Biodiversity and ecosystem services in European vineyards

24 November 2022

Symposium

• S21 • 13:45 > 15:45 • Biodiversity and ecosystem services in European vineyards • Room 05

Main organizer (applicant) of the symposium (Name, institution, email):
Armin Bischoff, IMBE Avignon University, CNRS, IRD, Aix-Marseille University, armin.bischoff@univ-avignon.fr

Session description : Vineyards belong to the most intensively used agroecosystems in Europe. Insecticide and fungicide treatments are common, often accompanied by weed control using glyphosate. In particular, regular inter-row tillage has resulted in a loss of plant and related arthropod diversity. Recent approaches to restore vineyard biodiversity have shown that environmentally sound management may not only increase species richness but also provide ecosystem services such as improved regulation of pests, increased pollination, improvement of soil structure and reduction of soil erosion. In the present symposium, the relationship between vineyard management, biological diversity and ecosystem functions or services will be analysed and discussed in seven talks from four different European countries. The session keynote speaker Silvia Winter from BOKU Vienna presents an overview on trade-offs and synergies of biodiversity, ecosystem service provision and grapevine production. The two following talks by Adrien Rusch and Verena Rösch will analyse biodiversity at landscape scale in France and in Germany focusing on semi-natural habitats within and outside vineyards. They are followed by four presentations highlighting the importance of inter-row vegetation for vineyard biodiversity and related ecosystem services. The talks by Karsten Mody and Lea Schubert/Daniel Elias will show approaches to sow and establish species-rich inter-row vegetation and its effects on arthropod communities in two different German regions. Tamas Miglecz presents an evaluation of different Hungarian approaches to establish cover crops in vineyards and apple orchards. And the final talk by Leo Rocher and Emile Melloul will demonstrate interactions between spontaneous inter-row vegetation and predatory arthropods involved in biological control of pest insects. The presentation takes into account consequences of increased irrigation to compensate for water competition and for climate change induced drought. The work of the last three talks is part of the EU funded international Life project VineAdapt that also contributes to symposium funding.

· Speakers (Names, affiliations, emails, and tentative talk titles). Only speakers who have been contacted by the organizer(s), and have committed to the session should be listed.
WINTER, Silvia, BOKU Vienna, Austria (session keynote, 30 min): Sustainable vineyard vegetation management - balancing trade-offs and synergies of biodiversity and ecosystem service provision
RUSCH, Adrien, INRAE, Bordeaux, France (15 min): Combining in-field and off-field management options to benefit biodiversity and ecosystem services in vineyard landscapes
RÖSCH, Verena, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany (15 min): Effects of semi-natural habitat cover on breeding bird diversity and abundance in vineyard landscapes
MODY, Karsten, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Germany (15 min): Species-rich inter-row vegetation in vineyards: establishment, management and effects on arthropod abundance and diversity
SCHUBERT, Lea, ELIAS, Daniel, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bernburg, Germany (15 min): Effects of wildflower sowing on plant and insect diversity in Eastern German vineyards
MOGLECZ, Tamás, ÖMKi - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Budapest, Hungary (15 min): Evaluation of ecosystem services in Hungarian cover crop projects
ROCHER, Leo, MELLOL, Emile, IMBE University of Avignon, CNRS, IRD, Aix-Marseille University, Avignon, France (15 min): Effects of vineyard inter-row vegetation and irrigation on arthropod predators in Southern France

· Sponsorship: The travel costs of the keynote speaker will be funded by the EU Life project VineAdapt (up to a limit of 500 Euros).

• INT11 • Sustainable vineyard vegetation management - balancing trade-offs and synergies of biodiversity and ecosystem service provision > S. Silvia WINTER • INT143 • Combining in-field and off-field management options to benefit biodiversity and ecosystem services in vineyard landscapes • INT144 • Effects of semi-natural habitat cover on breeding bird diversity and abundance in vineyard landscapes > V. Verena RÖSCH • INT145 • Species-rich inter-row vegetation in vineyards: establishment, management and effects on arthropod abundance and diversity > K. Karsten MODY • INT146 • Effects of wildflower sowing on plant and insect diversity in Eastern German vineyards > L. Lea Franziska SCHUBERT • INT147 • Evaluation of ecosystem services in Hungarian cover crop projects > T. Tamás MIGLÉCZ • INT148 • Effects of vineyard inter-row vegetation and irrigation on arthropod predators in Southern France > L. Leo ROCHER, E. Emile MELLOUL