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PAN EUROPEAN ASSESSMENT, MONITORING, AND MITIGATION OF CHEMICAL STRESSORS ON THE HEALTH OF WILD POLLINATORS

Projektbeschreibung

Bessere Bewertung des Risikos für Wildbestäuber durch Pestizidexposition

Die natürliche Pflanzen- und Tierwelt, insbesondere Bestäuber, werden stark durch Umweltbelastungen bedroht. Insbesondere anthropogene chemische Stoffe wie Pestizide sind eine große Gefahr. Daher sollen im EU-finanzierten Projekt WildPosh Grenzen und Disziplinen durchbrochen werden. Das Projektteam arbeitet in England, Estland, Deutschland und Spanien, um die reale Belastung durch Agrochemikalien mittels Feldarbeit und kontrollierten Experimenten zu verschiedenen Bestäuberarten zu untersuchen. So werden In-silico-Datenerhebungen zum Beispiel mit kontrollierten Experimenten zu Bienen, Schwebfliegen, Motten und Schmetterlingen ergänzt. Über das Projekt sollen eine offene Datenbank aufgebaut, Werkzeuge zur Risikobewertung vorgestellt und die Politik durch Innovation gestaltet werden. Das WildPosh-Team könnte den Ansatz zur Gesundheit der Bestäuber neu definieren.

Ziel

Wild fauna and flora are facing variable and challenging environmental disturbances. One of the animal groups that is most impacted by this, concerns pollinators. Pollinators face multiple threats, but the spread of anthropogenic chemicals (i.e. pesticides) form a major potential driver of these threats. WildPosh is a multi-actor, transdisciplinary project whose overarching mission and ambition are to significantly improve the evaluation of risk to pesticide exposure of wild pollinators, and enhance the sustainable health of pollinators and pollination services in Europe. As chemical exposure varies geographically, across cropping systems, inside the crop system and among pollinators, we will characterise exposure by doing fieldwork in 4 countries representing the four main climatic European regions, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Continental and Boreal climate in Germany, England, Estonia and Spain. We will also develop experiments in controlled conditions on different species of bees, syrphid flies, moths and butterflies, and collect in silico data on their traits and on toxicity of pesticides. With WildPosh, we aim to achieve the following objectives:

1. Determining the real-world agrochemical exposure profile of wild pollinators at landscape level, within and among sites;
2. Using integrated and controlled laboratory and semi-field experiments to characterise causal relationships between pesticides and pollinator health;
3. Building an open database on pollinator traits/distribution and chemicals to define exposure and toxicity scenarios by developing databases on ecological traits and the spatial distribution of pollinators in relation to their potential exposure to pesticide;
4. Proposing integrated systems-based risk assessment tools for risk assessment for wild pollinators; and
5. Driving policy and practice through interactive innovation, meeting the need for monitoring tools, novel and innovative screening protocols for practice and policymaker use.

Koordinator

UNIVERSITE DE MONS
Netto-EU-Beitrag
€ 824 388,75
Adresse
PLACE DU PARC 20
7000 Mons
Belgien

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Region
Région wallonne Prov. Hainaut Arr. Mons
Aktivitätstyp
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Gesamtkosten
€ 824 388,75

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