Monitoring-Systems, Indicators

About 50 percent of the land area of Germany is under agricultural cultivation. This percentage of area illustrates the significance of open crop- and pastureland for biodiversity. Agrobiodiversity, performs ecosystem services which are essential for the sustainable use of agroecosystems. Biodiversity of agricultural ecosystems is under pressure from drivers such as climate change, land-use change, intensification or abandonment of management. To assess the impact of those pressures on the state and response of the structural and functional components of the ecosystems, systematic and repeated long-term observations of biodiversity and of the development of the pressures is necessary. We develop and test indicators and monitoring-systems for the assessment of pressures or mitigation schemes on the state and response of biodiversity and ecosystem services.