Promoting Pollinating Insects in Intensive Agricultural Matrices: Field-Scale Experimental Manipulation of Hay-Meadow Mowing Regimes and Its Effects on Bees

Bees are a key component of biodiversity as they ensure a crucial ecosystem service: pollination. This ecosystem service is nowadays threatened, because bees suffer from agricultural intensification. Yet, bees rarely benefit from the measures established to promote biodiversity in farmland, such as agri-environment schemes (AES). We experimentally tested if the spatio-temporal modification of mowing regimes within extensively managed hay meadows, a widespread AES, can promote bees. We applied a randomized block design, replicated 12 times across the Swiss lowlands, that consisted of three different mowing treatments: 1) first cut not before 15 June (conventional regime for meadows within Swiss AES); 2) first cut not before 15 June, as treatment 1 but with 15% of area left uncut serving as a refuge; 3) first cut not before 15 July. Bees were collected with pan traps, twice during the vegetation season (before and after mowing). Wild bee abundance and species richness significantly increased in meadows where uncut refuges were left, in comparison to meadows without refuges: there was both an immediate (within year) and cumulative (from one year to the following) positive effect of the uncut refuge treatment. An immediate positive effect of delayed mowing was also evidenced in both wild bees and honey bees. Conventional AES could easily accommodate such a simple management prescription that promotes farmland biodiversity and is likely to enhance pollination services.

Geschichte der Entstehung, des Fortgangs und des gegenwärtigen Standes der Hofheimer Viehgewährungsgesellschaft im Unter-Mainkreise

welche der Landrichter Stecher im Jahre 1821 eingeführt hat, von ihm selbst hrsg.

The Role of Environmental and Land Transaction Regulations on Agricultural Land Price: The example of Brittany. Factor Markets Working Document No. 52, June 2013

Using data from individual transactions for the period 1994-2010 in the French NUTS2 region Brittany, the authors investigated how environmental regulations and transaction land regulations influence the price of sold plots. Regressions on three sub-samples of buyers were performed in order to assess whether different buyers have different attitudes or plans regarding the farmland purchased: a sub-sample including only farmer-buyers, a sub-sample including non-farmer individual buyers, and a sub-sample including non-farmer non-individual buyers. Estimations were performed ignoring and accounting for spatial interactions (model SARAR). Results indicate that the price of land decreases when buyers are farmers, that the nitrate surplus area zoning increases the price of land, even more so for farmer-buyers. Regarding land transaction regulations, there is a negative effect, on land price, of the purchaser being the current tenant or being the land regulating public body SAFER. Estimating the model on different sub-samples depending on the buyers’ type shed light on the factors that are more important for each buyer.

A Miracle in stone : or, The Great pyramid of Egypt /

Includes index.

Le Pausanias français : état des arts du dessin en France, à l'ouverture du XIXe siecle : Salon de 1806 : ouvrage dans lequel les principales productions de l'école actuelle sont classées, expliquées, analysées, à l'aide d'un commentaire exact, raisonné, et représentées dans une suite de dessins exécutés et gravés par les plus habiles artistes : on y a joint quelques portraits, gravés au trait, de grands artistes vivans, avec des notices historiques et inédites, concernant leur personne et leurs ouvrages /

Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes,

Cours élémentaire de teinture sur laine, soie, lin, chanvre et coton: et sur l'art d'imprimer les toiles /

All copies are signed by the editor and initialized by the author.

Inventaire-sommaire des archives départementales antérieures à 1790 : Isère /

t. 1. Archives civiles. Séries A et B.

Contes du cheykh êl-Mohdy,

Mode of access: Internet.

Romancero général; ou, Recueil des chants populaires de l'Espagne. Romances historiques, chevaleresques, et moresques.

Mode of access: Internet.

Les fondements de la vie spirituelle : tirés du livre de l'imitation de Jésus-Christ /

Mode of access: Internet.

Essai sur cette question : quels sont les meilieurs moyens de prévenir, avec les seules ressources de la France, la disette des blés et les trop grandes variations dans leurs prix? Mémoire qui a obtenu une médaille d'or de la Société d'agriculture, commerce, sciences et arts du département de la Marne, dans la sénce du 16 aoØut 1819 /

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Institutiones pastorales ... /

"Institutio pastoralis ... super constitutione unigenitus ..." 129 p., con port. y sign. propias, 1720 ; "Alterum pastorale documentum : complectens secundum monitum ... Languet ...", 120 p. con port. y sign. propias, 1720 ; "Monitum pastorale tertium ... Languet ..." 174 p. con port. y sign. propias, 1721.

Commentarius in Apocalypsim S. Joannis apostoli /

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Dissertation sur la contagion de la peste ...

Mode of access: Internet.