Erich Szerencsits

Agroscope Zürich, Switzerland · Agrarökologie und Umwelt

Full text is a shortened version of the thesis. See as well: http://www.landscapeonline.de/archive/2012/28/Szerencsits_LO28_2012.pdf http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479707002393 A prospering economy bonded to a growing number of inhabitants, urban sprawl, perpetual mobility, and changes in agriculture put growing pressure on...

Zusammenfassung Rund 30 % der Fruchtfolgeflächen der Schweiz (137 000 ha) sind drainiert. Zunehmend stellt sich für die älteren Drainagen die Frage der Erneuerung und der entsprechenden Kostenfolgen. Gleichzeitig sind Feuchtlebensräume in der Agrarlandschaft durch die grossflächige Entwässerung selten geworden. Die Entwässerung beeinflusst verschie...

Terre assolée humide, périodiquement saturée d'eau jusqu'à la surface. (Photo: Thomas Walter, Agroscope) Résumé En Suisse, environ 30 % des surfaces d'assolement (137 000 ha) sont drainées. De plus en plus, la question de la rénovation des anciens drainages se pose et avec elle, celle des conséquences financières qui en découlent. Parallèlement, le...

There is broad agreement that agriculture has to become more sustainable in order to provide enough affordable, healthy food at minimal environmental and social costs. But what is "more sustainable"? More often than not, different stakeholders have opposing opinions on what a more sustainable future should look like. This normative dimension is rar...

Rural Europe encompasses a variety of landscapes with differing levels of forest, agriculture, and agroforestry that can deliver multiple ecosystem services (ES). Whilst provisioning and regulating ES associated with individual land covers are comparatively well studied, less is known about the associated cultural ES. Only seldom are provisioning,...

A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-021-00641-7

Modern agricultural practices have rendered habitat scarce and isolated for wetland species throughout the Swiss lowlands. The targeted promotion of practices that embrace wet arable land rather than drain it may be the key to establishing a robust and thriving wetland network. We test the ability of a recently developed national wetness-potential...

Mosaics of agricultural land, forests, and other semi-natural areas represent landscapes providing valuable habitats and resources for various insect groups. We investigated the added value of agroforestry, the combination of crops or grasslands with woody elements, for important pollinating insects e.g. wild bees and associated pollination service...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X19307824 Agricultural life cycle analysis (LCA) provides information about the environmental footprint of farming. Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) includes social and economic indicators. As a contribution to LCSA, we developed an indicator measuring the impact of individual far...

Agroforestry, relative to conventional agriculture, contributes significantly to carbon sequestration, increases a range of regulating ecosystem services, and enhances biodiversity. Using a transdisciplinary approach, we combined scientific and technical knowledge to evaluate nine environmental pressures in terms of ecosystem services in European f...

The study assessed the economic performance of marketable ecosystem services (ES) (biomass production) and non-marketable ecosystem services and dis-services (groundwater, nutrient loss, soil loss, carbon sequestration, pollination deficit) in 11 contrasting European landscapes dominated by agroforestry land use compared to business as usual agricu...

Context Agroforestry systems in temperate Europe are known to provide both, provisioning and regulating ecosystem services (ES). Yet, it is poorly understood how these systems affect ES provision at a landscape scale in contrast to agricultural practises. Objectives This study aimed at developing a novel, spatially explicit model to assess and qua...

Agroforestry systems are known to provide ecosystem services which differ in quantity and quality from conventional agricultural practices and could enhance rural landscapes. In this study we compared ecosystem services provision of agroforestry and non-agroforestry landscapes in case study regions from three European biogeographical regions: Medit...

Agroforestry in Switzerland makes up approximately twelve per cent of the country"s farmland, with forest pastures, hedgerows and traditional fruit orchards being the most widespread systems. Those traditional agroforestry systems receive policy support due to the ecosystem services they provide, notably for biodiversity and landscape scenery. Unde...

Dry up the swamps! In some cases, the melioration failed and parts of the wetlands became conservation areas. For a large extent of drained land, agriculture again faces similar challenges decades later. Large investments are needed as one third of Switzerland’s drainage systems are in poor or unknown conditions (Béguin & Smola 2010). Whilst, in ea...

Habitat descriptors are cost effective biodiversity indicators demanded by stakeholders and required for regional and global biodiversity monitoring. We mapped 195 farms of different types in twelve case study regions across Europe and tested 18 habitat descriptors for scientific validity, information content and ease of interpretation. We propose...

Agricultural policy in Europe is moving towards greater support of multifunctional agriculture, such as agroforestry systems. However, modern farmers appear to be resisting this change. Trees in agricultural landscapes have been declining, despite increasing direct payments for their ecosystem services. To understand the drivers of farmer behaviour...

Farmland is a major land cover type in Europe and Africa and provides habitat for numerous species. The severe decline in farmland biodiversity of the last decades has been attributed to changes in farming practices, and organic and low-input farming are assumed to mitigate detrimental effects of agricultural intensification on biodiversity. Since...

Diese Plattform hat die AGFF im Rahmen des Europäischen Forschungsprojektes Cantogether FP7-289328 angeregt und mitentwickelt. Die Software wurde in Spanien programmiert und auf die Bedürfnisse in der Schweiz angepasst. Parallel dazu entstand eine Kontaktplattform für Irland, auf der Schweineproduzenten nach Ackerbaubetrieben suchen können, um ihre...

Cette plateforme a été proposée et co-développée par l’ADCF dans le cadre du projet de recherche européen Cantogether FP7-289328. Le logiciel a été programmé en Espagne et adapté aux besoins de la Suisse. Parallèlement, une plateforme de contact a été créée pour l’Irlande, sur laquelle les producteurs porcins peuvent chercher des exploitations de g...

Questa piattaforma è stata ideata e sviluppata come parte del progetto europeo di ricerca Cantogether FP7-289328. Il software è stato programmato in Spagna ed adattato per le esigenze della Svizzera. Parallelamente è stata creata una piattaforma per l‘Irlanda, grazie alla quale i produttori di suini possono effettuare una ricerca di aziende agricol...

There is an increasing recognition of the diverse ecosystem services provided by agro- forestry systems. With benefits for rural livelihoods, food security and biodiversity conser- vation. In Europe, agricultural policy is moving towards greater support of multifunctional agriculture. However, modern farmers appear to be resisting this change. For...

A Swiss wide classification of landscape types was elaborated to enable developing goals for landscape development and regionally adapted measures (Szerencsits et al. 2009). The hierarchical classification is based on a concept suggested for Switzerland by Gutersohn (1950) and introduced to modern landscape ecology by O’Neill et al. (1986). Themati...

About one-third of the world’s land surface is used for farming, a fact that bears important implications for biodiversity. In Europe, for instance, an estimated 50 percent of all wild species are reliant on agricultural habitats, while agricultural productivity often depends on the presence or absence of particular species. Despite this close coup...

In Brief About one-third of the world's land surface is used for farming, a fact that bears important implications for biodiversity. In Europe, for instance, an estimated 50 percent of all wild species are reliant on agricultural habitats, while agricultural productivity often depends on the presence or absence of particular species. Despite this c...

download from http://www.landscapeonline.de/archive/2012/28/Szerencsits_LO28_2012.pdf Mountain timber lines are relevant in the context of land abandonment and climate change. For Switzerland, GIS-compliant delimitations of the tree line and the forest line are still lacking. Recent high-resolution landcover information offers new possibilities fo...

Geodata from the article Erich Szerencsits (2012): Swiss Tree Lines – a GIS-Based Approximation Landscape Online 28, 1-18 . DOI:10.3097/LO.201228S download from http://www.landscape-online.de/archive/2012/28/Szerencsits_LO28_2012.pdf

The relationship between plant diversity and topographic variability in agricultural landscapes was investigated, with the aim of determining whether sampling landscape units of 1 km2 (LUs) across a gradient of topographic variability is more efficient than a random design for assessing the range of biodiversity in climatically and biogeographicall...

Die Schweiz stellt für die Koexistenz von nicht gentechnisch veränderten Kulturen mit transgenen Kulturen einen schwierigen Fall dar. Der kleinstrukturierte Agrarraum, die kritische Einstellung der Schweizer Bevölkerung gegenüber der Grünen Gentechnik, sowie der Schutz der gentechnik-freien Produktion würden eine Umsetzung der Koexistenz erschweren...

Switzerland constitutes a difficult case for the coexistence of nongenetically modified crops with transgenic crops. The small-scale agricultural area and the critical attitude of the Swiss population to green genetic engineering throw doubt on the feasibility of coexistence. A survey was conducted to sound out the potential willingness to cultivat...

Spatial modelling of environmental indicators has been well established in landscape ecology and in nature conservation on regional and national scales over the recent past. Yet, using spatial information as a basis for the coordination of environmental measures on a trans-national European level reveals several shortcomings and hindrances, ranging...

Wenn man über die Zukunft einer Landschaft spricht, wird man zwangs-läufig auf folgende Fragen stossen: Was ist für eine Landschaft typisch? Welche Merkmale charakterisieren eine Landschaft? Was ist zu tun, um den Charakter einer Landschaft nachhaltig zu entwickeln? Sind die Massnahmen auf andere Landschaften übertragbar? Eine Landschaftstypisierun...

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A major concern related to the adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops in agricultural systems is the possibility of unwanted GM inputs into non-GM crop production systems. Given the increasing commercial cultivation of GM crops in the European Union (EU), there is an urgent need to define measures to prevent mixing of GM with non-GM products d...

Am 1. Januar 2008 ist eine Revision der Direktzahlungsverordnung in Kraft getreten. Neu wird unter anderem entlang von Oberflächengewässern ein Gewässerschonstreifen von mindestens sechs Metern Breite, statt bisher drei Metern, vorgeschrieben. Im Rahmen der Vernehmlassung wurde vor allem auf die grosse Fläche verwiesen, die von Nutzungsauflagen bet...

Changes in agricultural policy have traceable effects on landscape aesthetics. For the catchment area of Lake Greifensee, an economic land-use model predicted land-use changes caused by agricultural policy. Three scenarios implementing different direct payment schemes show that land-use intensity will decrease by 2011 compared with the 'reference s...

Selecting meaningful metrics to describe landscapes is difficult due to our limited understanding of the links between landscape pattern and ecological process, the numerous indices available and the interaction between the spatial characteristics of the system and metric behaviour. We used an exploratory approach (factor and cluster analysis) for...

A nationwide classification of Swiss landscapes was carried out to provide the administration with a tool to evaluate landscapes by indicators, to compare landscapes, and to develop landscape targets. The target of the delineation was to derive large polygons, representing large geomorphologic units. As differences in landscape character are often...

Die Präsentation gibt einen Überblick über die Erarbeitung und Konzeption einer Landschaftstypisierung in der Schweiz. Die Landschaftstypisierung soll als räumlich konkretes Modell helfen, die Landschaften vergleichbar zu machen und damit eine Grundlage für die Beurteilung der Landschaften schaffen. Der Bund benötigt diese Grundlagen, um die konkre...

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Sustainability has become a central term in environmental planning and policy since the late 1980s. However, an understanding of landscapes in terms of sustainability is still poorly developed. The project Spatial Indices for Land Use Sustainability was conducted to elaborate spatially explicit indicators for mapping ecological sustainability. Ecol...

Aufgabe des interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts Greifensee ist es, Massnahmen zur Unterstützung einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung der Landwirtschaft vorzuschlagen. Dazu werden Szenarien der Landschaftsentwicklung bis ins Jahr 2011 modelliert. Zur Charakterisierung der Landschaften in der Region Greifensee wurde eine Landschaftstypisierung nach natu...