PESTLAND: The Impact of Agricultural Landscape Structure on Pesticide Load and Abundance of Wildlife
Project objectives
To propose measures in agriculture and landscape structure, leading to minimum conditions for stopping the decline in biodiversity caused by pesticides. Using GIS tools, the gradient from monoculture to diverse landscapes with landscape elements and organic agriculture will be monitored. The pesticide content will be assessed in the solitary bees (the Red Mason Bee) and the field hare. A statistical model will be created describing the dependence between landscape characteristics, the amount and types of pesticides and the abundance of the studied animal species. Based on the model, the range from which a richer landscape structure (including organic farming) leads to a lower pesticide load on biodiversity and consequently a higher abundance of the studied species will be determined.
About the project
- Project identification code: SS07020316
- Provider: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic and Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic within the Environment for Life Programme
- Main beneficiary: Global Change Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v. v. i.; other beneficiaries: Research Institute of Forestry and Hunting, v. v. i.; ALS Czech Republic, s.r.o.
- Project duration: 04/2024 - 06/2026
Results
Utility model: Device for monitoring pesticide content in soil using solitary bees
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