Agricultural landscape is characterized by a variety of habitats, which are the result of age transformations of the natural environment. Habitats such as field margins, woodlots and meadows affect the occurrence of birds and pollinators. As a result of changes in the use of the agricultural area in Europe – the transition from extensive to an intensive agricultural economy – there is a decrease in biodiversity of the flora and fauna characteristic of the agricultural landscape.

 

 

Every semi-preserved landscape structure and those created by human activity (electricity pylons, railway lines, railway embankments) are important in preserving local biodiversity, in particular, pollinating insects and birds. These studies are aimed at checking whether the closed railway lines can provide an alternative habitat for birds and pollinators in an intensively managed agricultural landscape.