Cooperation partner:
Institut für Bienenschutz (JKI) Institut für Pflanzenschutz in Ackerbau und Grünland (JKI) Institut für Strategien und Folgenabschätzung (JKI) Institut für Anwendungstechnik im Pflanzenschutz (JKI) Institut für Biologischen Pflanzenschutz (JKI) Institut für ökologische Chemie, Pflanzenanalytik und Vorratsschutz (JKI) Institut für Pflanzenschutz in Obst- und Weinbau (JKI) Institut für Pflanzenbau und Bodenkunde (JKI) Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ländliche Räume, Wald und Fischerei
Overall objective of the project:
Small freshwater systems in agricultural landscapes are vulnerable to inputs of plant protection products and fertilizers. Therefore, the fauna in these water bodies can be severely impaired. This is crucial, since small freshwaters host the largest biodiversity compared to other freshwater systems such as lakes and rivers. Due to the reasons above, small freshwaters at the same time host the largest fraction of endangered species on the landscape scale. So far, there is no biological monitoring of small freshwaters. Its conceptual development is complex due to the high number and the large diversity of these ecosystems (e.g. in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania there are about 60.000 small freshwaters in or adjacent to agricultural fields). The JKI currently investigates the effects of agricultural management strategies on the biodiversity of these freshwaters. In MonViA, the JKI will, in close collaboration with the plant protection services of the federal states of Germany, develop a monitoring concept for biodiversity in small freshwaters. Test-projects based on this concept will provide a first overview on the current situation, followed by continuous status descriptions of the biodiversity in small freshwaters in agricultural landscapes.
Cooperation partner:
Institut für Pflanzenschutz in Ackerbau und Grünland (JKI) Institut für Anwendungstechnik im Pflanzenschutz (JKI) Institut für Biologischen Pflanzenschutz (JKI) Institut für Bienenschutz (JKI) Institut für ökologische Chemie, Pflanzenanalytik und Vorratsschutz (JKI) Institut für Pflanzenschutz in Obst- und Weinbau (JKI) Institut für Pflanzenbau und Bodenkunde (JKI) Institut für Biodiversität Informations- und Koordinationszentrum für Biologische Vielfalt
Overall objective of the project:
In MonViA, the Julius Kühn-Institute develops in close co-operation with the Thünen-Institute and the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food a broad-based farmland biodiversity monitoring for Germany. The joint project consists of three main parts: a) a general, national wide trend monitoring based on a systematic sampling grid, b) an in-depth, question-based monitoring on specific issues focusing on insects and c) a Citizen-Science monitoring, based on the participation of farmers, associations and interested citizens. The as long-term designed project involves 6 specialist institutes from the TI, 8 from the JKI and the BLE with a total of more than 35 persons. In the sub-project "Monitoring the diversity of habitats - small landscape structures and landscape elements" methods are developed and made available to derive indicators of habitat quality (e.g. age, volume; connectivity) derived from remote sensing data (e.g. LiDAR, VHR).
Cooperation partner:
Institut für Bienenschutz (JKI) Institut für Biologischen Pflanzenschutz (JKI) Institut für Strategien und Folgenabschätzung (JKI)
Overall objective of the project:
The challenge for modern plant protection in fruit and viticulture is to strike a balance between crop management, fertilisation and plant protection on the one hand and nature conservation and resource conservation on the other.The present project develops urgently needed information on the influence of management measures on the biodiversity of insects in fruit-growing and viticulture through three complementary approaches: (A) Through a systematic investigation of vineyards and fruit crops with different management, the factors that limit insects are identified. (B) The Institute's own permanent observation plots will be established in order to be able to follow developments over time under known conditions as a basis for long-term monitoring. (C) Historical data on the occurrence of insects will be researched and made available as a reference for current stocks and their development. Which insects will be evaluated?The number of all captured insects on order-level is captured. Hymenoptera are examined more closely.Aculeate hymenopterans (bees, wasps, ants) are important predators and pollinators of cultivated and wild plants. Limited by food animals, flower supply but also by structural elements and therefore of high conservation interest.Terebrante hymenopterans (ichneumon wasps, proctotrupoid wasps, chalcid wasps) are important as natural opponents of pests and indifferent phytophagous insects.The locations are compared in space and time using multivariate methods.
Cooperation partner:
Institut für Anwendungstechnik im Pflanzenschutz (JKI) Institut für Biologischen Pflanzenschutz (JKI) Institut für Bienenschutz (JKI) Institut für nationale und internationale Angelegenheiten der Pflanzengesundheit (JKI) Institut für ökologische Chemie, Pflanzenanalytik und Vorratsschutz (JKI) Institut für Pflanzenschutz in Obst- und Weinbau (JKI) Institut für Pflanzenbau und Bodenkunde (JKI) Institut für Biodiversität Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung
Overall objective of the project:
In
MonViA, the Julius Kühn-Institute develops in close co-operation with the
Thünen-Institute and the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food a broad-based
farmland biodiversity monitoring for Germany. The joint project consists of
three main parts: a) a general, national wide trend monitoring based on a
systematic sampling grid, b) an in-depth, question-based monitoring on specific
issues focusing on insects and c) a Citizen-Science monitoring, based on the
participation of farmers, associations and interested citizens. The as
long-term designed project involves 6 specialist institutes from the TI, 8 from
the JKI and the BLE with a total of more than 35 persons. In the sub-project
"Monitoring the diversity of habitats - small landscape structures and
landscape elements" methods are developed and made available to derive
indicators of habitat quality (e.g. age, volume; connectivity) derived from
remote sensing data (e.g. LiDAR, VHR).The aim of
the subproject "Pests and pathogens" is therefore to develop a
proposal for a pest and pathogen monitoring on cultivated plants and to test it
on small scale. Gradually, agricultural
crops, wine and apple production will be examined and, if necessary, extended
by further cultivations later on. On the basis of already existing data
and monitoring of pests in the federal states as well as suitable test results
from different institutions, criteria for the selection of pests, pathogens,
crops, regions and corresponding monitoring methods will be developed, which
will also incorporate the latest methods of data processing and analysis as
well as molecular biology and bioinformatics. These results form the basis for
the development of an enhanced concept for systematic pest monitoring that
integrates existing structures, expands them in a targeted manner and thus allows
sound statements to be made about trends and the relevance of pests and
pathogens for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes.