Institut für Pflanzenschutz in Ackerbau und Grünland
The WeeDive use case connects types of data focusing arable weeds. Data sources on different time and spatial scales will become available to address future questions in arable farming. The data types vary by nature due to their collection. WeeDive addresses RDM in agrosystem research and develops and tests a service to overcome the challenges of no access, buried data and scattered knowledge. We will (1) add to and make use of a European monitoring data format “Arable Weeds and Management in Europe” (AWME), will (2) organise a format for long-term experimental data about weed diversity under management options allowing weeds to survive (3) process a reference inventory to modify weed management for biodiversity goals. A (4) comprehensive example will be derived from this open access data on how scientific exercises can be enabled and assisted e.g., about changes of biodiversity in arable weeds on a time scale relevant for climate change or on a spatial scale relevant for IPM-decisions in farming. Thus, WeeDive strategically offers knowledge to join food security and biodiversity conservation goals in arable management. Besides adapting data format and management to FAIRagro principals, data curation will be safeguarded by hand-shake activities of the project partners. All data types used in WeeDive can be applied to related issues: e.g. monitoring herbicide resistant weeds, more LTE on arable management or link-up other services (e.g. soil erosion, soil structure). Besides offering data for projects aiming to increase weed diversity under arable management, transferring the concept will support these applications.
German Research Foundation
