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Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Verkehr, Landwirtschaft und Weinbau
Rhineland-Palatinate
Stiftsstraße 9
55116 Mainz
Website: External link to the authority
Connecting isolated terrestrial habitats (biodiversity taxis 2.0)
Sheep farming needs landscapes rich on ecotones, permanent access to connecting pathways as corridors, and of course good economic conditions and fair prices for their activities especially for ecologic activities.
Objective of this study therefore is the geodata based assessment and mapping of sites with high potential for sheep farming and for best routing approaches to connect single sites. Sites with such a high potential and the connecting pathways can be mapped using high resolution geodata as well as potential obstacles. This will be realised for the western part of the Eifel as pilot region.
Biodiversity will be improved by connecting such single “island” sites and additionally there will be positive effects on the economic situations of the sheep farmers. Sheep function as taxis of biodiversity by transporting micro animals and diaspores from one habitat to another. This leads to an improvement regarding the probability of surviving of flora and fauna as well as a better fitting for climate change.
The shepherds move to service provider for agroecology by linking ecological important habitats in a long term using even unknown connecting sit
Workable answers to important questions from itinerant shepherds could be found for the West Eifel project area. With the help of machine learning methods, new grazing potential could be determined and evaluated in the GIS. A total of 33,418 potential areas were classified into 3 classes (extensive grassland, semi-extensive grassland, intensive grassland) and evaluated with regard to their grazing ability, and additional characterizing information was stored. The aim of the study was, for example, to logistically optimize previous migration routes of the shepherds, identify alternative routes and detect routes to new grazing potential. The accompanying diaspore surveys were able to provide important insights into the transportability of the sheepskin and thus prove an ecological benefit of transhumance, according to which up to 2 million seeds can be tolerated in a vegetation period in a flock of 500 sheep.
Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)
Rheinland-Pfalz AgroScience GmbH Institut für Agrarökologie (IfA)
Breitenweg 71 (Ortsteil Mußbach)
67435 Neustadt an der Weinstraße
Phone: +49 6321 671-426
Email: matthias.trapp@agroscience.rlp.de
2016
completed
324,285
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