In the model region of ECO²SCAPE, bird mapping was carried out by professional ornithologists on three dates. The two ornithologists covered a distance of 60 km during each mapping and recorded the occurrence of birds in the agricultural landscape based on bird calls and bird observations. The data are currently being analyzed to better understand …
Within the framework of a project seminar at the TU Dresden, botanical investigations were carried out in the ECO²SCAPE project area under the direction of Lisanne Hölting and Julian Wendler. In total, we studied plant occurrence in eight plots (5m*5m) each of four different agricultural and environmental climate measures: annual fallows (AL5a), perennial fallows (AL5b), …
Monitoring segetal flora to assess the ecological value of fallows and flowering fields Read More »
On May 31st and June 1st, all ECO²SCAPE project partners, together with members of the Advisory Board, met in Berlin to report on the project progress, discuss research activities and ongoing publications, and brainstorm new ideas. The 2-day meeting was intense and sparked many fruitful discussions which the group is eager to further develop; for …
In April and June 2022, we were in one of the ECO²SCAPE transfer regions, the Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape Biosphere Reserve. The biosphere reserve has a long history of working with farmers to ensure the protection of arable flowering weeds in the region. We recorded the occurrence of flowering weeds on three of …
In October, a two-day kick-off meeting was held at the TU Dresden. Since several staff members were delayed by a thunderstorm on their way to Dresden, the next project meeting already took place in February in the model region “Vereinigte Mulde”. The meetings served the interdisciplinary exchange and the concretization of concrete work and tasks …
ECO²SCAPE: Kick-off and first project meeting in the study area Read More »
On 26.01.2021, we met with several farmers, the state farmers’ association and other regional actors (AbL, LfULG, UNB) for our first joint co-design workshop. Prior to the workshop, individual farmers had already developed a list of measures to preserve biodiversity in the model region together with our local practice partner, the Landschaftspflegeverband Nordwestsachsen e.V.. In …
The first joint co-design meeting for the development of conservation measures Read More »
Within the framework of a bachelor thesis and in cooperation with the junior professorship for environmental remote sensing, land use changes in the model region of ECO²SCAPE were evaluated. For this purpose, a satellite image from 1965 was classified and compared with a digital orthophoto from 2018. The evaluation shows that the size of agricultural …
