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The nationwide monitoring of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes.

Counting, observing and measuring biodiversity, but how?

To find answers to these questions, MonViA is working on a nationwide monitoring concept for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. To do this, we are taking a close look at agricultural landscapes – from microorganisms to landscape structures, from field level to satellite data. Diversity abounds here, too! Continue

 

Biodiversity monitoring MonViA Indicator Report 2024

Biodiversity and agriculture - how data can help to promote both

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First results of eDNA analysis in wild bee monitoring

- At the end of 2023, volunteers from the wild bee monitoring program sampled nesting aids for eDNA analysis for the first time. The results of this evaluation by the Thünen Institute are now available and have been presented for…

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Better understand pollinator trends: Bumblebee monitoring in agricultural landscapes started its fifth season

- How are bumblebees doing in the German agricultural landscape? Which species occur here and how are their distribution areas changing? Researchers at the Thünen Institute of Biodiversity have been developing a nationwide…

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Weed Day on March 28, 2025

- Weed Day has been celebrated every year on March 28 since 2003. It reminds us that so-called weeds are more than just annoying plants.

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Hello again!

- A face-to-face meeting of the MonViA team was a long time coming. But on 9-10 March the time has come to stick our heads together at a workshop in Braunschweig.

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MonViA event information

- On board of the MS Science in Braunschweig - Join the MonViA wild bee team in front of the booth on board to the nearby Okeraue to learn more about the pollinator monitoring.