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Project ID:10 | Module:2 | Status: finished
How the interaction between cultural traditions and socio-economically motivated changes in agricultural land use is shaping future grassland biodiversity in the landscape of the Alps

                           
Contact: Dr. Markus Fischer
Villa Liegnitz, Lennéstr. 7a
14471 Potsdam
e-mail: fischerm@rz.uni-potsdam.de
Phone/Fax: 0049 331 977 4884 / Fax: 0049 331 977 4861
Web: http://www.unizh.ch/uwinst/homepages/fischer.html

Study areas: Ramosch (GR), Braggio (GR), Trun (GR), Bedretto (TI), Linthal (GL), Unterschächen (UR), Gadmen (BE), Guttannen (BE), Pany (GR), Vals (GR), Medels (GR), Bosco Gurin (TI)

Project partners: Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft (BLW), Amt für Natur- und Landschaftsschutz Kanton Graubünden

Summary:

The ecological, economic, cultural, ethical, and esthetical value of biodiversity had been acknowledged with the “Convention on Biological Diversity” worked out in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. However, comprehensive studies on biodiversity ...  ->read more


Description:
How does cultural tradition influence biodiversity in the meadows and pastures of the Alps?

Meadows and pastures are important elements in the cultivated landscape of the Alpine area. About three times as many species of plants flouri...  ->read more

Other publications
and activities:
Poster:Cultural traditions and biodiversity of grasslands in the Swiss Alps [Markus Fischer, (English)]
Abstract:How the interaction between cultural traditions and socio-economically motivated changes in agricultural land use is shaping future grassland biodiversity in the landscape of the Alps [Markus Fischer, Jürg Stöcklin, Katrin Maurer, Anne Weyand, (English)]




A Programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation