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An “agroecological infrastructure” is the term used for any agroecosystem’s habitat in or around which a spontaneous vegetation, essentially composed of biennial, multi-annual or perennial species, or a sown cover crop, called ‘service cover crop’ and intentionally not harvested, develops. An agroecological infrastructure is a “semi-natural habitat” according to scientists, and is close to regulatory terminologies such as “fixed element of the landscape” or “area of ecological interest” but is not an equivalent. It can take various forms:
(i) linear such as the alignments of trees and their grass strips on the edge or in plots, forest edges, hedges, banks, low walls, ditch borders, streams …;
(ii) areal such as wet meadows, meadow orchards, rangelands, wastelands, groves, wetlands …;
(iii) punctual such as ponds, springs, isolated trees, rocks … [Dictionary of agroecology : https://dicoagroecologie.fr/en/encyclopedia/agroecological-infrastructure/]
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