Abstract
Bees and other insect pollinators, including wild bees, hoverflies, beetles, butterflies and moths, have been declining worldwide. In Europe, several initiatives have been adopted at European and national level to halt this trend, however, we still miss a reliable method to assess their efficacy. In this project we aim to develop and validate an integrated protocol to verify if the mitigation measures foreseen by the EU Green Deal are effective in halting and reversing the decline of wild pollinator. This monitoring protocol will integrate endpoints in terms of wild pollinator diversity with other endpoints able to assess the state of health at the sub-individual, individual and population level. These endpoints are selected and designed to diagnose biological alterations in wild pollinators due to different anthropogenic pressures. Using a set of biomarkers integrated with data from the monitoring activity we expect to obtain innovative results, covering several gaps on wild pollinator biodiversity, their health status and on the monitoring of the effectiveness of mitigation actions designed to halt and reverse biodiversity decline.
Project details
Unibo Team Leader: Fabio Sgolastra
Unibo involved Department/s:
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari
Coordinator:
Università di Siena(Italy)
Total Unibo Contribution: Euro (EUR) 100.980,00
Project Duration in months: 24
Start Date:
30/11/2023
End Date:
28/02/2026
