Agroecology
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Pollinators in Agricultural LandscapesA structurally various agricultural landscape offers diverse food resources and nesting habitats for numerous pollinator species. However, due to the increasing intensification of agriculture, e.g. the enlargement of farmland and the increasing use of chemical pesticides, semi-natural landscape elements such as “Knicks”, field shrubs or field margins are being lost. The supply of suitable nesting habitats and flowering resources is dwindling, that fewer and fewer wild bee species can be found in today's agricultural landscape. |
Research FocusTo counteract this development, we are investigating how the landscape structure affects the diversity of bumble bees and wild bees in agricultural landscapes. We investigate how pollination performance can be enhanced by networking semi-natural landscape elements in agricultural landscapes. Subject of doctoral and final theses is the extent to which flowering areas and other agri-environmental measures can support this. |
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