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Integration of habitat structures in agricultural areas for the promotion of pollinator insects (INTEGRA) (INTEGRA)
Project
Project code: 2819NA071
Contract period: 02.06.2021
- 21.06.2024
Budget: 934,310 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: agricultural biodiversity, agroforestry, management planning, bees, digital world, production, climate (climate relevance, climate protection, climate change), modeling, sustainability, environment and nature protection
The goal of the INTEGRA project is the development of a freely available software tool for spatial planning of habitat characteristics of agricultural systems on a scientific basis. The software tool integrates existing knowledge and newly acquired results from the project on the introduction of trees, shrubs and flowering plants into the agricultural landscape in order to ensure a year-round diverse food supply for typical insect pollinators (honeybees, wild bees, bumblebees, hoverflies and butterflies) as well as to optimize the nesting area. In this intuitive tool, the practitioner can now spatially arrange trees, bushes and flower strips and quantify the effect on insect pollinators with regard to the habitat suitability of the planning area. The range of pollination performance of the insects is spatially modelled, as well as the growth and flowering of trees and bushes over the course of the year and over the years. In addition, side effects and interactions between trees and bushes and the agricultural crops such as shade, root competition and carbon storage are calculated with ecophysiological models to achieve an optimized arrangement. In the project an intensive exchange of knowledge with practitioners is planned along with a legal classification of the measures, so that the planner can already call up the legal framework and possible support measures in the tool during the planning process. With the INTEGRA planning tool, the farmer is for the first time provided with a powerful tool for spatial planning of ecological intensification, which can be immediately integrated into Big-Data applications for Agriculture 4.0 through open interfaces. Thus the farmer as an actor can plan and optimize the protection and promotion of insect pollinators on the area he cultivates.
Section overview
Subjects
- Beekeeping and health
- Agroecology
- Communication Sciences
- Computer science
Framework programme
Federal Organic Farming Scheme and other forms of sustainable agriculture (BÖLN)
