Question-based Monitoring of Agricultural Biodiversity Tool

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The question-based monitoring tool complements the 'Agricultural Biodiversity Trend Monitoring' tool of MonViA by addressing important biodiversity monitoring questions requiring a more profound analysis based on an extended set of indicators. Agri-environment policies adjust to new scientific evidence, and often there is a need for in-depth monitoring to evaluate the impacts of the new approaches based on recent findings. This tool of MonViA is more flexible, depend less on long time series data and adapt its content and methods to the changing questions.

The questions of the monitoring tool address:

  • the improvement of pollination and the ecosystem services of insects;
  • the promotion of biodiversity through modified cultivation systems;
  • the impact of agri-environmental measures on biodiversity;
  • integrated pest management.
Question-based monitoring
Relevance for monitoring and evaluation of the CAP

This tool of MonViA will provide answers to specific monitoring and evaluation questions.

Evaluating agricultural impacts on pollination: This tool addresses the effects of agricultural activity on pollinators, one of the most crucial risk factors to contemporary nature conservation.

Evaluating impacts of agri-environment measures on nature conservation: Evaluation questions on the impacts of agri-environmental actions or adopting integrated pest management (a widely spread farm management practice) on biodiversity are addressed.

Guidelines for preserving biodiversity: This tool provides design guidelines for spatial allocation and the temporal distribution of insect-friendly areas within the cultivated land to achieve optimal insect population preservation.

This monitoring tool of MonViA, together with the two other tools (the agricultural biodiversity trend monitoring and the citizen science-based monitoring), will complement the national conservation monitoring schemes to offer an integrated monitoring framework. The data and methods of MonVia are a supplement to the corresponding ongoing federal conservation monitoring programme. Thus, there are no particular prerequisites to use the monitoring data when they become publicly available. MonVia’s approach to agricultural biodiversity monitoring may benefit the other Member States with a similar monitoring background and monitoring needs.

Last modification date: 
08/12/2021