Publications

Factsheets and press briefings

SAFFIE final (Sept 2007) summary presentation (PPT)

SAFFIE mid-project (Jan 2006) presentation PPT

ADAS Science Review article 05-06 (ADAS)

Hope Farm Diary (RSPB)

Skylary BAP report (RSPB)

Farmland Birds : Skylarks, Cereals and Stubbles (from the British Trust for Ornithology)

Saffie News, August 05

SAFFIE News June 04

Messages from Saffie about managing weeds 24/6/05

Best Practice Guide to drilling Skylark Patches

Papers

Clarke J H (2002) SAFFIE- Sustainable Arable Farming For an Improved Environment - Putting the B back into Arable. Proc HGCA R&D Conference. London: HGCA.

Morris A J, Bradbury R B, Evans A D (2003) SAFFIE: the effects of novel winter wheat sward management on Skylarks (Alauda arvensis). Proc of the BCPC International Congress - Crop Science & Technology 2003, 3B-3, 227-232.

Jones N, Archer L, Boatman N D (2003) Methods of determining weed seed inputs to the seedbank on arable land. Aspects of Applied Biology 69: Seedbanks: determination, dynamics and management. P171-178.

Morris, Antony J., Holland, John M., Smith, Barbara & Jones, Naomi E. (2004) Sustainable Arable Farming For an Improved Environment (SAFFIE): managing winter wheat sward structure for Skylarks Alauda arvensis. Ibis 146 (s2), 155-162.

Smith, .B (2004) Weeds and invertebrates: their relationship on arable farmland. Proc. Of the AAB Conference on Arable Weeds and Biodiversity.

Jones, N, & Boatman, N. (2004) Effects of novel crop management techniques on weeds to improve biodiversity; preliminary results from the SAFFIE project. Proc. Of the AAB Conference on Arable Weeds and Biodiversity.

Woodcock, B., Westbury, D., Potts, S.G., Harris, S. & Brown V.K. (2005) Field margins in arable cropping systems: invertebrate conservation and food resources for insectivorous birds. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 107: 255-266

Donald, Paul F. & Morris, Tony J (2005) Saving the Sky Lark: new solutions for a declining farmland bird. British Birds 98, 570-578

Boatman, N.D., Jones, N.E., Smith, B., & Holland, J.M. (in press) Putting ideas about improving ecosystem health into practice a test at a field scale: Findings from the Sustainable Arable Farming for an Improved Environment (SAFFIE) project. IX International Congress of Ecology, Montreal, August 2005

Claire Carvell, Richard Pywell, Matt Heard & Bill Meek.  The potential value of Environmental Stewardship Schemes for the BAP bumblebee, Bombus ruderatus (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera: Apidae).  accepted in Entomologists Gazette

Woodcock, B., Westbury, D., Lamber,t M.L., Potts, S.G., Harris, S., Ramsay, A.J. & Brown, V.K. (submitted) The importance of sward architectural complexity in structuring predatory and phytophagous invertebrate assemblages Ecological Entomology

Woodcock, B.A. & Mann, D.J. (2004) The occurrence of the macropterous fly Crumomyia pedestris (Meigen) (Sphaeroceridae, Diptera) in conservation field margins, with comments on its collection and distribution in Britain. Dipterists Digest, 11, 103-06.

Woodcock, B.A., Westbury, D.B., Potts, S.G., Harris, S.J. & Brown, V.K. (2005) Establishing field margins to promote beetle conservation in arable farms. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, 107, 255-66.

Smith, B.M. & Jones, N.E. (in press). Effects of manipulating crop architecture on weed and arthropod diversity in winter wheat. Aspects of Applied Biology xx 2007: Delivering Arable Biodiversity

Henderson, I. G., Morris, A.J., Westbury, D.B., Woodcock. B.A., Potts, S.G., Ramsay, A. & Coombes., R. 2007. Effects of field margin management on bird distributions around cereal fields. Aspects of Applied Biology xx 2007: Delivering Arable Biodiversity "Arable planthoppers and their responses to novel margin management

Alex Ramsay (CAER,University of Reading, UK) Aspects of Applied Biology xx 2007: Delivering Arable Biodiversity"

Morris, A. J. Overview of the SAFFIE project. Aspects of Applied Biology xx 2007: Delivering Arable Biodiversity