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Landscape features in agricultural landscapes are small, non-productive elements within agricultural settings that support biodiversity and contribute to the provision of ecosystem services. Although the proportion of land covered by landscape features in intensive agricultural landscapes is small, they offer numerous valuable refuges and thus represent alternative, near-natural habitats. Furthermore, landscape features can provide valuable food sources and form migration corridors, thereby improving landscape connectivity in open landscapes. Additional important ecological functions include protection against soil erosion, climate regulation, CO₂ sequestration, air filtration, and pest control.
Within the MonViA module, a method is being developed for recording landscape features such as hedgerows, tree lines, and field copses. The module therefore addresses the following question: How can landscape features be described qualitatively and quantitatively?