**Acknowledgements**

We thank the DBU (German Environmental Foundation) for funding of the WasserWiesenWerte project as well as the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Ministry of Science (MBWWK) for the funding of activities within the framework of "AufLand" research initiative. For their contributions in data acquisition, we thank various students of the University Koblenz-Landau. Further, we thank the communities, the Landschaftspflegeverband Südpfalz as well as many of their farmers for their valuable cooperation.

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