Control

The use of antibiotics is not permitted in Switzerland; moreover, no other medication exists to combat European foul brood. Hives with symptoms must therefore be destroyed in order to limit the outbreak, and the contaminated material must be sanitised. Since prevention is the best cure, early detection is desirable. Numerous studies have been undertaken and documents have been created at the Swiss Bee Research Centre and elsewhere to draw the attention of beekeepers to these problems and inform them about the causes and the control measures to be implemented.

Merkblatt zur erkennung von Bienenbrutkrankheiten (German (PDF, 357 kB, 18.10.2017) and French (PDF, 226 kB, 02.02.2017))
M. Tschumi (2011)

Characterization factors to assess land use impacts on Pollinator abundance in life cycle assessment.

Institutional Repository Agroscope

Alejandre E. M., Scherer L., Guinée J. B., Aizen M. A., Albrecht M., Balzan M. V., Bartomeus I., Bevk D., Burkle L. A., Clough Y., Cole L. J., Delphia C. M., Dicks L. V.

Characterization factors to assess land use impacts on Pollinator abundance in life cycle assessment.

Environmental Science & Technology, 57, (8), 2023, 3445-3454.

Téléchargement anglais (3861 kB)

Résumé:

While wild pollinators play a key role in global food production, their assessment is currently missing from the most commonly used environmental impact assessment method, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This is mainly due to constraints in data availability and compatibility with LCA inventories. To target this gap, relative pollinator abundance estimates were obtained with the use of a Delphi assessment, during which 25 experts, covering 16 nationalities and 45 countries of expertise, provided scores for low, typical, and high expected abundance associated with 24 land use categories. Based on these estimates, this study presents a set of globally generic characterization factors (CFs) that allows translating land use into relative impacts to wild pollinator abundance. The associated uncertainty of the CFs is presented along with an illustrative case to demonstrate the applicability in LCA studies. The CFs based on estimates that reached consensus during the Delphi assessment are recommended as readily applicable and allow key differences among land use types to be distinguished. The resulting CFs are proposed as the first step for incorporating pollinator impacts in LCA studies, exemplifying the use of expert elicitation methods as a useful tool to fill data gaps that constrain the characterization of key environmental impacts.

ISSN Print 0013-936X
ISSN en ligne: 1520-5851
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c05311
ID publication (Code web): 53974 Envoyer par e-mail

Début de la page

Tierseuchenverordnung - Abschnitt: Sauerbrut der Bienen (German, French and Italian)

Technische Weisungen des BLV - Sauerbrut (German, French and Italian)

Main Navigation

Agroscope

Search

Breadcrumb

Control

Characterization factors to assess land use impacts on Pollinator abundance in life cycle assessment.