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Monitoring the effects of conversion to organic farming

Project Leader: Freyer Bernhard, Project Leader

Contact person:: Surböck Andreas

Duration:: 01.01.2006-31.03.2009

Type of Research: Applied Research

Project partners: Bio Forschung Austria, Austria.
Function of the Project Partner: Partner; Landwirtschaftliche Bundesversuchswirtschaften GmbH, Rottenhauserstraße 32, 3250 Wieselburg, Austria.
Function of the Project Partner: Partner

Staff: Surböck Andreas, Project Staff

BOKU Research Units: Experimental Farm Großenzersdorf; Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning; Institute for Soil Physics and Rural Water Management; Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Economics (AFO); Institute of Botany; Institute of Integrative Nature Conservation Research; Institute of Livestock Sciences (NUWI); Institute of Meteorology and Climatology; Institute of Organic Farming; Institute of Soil Research; Institute of Zoology

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Funded by: Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management , Stubenring 1, A-1012 Wien, Austria

Abstract: To examine the development of organic farming a long term field monitoring was established at the biofarm “Rutzendorf” of the “Landwirtschaftlichen Bundesversuchswirtschaften GmbH” in the Marchfeld region east of Vienna. It is an interdisciplinary project of eleven scientific institutes which started in 2003. For this purpose a scientific concept was created and data have been ascertained in the first three project years. In the following project phase, data ascertainment for the monitoring will be continued and data acquisiton will be optimized. In subareas of the project, new supplementing examinations will be integrated. The aims of the project are: examination of changes concerning soil and plant parameters with the conversion to organic farming; investigation of the effects of different organic fertilisation systems on soil properties and on crop performances; analysis of existing biotops (hedges and strips of flowering plants) on the farm and planning and selective realization of new biotops with the aim of enhancing the biodiversity of the area, offering habitats for beneficials and reducing wind erosion potential.

Publications

Surböck, A; Freyer, B; Friedel, J K (2011): Zum Beitrag der Biologischen Landwirtschaft für die biologische Vielfalt.

Natur und Landschaft, 86. Jahrgang, Heft 9, 465-465; ISSN 0028-0615

Gerersdorfer T., Eitzinger J., (2011): Spatial climatic variability in agricultural areas and its relevance to climate trends .
[International Conference on current knowledge of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Forestry in Europe, COST734 Final Conference in cooperation with COST FP0703C and OPAG III of CAgM of WMO 2011, Topolcianky, Slovak Republic, 03.05.2011 - 06.05.2011]

In: Slovak Hydro-meteorological Institute(SHMU), International Conference on current knowledge of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Forestry in Europe

Gerersdorfer, T., Eitzinger, J., Laube, W. (2011): Mikroklima im Bereich von Hecken und die Bedeutung für die Sicherung der landwirtschaftlichen Produktion. [Poster]
[12. Österreichischer Klimatag 2011 - Forschung zu Klima, Klimawandel und Auswirkungen in Österreich, Vienna, Austria, 21.09.2011 - 22.09.2011]

In: Klimaforschungsinitiative AustroClim, Tagungsband des 12. Österreichischen Klimatags "Klima, Klimawandel, Auswirkungen und Anpassung in Österreich"

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