RestPoll: Restoring Pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes

Meet Lynn Dicks from the University of Cambridge (UCAM), who has a strong interest in the effectiveness of conservation actions for wild pollinators. She runs a research group with a focus on how to conserve wild bees, particularly in agricultural landscapes. Lynn explains: “I see a clear need to scale up both conservation actions and our measures of how effective they are to landscape scale.” #facesbehindrestpoll #facesbehind #meettheresearcher #restpoll #pollinatorresearch #pollinators #cambridgeuniversity #wildbees

On 19 September, the Department of Ecology and Biomonitoring held a presentation meeting on the results of research for the RestPoll project in collaboration with Institute of Horticulture of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine (IH NAAS). The main goal of the event was to unite the efforts of farmers, beekeepers, managers and scientists to restore and preserve habitats of wild pollinators. One of the key tools for supporting wild pollinator populations is the creation of ‘insect hotels’ - specially equipped places where insects can find shelter and breeding conditions. The meeting participants took part in a workshop on creating such a house. Are you curious what else was discussed? Check it out on their website (UKR): https://lnkd.in/eBBHds6y #restpoll #biodiversity #research #pollinators #livinglab #insecthotels #ukraine #nationalacademyofsciencesukraine

Maria von Post is part of the RestPoll project, representing Lund University (ULUND). She’s responsible for planning and preparing fieldwork, managing stakeholder communications and evaluating the effects of habitat restoration on biodiversity. “Evaluating effects from restoration interventions, together with the land users and conservationists that implement them, is a very valuable learning experience for all participants which truly inspired me as an ecologist to join the project”, Maria says. #facesbehindrestpoll #facesbehind #meettheresearcher #lunduniversity #restpoll #pollinatorresearch #pollinators #lunduniversity

Tibo Costaz gives us an insight into the challenges of field work going on in Switzerland. “The required design of the study with the various type of sites for RestPoll and the minimum number of sites to measure took some time to set up. The case study area is characterised by orchards (apple, pear, cherries and apricots). Although 5 sites per site type was required, too few sites were measured this year for one of the site types. This issue was due to difficulties in finding the contact details of owners as well as obtaining permission to perform measures in their fields. However, this problem will be solved for the next field work season. In addition, recording flying pollinators is a challenge, since it is difficult to capture them as they cross the study area. Similarly, resting pollinators that are hidden in the plant foliage are difficult to spot. I therefore concentrated mainly on foraging pollinators, although I recorded resting and flying pollinators as much as possible.” #restpoll #biodiversity #research #pollinators #fieldwork #challenges #datacollection #switzerland

Das Interview für die Sendung "Können wir die Bestäuber ersetzen?" von arte 42 wurde während meines Forschungssemesters in den Gewächshäusern des Botanischen Gartens der Lund University gedreht 💚 In dem Beitrag geht es unter anderem um Pflanzen-Insekten-Interaktionen, die Bestäubungsleistung von #Wildbienen, Handbestäubung und die Auswirkungen von #Pestiziden und dem #Klimawandel auf #Bestäuber 🐝 🌻 University of Freiburg, Fakultät für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen https://lnkd.in/dTz5PX25

As a Pan-European transdisciplinary project, RestPoll benefits from the different perspectives of researchers from varying disciplines, partners from industry and local governmental leaders. The researchers are agriculturalists and biologists, ecologists and economists, geographers and social scientists. Each of the disciplines has its own motivation for contributing to the preservation and restoration of our precious ecosystems. Let’s learn more about what motivates the RestPoll researchers and partners to do their bit for nature. Check out the article: https://lnkd.in/e8UHK7aY #restpoll #biodiversity #research #pollinators #government #agriculture

In each episode of Even that? – the friendly crisis podcast, ZEIT political editor Petra Pinzler and science editor Stefan Schmitt speak with an expert about a current crisis: the climate crisis, species extinction, the energy crisis and wars. In this episode, ecologist and RestPoll coordinator Alexandra-Maria Klein from the University of Freiburg talks about bees, flower strips, pesticides, insect hotels and whether organic farming is the solution. The podcast is in German, so if you can speak the language, be sure to listen! https://lnkd.in/eYkJD3_g #restpoll #biodiversity #research #pollinators #podcast #crisis #ecologist #ecology #zeitpodcast #eventhat

In trying to preserve our pollinators, the RestPoll researchers are always eager to share their many successes. However, life is not always a rosy affair; for insects or for humans. In a project as large as RestPoll, there are bound to be obstacles on the way. Read on our website about some of the challenges involved in working on the world’s biodiversity: https://lnkd.in/eSxHzNm6 #didyouknowthat #DYK #didyouknow #biodiversity #challenges #pollinators #bees #restpoll #restorepollinators #bumblebees #collaborations

Researchers in the People and Nature group from Trinity College Dublin’s Department of Botany in the School of Natural Sciences recently delivered the first Irish RestPoll: Restoring Pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes stakeholder workshop. The team is working in tandem with farmers, land managers and other groups to deliver win-win solutions that support pollinator-friendly and biodiversity-positive actions in agricultural landscapes. Prof. Jane Stout and Dr Sarah Larragy are working with a range of stakeholders on this project, including individuals from Teagasc, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the National Biodiversity Data Centre and BiOrbic, Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre. Read all about the first Irish workshop for RestPoll stakeholders at Trinity College Dublin: https://lnkd.in/evTn5kPF Repost from Trinity College Dublin #trinitycollege #dublin #workshop #restpoll #stakeholders #farmers #biodiversity #research #pollinators

Read all about the first Irish RestPoll stakeholder workshop of Trinity College Dublin! 👇 🐝