Project
MonViA: German farmland biodiversity monitoring
German farmland biodiversity monitoring
Far reaching changes in production systems and in farm management have led to a decline in farmland biodiversity. To counteract this decline, a national database is needed that allows conclusions to be drawn about cause-effect relationships.
Background and Objective
In Germany, around 50 percent of the land is used for agricultural purposes. Therefore, agriculture plays an important role in the conservation and promotion of farmland biodiversity. In particular, land-use and farm management, and closely linked to this, the configuration of agricultural landscapes, are mainly responsible for the decline in farmland biodiversity. Since existing monitoring programmes only allow to a limited extent scientifically reliable conclusions on underlying cause-effect relationships and on evaluations of the effectiveness of agri-environmental policy measures to promote farmland biodiversity, a representative nationwide data basis is required.
In the joint project MonViA, scientists want to provide well-founded answers to the following questions:
- How does agricultural production, changes in land- use and agricultural structure influence farmland biodiversity?
- How do changes in farmland biodiversity affect the performance and stability of agricultural production systems?
- How do agri-environmental policy instruments affect farmland biodiversity?
Target Group
Agriculture, science, politics
Approach
MonViA is designed to complement existing nature conservation monitoring schemes and starts with a 5-year pilot phase in which standardised sampling methods are developed and feasibility studies for the development of innovative indicator systems are carried out. MonViA consists of three monitoring sections: a nationwide general trend monitoring, a question-based monitoring on specific agricultural issues and a Citizen Science-based monitoring. In the latter case, farmers in particular are to be involved in monitoring activities.
MonViA deals, in addition to the diversity and quality of habitats, with different groups of organisms. The focus is on functional groups (pollinators, pests, beneficial organisms, soil fauna) that are of particular importance for the performance of agricultural production systems.
The scientific conception and development of MonViA is carried out by a total of 12 specialist institutes of the Thünen Institute and the Julius Kühn Institute. The Information and Coordination Centre of Biological Diversity of the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food is responsible for the presentation of results for politicians and the public. The overall coordination of the joint project is carried out by the Thünen Institute of Biodiversity.
Links and Downloads
More information on MoViA and all projects are available on the website of the joint-project:
www.agrarmonitoring-monvia.de
Thünen-Contact
Involved Thünen-Partners
- Ackermann, AndreaLV Institute of Rural Studies
- Dauber, JensBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Erasmi, StefanBW Institute of Farm Economics
- Erasmi, StefanBW Institute of Farm Economics
- Grabener, SwantjeBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Kasiske, ToniBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Kirsch, FelixBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Klimek, SebastianBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Kroll, DanaBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Krüger, LasseBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Laggner, BirgitLV Institute of Rural Studies
- Levers, ChristianBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Niemann, ChristophLV Institute of Rural Studies
- Ogan, SophieKB Coordination Unit Climate and Soil
- Ogan, SophieKB Coordination Unit Climate and Soil
- Ogan, SophieKB Coordination Unit Climate and Soil
- Pao, Yi-ChenLV Institute of Rural Studies
- Rakosy, DemetraBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Röder, NorbertLV Institute of Rural Studies
- Schrader, StefanBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Schwieder, MarcelBW Institute of Farm Economics
- Seah, BrandonBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Seide, YvonneBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Sickel, WiebkeBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Sommerlandt, FrankBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Stahl, JohannaBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Tebbe, ChristophBD Institute of Biodiversity
- Thiele, JanBD Institute of Biodiversity
Funding Body
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Federal Ministry of Food und Agriculture (BMEL)
(national, öffentlich)
Duration
Permanent task 1.2019
More Information
Project status:
ongoing
Publications to the project
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Gornall L, Dauber J, Sickel W (2025) Population delimitation in bumble bees - strategies and research gaps. Front Bee Sci 3:1507903, DOI:10.3389/frbee.2025.1507903
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Lobert F, Schwieder M, Alsleben J, Brög T, Kowalski K, Okujeni A, Hostert P, Erasmi S (2025) Unveiling year-round cropland cover by soil-specific spectral unmixing of Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series. Remote Sens Environ 318:114594, DOI:10.1016/j.rse.2024.114594
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Sommerlandt FMJ, Ogan S, Lakemann L, Rakosy D (2024) Bestäuber im Fokus: Das Hummel-Monitoring in Agrarlandschaften. Biol Unserer Zeit 54(4):327-329, DOI:10.11576/biuz-7588
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Ogan S, Guggemoos T, Kirsch F, Lakemann L, Sommerlandt FMJ, Witt R (2024) Erstnachweis von Bombus argillaceus (Scopoli, 1763) (Hymenoptera, Anthophila) für Deutschland [online]. Ampulex 15:46-49, zu finden in <www.ampulex.de/images/ampu15.pdf> [zitiert am 12.11.2024]
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Weber D, Schwieder M, Ritter L, Koch T, Psomas A, Huber N, Ginzler C, Boch S (2024) Grassland-use intensity maps for Switzerland based on satellite time series: Challenges and opportunities for ecological applications. Remote Sensing Ecol Conserv 10(3):312-327, DOI:10.1002/rse2.372
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Klaus F, Ayasse M, Classen A, Dauber J, Diekötter T, Everaars J, Fornoff F, Greil H, Hendriksma HP, Jütte T, Klein A-M, Krahner A, Leonhardt SD, Lüken DJ, Paxton RJ, Schmid-Egger C, Steffan-Dewenter I, Thiele J, Tscharntke T, Erler S, Pistorius J (2024) Improving wild bee monitoring, sampling methods, and conservation. Basic Appl Ecol 75:2-11, DOI:10.1016/j.baae.2024.01.003
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Weber D, Schwieder M, Huber N, Ginzler C, Boch S (2024) Kartierung der Grünlandnutzung aus dem All - methodisches Vorgehen und ökologische Anwendung für die Schweiz. N+L Inside(1):35-39
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Yang J, Schrader S, Tebbe CC (2024) Legacy effects of earthworms on soil microbial abundance, diversity, and community dynamics. Soil Biol Biochem 190:109294, DOI:10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109294
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Klein K, Ogan S, Tönshoff C, Böhner HGS, Dauber J, Erasmi S, Gocht A, Hellwig N, Klimek S, Krüger L, Lakemann L, Levers C, Lindermann L, Richter A, Röder N, Schwieder M, Sickel W, Sommerlandt FMJ, Stahl J, Tebbe CC, et al (2024) MonViA Indikatorenbericht 2024 : Bundesweites Monitoring der biologischen Vielfalt in Agrarlandschaften. Bonn: BLE, 199 p
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Hellwig N, Sommerlandt FMJ, Grabener S, Lindermann L, Sickel W, Krüger L, Dieker P (2024) Six steps towards a spatial design for large-scale pollinator surveillance monitoring. Insects 15(4):229, DOI:10.3390/insects15040229
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Pham V-D, Tetteh GO, Thiel F, Erasmi S, Schwieder M, Frantz D, van der Linden S (2024) Temporally transferable crop mapping with temporal encoding and deep learning augmentations. Int J Appl Earth Observ Geoinf 129:103867, DOI:10.1016/j.jag.2024.103867
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Frank C, Hertzog LR, Klimek S, Schwieder M, Tetteh GO, Böhner HGS, Röder N, Levers C, Katzenberger J, Kreft H, Kamp J (2024) Woody semi-natural habitats modulate the effects of field size and functional crop diversity on farmland birds. J Appl Ecol 61(5):987-999, DOI:10.1111/1365-2664.14604
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Sickel W, Zizka V, Scherges A, Bourlat SJ, Dieker P (2023) Abundance estimation with DNA metabarcoding - recent advancements for terrestrial arthropods. Metabarcoding & Metagenomics 7:e112290, DOI:10.3897/mbmg.7.112290
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Sickel W, Kulow J, Krüger L, Dieker P (2023) BEE-quest of the nest: A novel method for eDNA-based, nonlethal detection of cavity-nesting hymenopterans and other arthropods. Environmental DNA 5(6):1163-1176, DOI:10.1002/edn3.490
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Gönner J von, Herrmann TM, Bruckermann T, Eichinger M, Hecker S, Klan F, Lorke J, Richter A, Sturm U, Voigt-Heucke S, Brink W, Liedtke C, Premke-Kraus M, Altmann C, Bauhus W, Bengtsson L, Büermann A, Dietrich P, Dörler D, Eich-Brod R, et al (2023) Citizen science's transformative impact on science, citizen empowerment and socio-political processes. Socio-ecol pract res 5(1):11-33, DOI:10.1007/s42532-022-00136-4
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Pérez-Sánchez AJ, Schröder B, Dauber J, Hellwig N (2023) Flower strip effectiveness for pollinating insects in agricultural landscapes depends on established contrast in habitat quality: A meta-analysis. Ecol Solut Evid 4(3):e12261, DOI:10.1002/2688-8319.12261
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Kasiske T, Dauber J, Harpke A, Klimek S, Kühn E, Settele J, Musche M (2023) Livestock density affects species richness and community composition of butterflies: A nationwide study. Ecol Indic 146:109866, DOI:10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.109866
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Ayasse M, Fornoff F, Grabener S, Hoiß B, Hopfenmüller S, Hornby G, König C, Mayr A, Rest M, Reininghaus H, Schlager M, Schmid-Egger C, Seitz H, Sommerlandt FMJ, Tschöpe M, Zobel M (2023) Sammeln von Wildbienen in der Natur - Artenschutzfachliche Argumente : Biodiversität. Düsseldorf: VDI, 19 p, VDI Richtl
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Mupepele A-C, Hellwig N, Dieker P, Klein A-M (2023) What evidence exists on wild-bee trends in Germany? Research protocol for a systematic map. PROCEED, 6 p, DOI:10.57808/proceed.2023.2
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Bowler DE, Bhandari N, Repke L, Beuthner C, Callaghan CT, Eichenberg D, Henle K, Klenke R, Richter A, Jansen F, Bruelheide H, Bonn A (2022) Decision-making of citizen scientists when recording species observations. Sci Rep 12:11069, DOI:10.1038/s41598-022-15218-2
