MonViA annual meeting: Monitoring to be implemented on a trial basis from 2022

More than 80 scientists from the Thünen Institute and the Julius Kühn Institute as well as participants from the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food are developing the concept for a comprehensive monitoring of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in a five-year pilot phase (2019-2023). The two-year pilot phase I (2019-2021) will end at the end of 2021. This was the reason for the participating scientists to discuss during the project meeting at the beginning of November how the already developed monitoring concepts, feasibility studies and method developments can be complemented and linked to a large-scale agricultural landscape monitoring. The annual meeting also marked the start of the cross-module planning for pilot phase II (2022/23): In workshops, the scientists jointly worked out how the diverse monitoring concepts can be implemented in Germany on a test basis in 2022 and 23. Interested actors in rural areas are being sought for the planned activities!

m 2022 onwards, you can view the developed monitoring concepts and find out where you can participate in Citizen Science-based monitoring activities in Germany on the website of the collaborative project (www.agrarmonitoring-monvia.de). We look forward to collecting and analysing data on biodiversity in agricultural landscapes together with you and to discussing the results.

Background

The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) launched the collaborative project "Nationwide Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes" (MonVia) in March 2019. Since then, the Thünen Institute, the Julius Kühn Institute and the Federal Institute for Agriculture and Food have been developing a basis for a scientifically reliable database on the status and development of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. The aim is also to create a data basis for cause-and-effect analyses that will allow conclusions to be drawn about the impact of agri-environmental policy measures on biodiversity. In addition to providing knowledge-based policy advice, the results also serve to inform the public.