Numero del progetto: 18.00.19.06.03

Recording and Evaluating Agricultural Landscape Services

A multifunctional agricultural sector is responsible inter alia for keeping the landscape open, and for contributing to its attractive appearance. Both services are compensated by direct payments. The present project clarifies

  • whether high-temporal-and-spatial-resolution satellite images are suitable for delimiting different usage patterns in grassland in the mountain region, thereby helping to monitor the maintenance of an open landscape;
  • what the relationship is between the costs of selected measures in landscape-quality projects on the one hand, and the effect on the population on the other.


The project also examines whether a survey of the population on the scenic quality of the landscape used in a FOEN landscape monitoring programme (LABES) would be suitable for monitoring agricultural-landscape-quality projects.

He X., Augusto L., Goll D., Ringeval B., Wang Y., Helfenstein J., Huang Y., Yu K., Wang Z., Yang Y., Hou E.
Global patterns and drivers of soil total phosphorus concentration.
Earth System Science Data, 13, 2021, 1-16.

Nisbet T., Andreucci M.-B., De Vreese R., Högbom L., Kay S., Kelly-Quinn M., Leonardi A., Lyubenova M. I., Ovando Pol P., Quinteiro P., Pérez Silos I., Valatin G.
Waldökosystemdienstleistungen für Wasser: Eine Schritt-für-Schritt- Anleitung für Vergütungsmodelle.
Payments for Ecosystem Services (Forest for Water), Farnham, Surrey. March 19, 2021, 24 pp.
altre lingue: inglese | other language

Nishizawa T., Kay S., Klein N., Schuler J., Zander P., Herzog F.
Integrated model-based investigation of farm management options and measures to improve biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in north-western Switzerland.
In: LANDSCAPE 2021 – Diversity for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture, Book of Abstracts. 20–22 September, Ed. Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Online Conference. 2021, 173.

Hepner S., Kreuzer A., Helfenstein J., Herzog F.
Polarization of agricultural landscape across Europe?: An analysis of changing land use intensity in 14 case study sites.
In: Landscape 2021 - Diversity for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture. 20 September, Ed. Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Berlin (online). 2021, 1.

Helfenstein J., Frossard E., Pistocchi C., Chadwick O., Vitousek P., Tamburini F.
Soil phosphorus exchange as affected by drying-rewetting of three soils from a hawaiian climatic gradient.
Frontiers in Soil Science, online, (2 November), 2021, 1-17.

Kreuzer A., Hepner S., Herzog F., Helfenstein J.
What is the effect of increasing field size on landscape structure elements?
In: Landscape 2021 - Diversity for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture. 21.09., Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Deutschland. 2021.

Kay S., Duguma L.A., Okia C.A.
The potentials of technology complementarity to address energy poverty in refugee hosting landscapes in Uganda.
Energy, Ecology and Environment, 6, (5), 2021, 395-407.

Jeanneret P., Aviron S., Alignier A., Lavigne C., Helfenstein J., Herzog F., Kay S., Petit S.
Agroecology landscapes.
Landscape Ecology, 36, 2021, 2235-2257.

Herzog F., Nair P.
Can temperate agroforestry systems contribute to Sustainable Intensification of agriculture?
In: 5th European Agroforestry Conference - Book of Abstracts - Agroforestry for the transition towards sustainability and bioeconomy. 17-19 May, Ed. EURAF - European Agroforestry Federation, Italy. 2021, 150-151.

Schoop J., Kay S.
Agroforestry in Switzerland – current research focus and policy developments.
In: 5th European Agroforestry Conference - Book of Abstracts. 17-19 May, Ed. EURAF - European Agroforestry Federation, Online - Italy. 2021, 330-331.

Reutimann A., Kay S., Herzog F., Naef A.
Agroforestry and climate change – can almonds be grown in northern Switzerland?
In: 5th European Agroforestry Conference - Book of Abstracts. 17-19 May, Ed. EURAF - European Agroforestry Federation, Online - Italy. 2021, 74-75.

Kay S., Herzog F.
Looking into the future – what is suitable to be grown and what is authorised to be grown in Switzerland?
In: 5th European Agroforestry Conference - Book of Abstracts. 17-19 May, Ed. EURAF - European Agroforestry Federation, Online - Italy. 2021, 54-55.

Yan Sun, Goll D., Cheng J., Ciais Ph., Guenet B., Helfenstein J., Huang Y., Lauerwald R., Maignan F., Naipal V., Wang Y., Yang H., Zhang H.
Global evaluation of the nutrient-enabled version of the land surface model ORCHIDEE-CNP v1.2 (r5986).
Geoscientific Model Development, 14, 2021, 1987-2010.

Churko G., Gramlich A., Walter T.
Vascular plant and ground beetle diversity on wet arable land versus conventional crop fields.
Basic and Applied Ecology, 53, 2021, 86-99.

Schüpbach B., Weiss S. B., Jeanneret P., Zalai M., Szalai M., Frör O.
What determines preferences for semi-natural habitats in agrarian landscapes? A choice-modelling approach across two countries using attributes characterising vegetation.
Landscape and Urban Planning, 206, (February), 2021, 1-12.

Vogel C, Helfenstein J., Massey M.S., Sekine R., Kretzschmar R., Beiping L., Peter T., Chadwick O.A., Tamburini F., Rivard C., Herzel H., Adam C., Pradas del Real A.E., Castillo-Michel H., Zuin L. e altri
Microspectroscopy reveals dust-derived apatite grains in acidic, highly-weathered Hawaiian soils.
Geoderma, 381, (114681), 2021.

Kay S., Herzog F.
Jahrestagung IG Agroforst Schweiz.
Schweizer Zeitschrift für Obst- und Weinbau, 16, 2020, 19.

Kay S., Jäger M., Schoop J., Tschopp D., Herzog F.
«Le poirier suisse» – producteur de fruits et/ou de bois d’oeuvre? : Conférence annuelle IG Agroforst Suisse.
Revue suisse de viticulture arboriculture horticulture, 52, (6), 2020, 374-375.

Klein N., Theux C., Arlettaz R., Jacot A., Pradervand J.N.
Modeling the effects of grassland management intensity on biodiversity.
Ecology and Evolution, 10, (23), 2020, 13518-13529.

Fox N., August T., Mancini F, Parks K., Eigenbrod F., Bullock J., Sutter L., Graham L.
“photosearcher” package in R: An accessible and reproducible method for harvesting large datasets from Flickr.
SoftwareX, 12, 2020.

Helfenstein J., Diogo V., Bürgi M., Verburg P., Swart R., Mohr F., Debonne N., Levers C., Herzog F.
Conceptualizing pathways to sustainable agricultural intensification.
Advances in Ecological Research, 63, 2020, 1-47.

Siegenthaler M.B., Tamburini F., Frossard E., Chadwick O., Vitousek P., Pistocchi C., Éva Mészáros, Helfenstein J.
A dual isotopic (32P and 18O) incubation study to disentangle mechanisms controlling phosphorus cycling in soils from a climatic gradient (Kohala, Hawaii).
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 149, (October), 2020, 1-12.

Kay S., Jäger M., Herzog F.
Moderne Agroforstsysteme in der Schweiz: Partizipative Entwicklung und künftige Herausforderungen.
Berichte über Landwirtschaft, 98, (2), 2020, 1-22.

Churko G., Walter T., Szerencsits E., Gramlich A.
Improving wetland connectivity through the promotion of wet arable land.
Wetlands Ecology and Management, online, 2020, 1-25.

Helfenstein J., Pistocchi C., Oberson A., Tamburini F., Goll D.S., Frossard E.
Estimates of mean residence times of phosphorus in commonly considered inorganic soil phosphorus pools.
Biogeosciences, 17, 2020, 441-454.

Schüpbach B., Roesch A., Herzog F., Szerencsits E., Walter T.
Development and application of indicators for visual landscape quality to include in life cycle sustainability assessment of Swiss agricultural farms.
Ecological Indicators, 110, 2020, 1-11.

Szerencsits E., Prasuhn V., Churko G., Herzog F., Utiger C., Zihlmann U., Walter T., Gramlich A.
Karte potentieller Feucht-(Acker-)Flächen in der Schweiz.
Agroscope Science, 72, 2018.

Churko G., Szerencsits E., Gramlich A., Prasuhn V., Walter T.
Arten der Feucht-(Acker-) Flächen in der Schweiz und Korridore zwischen Schutzobjekten.
Agroscope Science, 76, 2018.

Gramlich A., Stoll S, Aldrich A., Stamm C., Walter T., Prasuhn V.
Einflüsse landwirtschaftlicher Drainage auf den Wasserhaushalt, auf Nährstoffflüsse und Schadstoffaustrag - Eine Literaturstudie.
Agroscope Science, 73, 2018.

Zorn A.
Grundlagen der Wirtschaftlichkeit von Feucht-(Acker-)Flächen.
Agroscope Science, 75, 2018.

Jacot-Ammann K., Churko G., Burri M., Walter T.
Reisanbau im Mittelland auf temporär gefluteter Fläche möglich: Ein ökonomisch und ökologisch interessantes Nischenprodukt.
Agroscope Transfer, 238, 2018.
altre lingue: francese

Herzog F., Seidl I.
Swiss alpine summer farming: current status and future development under climate change.
Rangeland Journal, 40, 2018, 501-511.

Gramlich A., Stoll S., Stamm, C., Walter T., Prasuhn V.
Effects of artificial land drainage on hydrology, nutrient and pesticide fluxes from agricultural fields: A review.
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 266, 2018, 84-99.

Herzog F.
AlpFUTUR - Welche Zukunft hat die Alpwirtschaft in der Schweiz?
In: Wissenswert - 9. Landwirtschaftstagung "Almen nützen & schützen". 22. Juni, Ed. Nationalpark Hohe Tauern, Matrei i.O. 2018, 13-15.

Schulz T., Lauber S., Herzog F.
Summer farms in Switzerland: Profitability and public financial support.
Mountain Research and Development, 38, (a), 2018, 14-23.