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Simulating the Effects of Agrochemicals and Other Risk-Bearing Management Measures on the Terrestrial Agrobiodiversity: The RISKMIN Approach

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The RISKMIN Model was a research project funded by the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety between 2012 and 2016 to support the development of a landscape-based mitigation approach for assessing different measures and their effects on agrobiodiversity. Conducted by an interdisciplinary cooperation between different research groups in Germany two representative landscapes were chosen as pilot regions. Based on a very high-resolution landscape analysis and a comprehensive survey of the terrestrial agrobiodiversity in these regions a simulation of different risk mitigation measures was realized by reference to potential scenarios. The resulting effects could be analysed, quantified and visualized with the help of geographic information systems (GIS). Main results are that the most effective measure on landscape level is the extensification of the land use, but on the other hand, that the combination of in crop and off crop measures does have the most effects for the landscape elements with the highest ecological values.

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We thank the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety for funding the research project called “Landschaftsbezogene Risikominderungsmaßnahmen zur Förderung der terrestrischen Agrobiodiversität (RISKMIN)”. The full document can be downloaded by https://www.bvl.bund.de/DE/04_Pflanzenschutzmittel/01_Aufgaben/09_GesundheitNaturhaushalt/02_SchutzNaturhaushalt/psm_SchutzNaturhaushalt_RiskMin_basepage.html. We also thank the Land Survey Authorities in Rhineland—Palatinate and in North Rhine—Westphalia for supporting this research project by giving the license of using geodata: © LVermGeo 2019, www.lvermgeo.rlp.de Open.NRW—Das Open Government Portal für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, “www.open.nrw”.

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Trapp, M., Deubert, M., Streib, L., Scholz-Starke, B., Roß-Nickoll, M., Toschki, A. (2020). Simulating the Effects of Agrochemicals and Other Risk-Bearing Management Measures on the Terrestrial Agrobiodiversity: The RISKMIN Approach. In: Mirschel, W., Terleev, V., Wenkel, KO. (eds) Landscape Modelling and Decision Support. Innovations in Landscape Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37421-1_23

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