TERENO - Siptenfelde - Germany

The main purpose of the six sites mentioned above is to investigate effects of land use and climate on biodiversity patterns in agriculturally dominated landscapes. Specifically we focus on vascular plants (surveyed each second to third year), arthropods (mainly pollinators, surveyed yearly by combined flight traps and butterfly transect counts) and birds (surveyed each third year) in relation to land use and climate change. Vegetation, land use data, bird and arthropod monitoring are regularly surveyed since 2009 (birds: 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017) and 2010 (insects) after the TERENO project started. A central weather station provides temperature, precipitation and humidity data and temperature loggers are attached to each trap to measure the local conditions. Moreover, crops grown are mapped each year and all habitats are classified according to the third level of EUNIS (European Nature Information System, https://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats-code-browser.jsp). For hydrological investigations a many devices are installed (weather station, groundwater gauges, soil moisture sensor network).