Dr Felix Herzog was previously Head of a team of 50 in the Agricultural Landscape and Biodiversity Research Group at Agroscope, Switzerland before retiring from his position in 2025. With 30 years’ experience and over 150 publications, Dr Herzog is internationally renowned for his research on understanding and enhancing the critical role of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. He is on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including Agronomy for Sustainable Development, and has participated in a number of major EU research projects relating to biodiversity and agriculture.

Part 1 Current farmland biodiversity monitoring schemes

• 1.Key challenges in developing national or regional farmland biodiversity monitoring programmes: Felix Herzog, formerly Agroscope, Switzerland;
• 2.Farmland biodiversity monitoring in Europe: Finland: Terho Hyvönen, Natural Resources Institute (LUKE), Finland;
• 3.Farmland biodiversity monitoring in Europe: Germany: Christian Levers, Damien Finn, Sebastian Klimek, Demetra Rakosy, Wiebke Sickel, Jens Dauber, Andrea Ackermann, Norbert Röder, Thünen Institute of Rural Studies, Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute - Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry, and Fisheries, Germany; Anna F. Cord, University of Bonn, Germany; Stefan Erasmi, Marcel Schwieder, Thünen Institute of Farm Economics, Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute - Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry, and Fisheries, Germany; Burkhard Golla, Tanja Rottstock, Institute for Strategies and Technology Assessment, Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants, Germany; Sophie Ogan, Coordination Unit Climate, Soil, Biodiversity, Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute - Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry, and Fisheries, Germany; Johanna Wider and Monika Winkler, Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), Information and Coordination Centre for Biological Diversity (IBV), Germany;
• 4.Farmland biodiversity monitoring in Europe: Norway: Wendy Fjellstad, NIBIO, Norway;
• 5.Farmland biodiversity monitoring in Europe: Sweden: Anna Allard, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden;
• 6.Farmland biodiversity monitoring in Europe: Switzerland: Eliane Meier, Agroscope, Switzerland;
• 7.Farmland biodiversity monitoring in Europe: UK: Claire Wood, UK Center for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), UK;
• 8.Farmland biodiversity monitoring in the Americas: USA: Amielle DeWan, Impact by Design, USA;
• 9.Farmland biodiversity monitoring in the Americas: Canada: Juli Carrillo, University of British Columbia, Canada;
• 10.Farmland biodiversity monitoring in Africa, Asia and the Pacific: Australia: David Lindenmayer, Australian National University, Australia;
• 11.Farmland biodiversity monitoring in Africa, Asia and the Pacific: China: Meichun Duan, Southwest University, China;
• 12.Farmland biodiversity monitoring in Africa, Asia and the Pacific: Africa: Inza Koné, Swiss Center for Scientific Research in Côte d'Ivoire, Côte d'Ivoire;

Part 2 Regional and international farmland biodiversity monitoring programmes

• 13.Regional and international farmland biodiversity monitoring programmes: biodiversity indicators in the FAO agroecology indicator framework: Anina Gilgen, Agroscope, Switzerland;
• 14.Regional and international farmland biodiversity monitoring programmes: agricultural biodiversity indicators in the European Union: Laura Sutcliffe, Institute for Agricultural Ecology and Biodiversity, Germany;
• 15.Assessing the cost of farmland biodiversity monitoring programmes: Stefano Targetti, University of Bologna, Italy;

Part 3 Techniques and technologies for collecting data for agricultural biodiversity monitoring

• 16.Classical species recording methods to monitor biodiversity in farmed landscapes: Philippe Jeanneret, Agroscope, Switzerland;
• 17.Monitoring farmland biodiversity using remote sensing: Caterina Barrasso, Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI) Dresden/Leipzig, TUD Dresden University of Technology and Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation – University of Bonn, Germany; Stephanie Roilo, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation – University of Bonn, Germany; Antonia Ludwig, Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing – Leipzig University, Germany; Vítězslav Moudrý and Jan Komárek, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic; Robert Krüger, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing – TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany; Christopher Marrs, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany; and Anna F. Cord, Institute for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing – Leipzig University, Germany;
• 18.Improving biodiversity monitoring by farmers: Cathy Hawes, James Hutton Institute, UK;
• 19.Optimising the role of citizen science in biodiversity monitoring in farmed landscapes: Erik Öckinger, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden;
• 20.Developing biodiversity indicators to monitor biodiversity in farmed landscapes: key issues and challenges: Irene Petrosillo, University of Salento, Italy;
• 21.Challenges and solutions in data management for biodiversity monitoring for farmed landscapes: Anabela Plos, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Argentina;
• 22.Developing biodiversity monitoring tools for use in farmed landscapes: Michael Curran, FiBL, Switzerland;

Part 4 Conclusion

• 23.From farmland biodiversity monitoring to protection: Felix Herzog, formerly Agroscope, Switzerland;