Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Guidance on the Assessment of the Impact on Wider Biodiversity
from Proposed Cultivation of GM Crops

ANNEX A

Key Arable Farmland Habitat Types

The risk assessment should primarily consider the likely impact of the new management practice on the Biodiversity Action Plan species within the broadly defined agricultural ecosystem components listed below.

Crop

 

 those species reliant on the crop itself

Within-crop flora and fauna

 

 plants and animals living within the fields
Headland flora and fauna

plants and animals living within the field headland, where proposed headland management differs from that in the rest of the field

 
Soil beneath the crop

plants and animals in the soil

 
Field margin

plants and animals in the field margin

 
Hedgerow

plants and animals in hedgerows

 

Key Arable Farmland Biodiversity Action Plan Species

These species are associated with farmland and have a wide distribution in the UK

Mammals

Birds

Plants

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