Dr. Christophe Dominik

Drivers of viral prevalence in landscape-scale pollinator networks across Europe: honey bee viral density, niche overlap with this reservoir host and network architecture

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Flower-rich and diverse road verges support pollinators, but traffic speed limits the ecological benefits across Europe

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

From flowers to pollinators: Dietary exposure of honey bees, bumble bees and solitary bees to trace elements across European fields

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Nutritional composition of pollen stores in managed bees across European agro-ecosystems reveals species-specific differences but limited pesticide effects

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Seasonal mass-flowering events dominate landscape effects on plant–pollinator network structure

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Trait-based specific protection goals for wild pollinators: a staged modelling framework for pesticide risk assessment

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Agri4Pol

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Description

AGRI4POL’s ambition is to assist the transition of agriculture from being a pressure on pollinators to becoming a positive force for managing and restoring pollinator biodiversity, crop pollination services, and co-benefits to ecosystems and people.

Funding

Horizon Europe

Principal Investigators

Adam J. Vanbergen

EuPPollNet: a European database of plant-pollinator networks

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Variation in the pollen diet of managed bee species across European agroecosystems

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

ANTENNA

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Description

In the light of ongoing pollinator declines and their exceptional relevance for human food security, economy, and the functioning of ecosystems, the EU Pollinators Initiative (revised in 2023) has defined ‘establishing a comprehensive monitoring system’ as its first action. A European-wide Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (EU PoMS) is currently piloted (SPRING project), which will represent a stronghold of transnational pollinator monitoring, though several major gaps remain. Modern technologies, such as robotics, computer vision, and molecular methods, can complement such approaches to help overcome key monitoring gaps by increasing taxonomic and geographic coverage, speed, accuracy, content and efficiency of identification, and temporal resolution. However, technology readiness differs among available tools and further research is needed to design, advance and adapt technology towards integrated transnational pollinator monitoring – together with context-specific guidance on how to best combine approaches based on their synergistic value and cost- efficiency. Also, integrated information from different monitoring approaches (‘traditional’ and novel) need to inform near real-time early warning systems to allow for adaptive monitoring, conservation, and restoration interventions.

The overarching goal of ANTENNA is to fill key monitoring gaps through advancing innovative technologies that will underpin and complement EU-wide pollinator monitoring schemes, and to provide tested transnational pipelines from monitoring activities to curated datasets and enhanced indicators that support pollinator-relevant policy and end-users.

Funding

BiodivERsA
February 2024 to February 2027

Principal Investigators

Oliver Schweiger

A blood test to monitor bee health across a European network of agricultural sites of different land-use by MALDI BeeTyping mass spectrometry