Publisher : Biodiversity Journal
Place of publication :
Publication year : 2014
Thematic : Species
Language : English
Note
“Biodiversity Friend†is a standard certification developed in 2010 by World Biodiversity
Association to evaluate the biodiversity and promote its conservation in agriculture. The
procedure to obtain the certification considers the environmental impacts of the agricultural
activities on the agrosystem and the biodiversity and suggests operational strategies to
improve the environmental quality of the agriculture areas. The evaluation is referred to 12
actions related to low-impact methods of pest and weed control, reconstitution of soil fertility,
rational management of water resources, diffusion of hedges, woodlands and nectariferous
plants, conservation of agricultural biodiversity, soil, air and freshwater quality through Biodiversity
Indices, use of renewable sources for energy supply, lower CO2 production and
CO2 storage and other actions that may have beneficial effects on biodiversity.
The environmental conditions of the agrosystem are evaluated by biomonitoring of air, water
and soil. The biodiversity of soil and aquatic macroinvertebrates and the biodiversity of epiphytic
lichen communities decrease very quickly when the soil, water and air conditions are
altered by different causes such as pollution, synthetic and organic pesticides, bad land use
practices, etc. The protocol of the three indices of the standard certification “Biodiversity
Friendâ€: Lichen Biodiversity Index (LBI-bf), Freshwater Biodiversity Index (FBI-bf), and
Soil Biodiversity Index (SBI-bf) are here presented in detail.
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Keywords : Biodiversity
Encoded by : Pauline Carmel Joy Eje