{"id":287,"date":"2026-07-16T09:23:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobicolas.agroscope.ch\/?p=287"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:41:07","slug":"collaborative-approaches-and-ecological-network-projects-in-switzerland-where-and-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobicolas.agroscope.ch\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative approaches and ecological network projects in Switzerland: where and when?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">16.07.2026, by Maximilian Meyer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Where and when are ecological network projects established in Switzerland? This was a question that we asked ourselves and there was no clear answer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Switzerland is a pioneer in collaborative approaches to agri-environmental schemes and has started implementing ecological network projects since 1994. We thus dug deep and gathered information on where and when these projects were started. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The result is a rich dataset of the current state of ecological network projects in Switzerland that is freely available for researchers and interested people to use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The publication can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S235234092500890X#fig0001\">Data on ecological network projects in Switzerland &#8211; ScienceDirect<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The dataset can be found at Zenodo: <a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/records\/15006755\">Ecological Network Projects in Switzerland | Zenodo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As of the time of writing, we are updating the dataset to include historical developments of these projects for the cantons of Bern and Grisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16.07.2026, by Maximilian Meyer Where and when are ecological network projects established in Switzerland? 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