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)

Balancing competing ecosystem services requires stakeholder involvement and actions on different spatial scales.

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Klaus V., Bloor J.M.G., Cozzi G., Le Clec'h S., Peter S., Huguenin-Elie O.

Balancing competing ecosystem services requires stakeholder involvement and actions on different spatial scales.

Grassland Science in Europe, 29, 2024, 175-185.

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Link: Grassland Science in Europe Vol. 29

Riassunto:

Ecosystem services (ES) are highly important for human wellbeing, but many grassland ES show tradeoffs that are strengthened by management intensification. For example, high forage production conflicts with many cultural ES as well as the conservation of grassland biodiversity. Balancing these competing services is thus required to ensure that ES supply meets societal demand. This poses the question of how to achieve such a balance in the future. We discuss how involving stakeholders and implementing ESenhancing actions at landscape, farm, and field scales can contribute to tackling this urgent question. First, multi-stakeholder approaches are required to assess prioritisation of ES to understand societal ES demand, to design multi-functional landscapes, and to motivate farmers to increase insufficiently supplied ES. Second, different actions need to be implemented across spatial scales, with the landscape being crucial to balance ES by spatial targeting of different grassland types. In addition, actions to enhance ES that are in short supply can and must be taken at farm and field scale. Therefore, all three spatial scales should be considered to balance competing grassland ES. Our synthesis provides not only a framework for improved balancing of ES, but also gives applied examples how this can be achieved.

ISBN: 978-90-903-8494-8
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