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  1. Does “better” mean “less”? Sustainable meat consumption in the context of natural pasture-raised beef

    Article • Agriculture and Human Values, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Iryna Herzon

  2. High nature value farming systems in Europe: A dataset encompassing the environmental impact assessment of farms and extensive ruminant food products

    Article • Data in Brief, February 2025, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  3. Applying life cycle assessment to European high nature value farming systems: Environmental impacts and biodiversity

    Article • Agricultural Systems, October 2024, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  4. Both downsizing and improvements to livestock systems are needed to stay within planetary boundaries

    Article • Nature Food, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Iryna Herzon

  5. A rebalanced discussion of the roles of livestock in society

    Article • Nature Food, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Iryna Herzon

  6. Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2023, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Iryna Herzon

  7. Innovation brokers in High Nature Value farming areas: a strategic approach to engage effective socioeconomic and agroecological dynamics

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2023, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Iryna Herzon

  8. Contribution of High Nature Value farming systems to sustainable livestock production: A case from Finland

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, September 2022, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  9. Semi-natural habitats in the European boreal region: Caught in the socio-ecological extinction vortex?

    Article • AMBIO, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Iryna Herzon

  10. Flies are important pollinators of mass-flowering caraway and respond to landscape and floral factors differently from honeybees

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, January 2022, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  11. Linking pollinator occurrence in field margins to pollinator visitation to a mass-flowering crop

    Article • Journal of Pollination Ecology, July 2021, International Commission for Plant Pollinator Relations

    Iryna Herzon

  12. Keskeiset keinot luontokadon pysäyttämiseksi

    Article • Suomen Luontopaneelin julkaisuja, April 2021, Jyvaskyla University Library

    Iryna Herzon

  13. Luonnon monimuotoisuus ja vihreä elvytys

    Article • Suomen Luontopaneelin julkaisuja, March 2021, Jyvaskyla University Library

    Iryna Herzon

  14. Simplistic understandings of farmer motivations could undermine the environmental potential of the common agricultural policy

    Article • Land Use Policy, February 2021, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  15. Semi-natural habitats in boreal Europe: a rise of a social-ecological research agenda

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2021, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Iryna Herzon

  16. Conflicts between agriculture and biodiversity conservation in Europe: Looking to the future by learning from the past

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  17. The Common Agricultural Policy needs urgent action to solve environmental problems

    Article • People and Nature, March 2020, Wiley

    Iryna Herzon, Dr Sebastian Lakner

  18. Organically grown cattle benefits farmland birds in Finland

    Article • PLOS One, May 2019, PLOS

    Iryna Herzon

  19. Paying public support to farmers by the ecological results they have is a promising option

    Article • Journal of Rural Studies, April 2019, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  20. Late flowering time enhances insect pollination of turnip rape

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, February 2019, Wiley

    Iryna Herzon

  21. Weak effects of farming practices corresponding to agricultural greening measures on farmland bird diversity in boreal landscapes

    Article • Landscape Ecology, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Iryna Herzon

  22. Coincidence of High Nature Value farmlands with bird and butterfly diversity

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, January 2019, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon, Anni Arponen

  23. Perennial fallow strips support biological pest control in spring cereal in Northern Europe

    Article • Biological Control, June 2018, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  24. Public support to farmers by the ecological results supports farmers's conservation activities

    Article • May 2018, Jyvaskyla University Library

    Iryna Herzon

  25. Evidence for positive population-level effects of an agri-environment scheme on grassland butterflies

    Article • May 2018, Jyvaskyla University Library

    Iryna Herzon

  26. Linking pollinator abundance in field margins to crop pollination service

    Article • May 2018, Jyvaskyla University Library

    Iryna Herzon

  27. Applying trait-based community metrics of relevance to conservation for understanding community patterns of farmland birds in Northwest Russia

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, May 2018, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  28. Time to look for evidence: Results-based approach to biodiversity conservation on farmland in Europe

    Article • Land Use Policy, February 2018, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  29. Grazing horses on natural pastures helps biodiversity and can be good also for horses

    Article • Land, October 2017, MDPI AG

    Iryna Herzon

  30. High cover of forest increases the abundance of most grassland butterflies in boreal farmland

    Article • Insect Conservation and Diversity, March 2017, Wiley

    Iryna Herzon

  31. Probing the grounds: Developing a payment-by-results agri-environment scheme in Finland

    Article • Land Use Policy, February 2017, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  32. Voluntary non-monetary approaches for implementing conservation

    Article • Biological Conservation, May 2016, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  33. Community composition of butterflies and bumblebees in fallows: niche breadth and dispersal capacity modify responses to fallow type and landscape

    Article • Journal of Insect Conservation, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Iryna Herzon

  34. Differing effects of fallow type and landscape structure on the occurrence of plants, pollinators and birds on environmental fallows in Finland

    Article • Biological Conservation, January 2015, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  35. Harnessing the biodiversity value of Central and Eastern European farmland

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, December 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Ainars Aunins, Iryna Herzon, Péter Török

  36. Socially optimal drainage system and agricultural biodiversity: A case study for Finnish landscape

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, December 2014, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  37. Plant functional diversity in agricultural margins and fallow fields varies with landscape complexity level: Conservation implications

    Article • Journal for Nature Conservation, December 2014, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  38. What motivates farmers to maintain natural grasslands?

    Article • Land Use Policy, November 2014, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  39. Environmentally friendly management as an intermediate strategy between organic and conventional agriculture to support biodiversity

    Article • Biological Conservation, October 2014, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  40. Farmland bird communities in an agricultural landscape in Northwest Russia: Seasonal and spatial patterns

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, January 2014, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  41. Environmental fallows as a new policy tool to safeguard farmland biodiversity in Finland

    Article • Biological Conservation, March 2013, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  42. Type of agricultural drainage modifies the value of fields for farmland birds

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, January 2013, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  43. Toward effective nature conservation on farmland: making farmers matter

    Article • Conservation Letters, November 2012, Wiley

    Iryna Herzon

  44. Importance of set-aside for breeding birds of open farmland in Finland

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, September 2011, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  45. Conservation of Farmland Birds Faces Different Challenges in Western and Central-Eastern Europe

    Article • Acta Ornithologica, June 2011, Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Sciences

    Piotr Skorka, Iryna Herzon

  46. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in organically managed red clover–grass leys under farming conditions

    Article • Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B - Soil & Plant Science, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Iryna Herzon

  47. Ecological impacts of early 21st century agricultural change in Europe – A review

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, October 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Pedro R Beja, Iryna Herzon

  48. Agricultural drainage ditches, their biological importance and functioning

    Article • Biological Conservation, May 2008, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon

  49. Effects of landscape complexity on farmland birds in the Baltic States

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, January 2007, Elsevier

    Iryna Herzon