Scenarios | Energy crop types | Production system? | Risks and opportunities for biodiversity conservation |
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A1 | 1st-gen. crops | Productive agricultural land (food/fodder crops) | Risk of no improvements in farmland biodiversity |
A2 | 1st-gen. crops + dedicated energy crops | Opportunity for mitigating pressures on farmland biodiversity | |
A3 | Dedicated energy crops | Opportunities for mitigating various impacts of agriculture and supporting biodiversity | |
B1 | 1st-gen. crops | Economically marginal land (food/fodder crops and permanent grassland) | Risks of negative effects on grassland biodiversity |
B2 | 1st-gen. crops + dedicated energy crops | Risks and opportunities depending on a planning and landscape design; opportunity for stabilising HNV farming systems | |
B3 | Dedicated energy crops | Trade-off between conservation of rare species and habitats and conservation of biodiversity-friendly farming systems | |
C1; C2 | Dedicated energy crops | Unsuitable low-grade land (semi-natural vegetation, permanent grassland) | Opportunity for supporting and enhancing biodiversity through supporting pastoral systems |
C3 | Vegetation biomass from grasslands | Â | Unknown, depending on changes in management |