at the local and regional level, the informed targeting of rural landscapes can enhance the ability of territories to support agro‐biodiversity maintenance and other ecosystem services (including provisioning, regulating, and cultural), and to support an informed targeting of rural landscapes to be supported by agro‐environmental payments, our approach can be applied across the EU countryside, thus contributing to a more realistic mapping and assessment of HNVf at the EU level.Even if the results of our approach are promising, there is room for improvement. The backbone of the framework, outlined in Fig. While farmlands of high nature value and their associated management practices have been widely acknowledged as beneficial for biodiversity enhancement (e.g., Bignal & McCracken Assessing the extent of HNV farmland by necessity relies on both ecological and farming systems' data, and difficulties with making such assessments have been widely described (Peppiette In this manuscript, a spatially explicit framework is presented after Lomba et al. de México, México.