Digital Agriculture - broadly defined as the use of digital technologies and data to manage and optimize agricultural production systems - holds significant but largely untapped potential for biodiversity monitoring. Both fields share many (semi-)automated data collection technologies, analytical methods and workflows, but remain largely disconnected - and are sometimes even perceived as incompatible - in research, education and practice. Here, we explore how existing data streams from Digital Agriculture can directly contribute with primary biodiversity data required by policy-relevant applications, linking them to the Essential Biodiversity Variables framework. We discuss the benefits of this integration, its challenges, and outline pathways for its adoption with respect to ongoing advances in biodiversity science and policy. This integration could improve the precision of biodiversity conservation in farmland, and accelerate transitions to sustainable agriculture - an urgent priority to safeguard nature and its contribution to people.

Agro Ecological Modeling Group Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation University of Bonn Niebuhrstraße 1a Bonn 53113 Germany

BIOME Lab Department of Biological Geological and Environmental Sciences Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna Via Irnerio 42 Bologna 40126 Italy

Chair of Environmental Planning Brandenburg University of Technology Erich Weinert Str 1 Cottbus 03046 Germany

Department of Spatial Sciences Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Kamýcká 129 Prague 16500 Praha Suchdol Czech Republic

Department of Spatial Sciences Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Kamýcká 129 Prague 16500 Praha Suchdol Czech Republic

Faculty of Agricultural Environmental and Food Sciences Free University of Bolzano Bozen Piazza Universitá Universitätsplatz 1 Bolzano Bozen 39100 Italy

Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Dresden University of Technology Helmholtzstr 10 Dresden 01069 Germany

Nature Solutions Finnish Environment Institute Latokartanonkaari 11 Helsinki 00790 Finland

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