Effects of the Austrian Agri-environmental scheme on pollinators

Wild bees and hoverflies provide important ecosystem services as essential pollinators for our cultivated and wild plants. At the same time, flying insects have been in sharp decline in recent decades. Agri-environmental programmes such as ÖPUL are designed to counteract this. The aim of the project is to identify and describe fundamental relationships between ÖPUL measures and biodiversity parameters relating to wild bees and hoverflies. The project is being implemented with the help of data obtained from the wild bee and hoverfly monitoring programme.