STEP
Status and Trends of European Pollinators
| Coordinatore | THE UNIVERSITY OF READING
Organization address
address: WHITEKNIGHTS CAMPUS WHITEKNIGHTS HOUSE contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 4˙787˙289 € |
| EC contributo | 3˙499˙994 € |
| Programma | FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) |
| Code Call | FP7-ENV-2009-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-FP |
| Anno di inizio | 2010 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2010-02-01 - 2015-01-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF READING
Organization address
address: WHITEKNIGHTS CAMPUS WHITEKNIGHTS HOUSE contact info |
UK (READING) | coordinator | 392˙954.00 |
| 2 |
HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUER UMWELTFORSCHUNG GMBH - UFZ
Organization address
address: Permoser Strasse 15 contact info |
DE (LEIPZIG) | participant | 333˙003.00 |
| 3 |
JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITAET WUERZBURG
Organization address
address: SANDERRING 2 contact info |
DE (WUERZBURG) | participant | 332˙477.00 |
| 4 |
EIDGENOESSISCHES DEPARTEMENT FUER WIRTSCHAFT, BILDUNG UND FORSCHUNG
Organization address
address: Bundeshaus Ost contact info |
CH (BERN) | participant | 300˙000.00 |
| 5 |
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
Organization address
address: WOODHOUSE LANE contact info |
UK (LEEDS) | participant | 287˙281.00 |
| 6 |
AARHUS UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: Nordre Ringgade 1 contact info |
DK (AARHUS C) | participant | 244˙819.50 |
| 7 |
SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: ARRHENIUSPLAN 4 contact info |
SE (UPPSALA) | participant | 230˙040.00 |
| 8 |
STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK
Organization address
address: Costerweg 50 contact info |
NL (WAGENINGEN) | participant | 229˙964.00 |
| 9 |
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE
Organization address
address: Rue De L'Universite 147 contact info |
FR (PARIS CEDEX 07) | participant | 200˙000.00 |
| 10 |
LUNDS UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: Paradisgatan 5c contact info |
SE (LUND) | participant | 140˙336.00 |
| 11 |
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Organization address
address: CALLE SERRANO 117 contact info |
ES (MADRID) | participant | 121˙508.00 |
| 12 |
Pensoft Publishers Ltd
Organization address
address: UL. GEO MILEV 13a contact info |
BG (Sofia) | participant | 116˙000.00 |
| 13 |
UNIVERSITAET BERN
Organization address
address: Hochschulstrasse 4 contact info |
CH (BERN) | participant | 102˙000.00 |
| 14 |
TARTU ULIKOOL
Organization address
address: ULIKOOLI 18 contact info |
EE (TARTU) | participant | 100˙800.00 |
| 15 |
UNIVERSITE DE MONS
Organization address
address: PLACE DU PARC 20 contact info |
BE (MONS) | participant | 87˙744.00 |
| 16 |
SUOMEN YMPARISTOKESKUS
Organization address
address: Mechelininkatu 34a contact info |
FI (HELSINKI) | participant | 80˙000.00 |
| 17 |
University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences
Organization address
address: Trg Dositeja Obradovica 3 contact info |
RS (Novi Sad) | participant | 51˙180.00 |
| 18 |
UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI
Organization address
address: Ul. Golebia 24 contact info |
PL (KRAKOW) | participant | 50˙000.00 |
| 19 |
UNIVERSITA DI PISA
Organization address
address: Lungarno Pacinotti 43/44 contact info |
IT (PISA) | participant | 40˙000.00 |
| 20 |
UNIVERSITAET BAYREUTH
Organization address
address: Universitaetsstrasse 30 contact info |
DE (BAYREUTH) | participant | 20˙323.00 |
| 21 |
PANEPISTIMIO AIGAIOU
Organization address
address: LOFOS PANEPISTIMIOU contact info |
EL (MYTILINI) | participant | 20˙040.00 |
| 22 |
STICHTING NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER
Organization address
address: DARWINWEG 2 contact info |
NL (LEIDEN) | participant | 19˙525.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Pollinators form a key component of European biodiversity, and provide vital ecosystem services to crops and wild plants. There is growing evidence of declines in both wild and domesticated pollinators, and parallel declines in plants relying upon them. STEP will document the nature and extent of these declines, examine functional traits associated with particular risk, develop a Red List of some European pollinator groups, in particular bees and lay the groundwork for future pollinator monitoring programmes. We will also assess the relative importance of potential drivers of such change, including climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation, agrichemicals, pathogens, alien species, light pollution, and their interactions. We will measure the ecological and economic impacts of declining pollinator services and floral resources, including effects on wild plant populations, crop production and human nutrition. STEP will review existing and potential mitigation options, providing novel tests of their effectiveness across Europe. Our work will build upon existing datasets and models, complemented by spatially-replicated campaigns of field research to fill gaps in current knowledge. We will integrate our findings in a policy-relevant framework, creating Evidence-based Decision Support tools. We will also establish communication links to a wide range of stakeholders across Europe and beyond, including policy makers, beekeepers, farmers, academics and the general public. Taken together, our research programme will make great steps towards improving our understanding of the nature, causes, consequences and potential mitigation of declines in pollinator services at local, national, continental and global scales.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
A recent EU-funded project has investigated the causes and consequences of pollinator losses, with a special focus on bees and hoverflies.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Pollination is one of the most important ecosystem services because it influences food production as well as overall ecosystem health. There is mounting evidence for declines in pollinators and the wild flowers they forage on plants, which is of concern for conservationists in the EU.
The 'Status and trends of European pollinators' (http://www.step-project.net (STEP)) project was set up to document the nature and extent of pollinator population changes . It also examined the relative importance of potential drivers of such change and the impacts this can have on society.
Researchers assessed the changes in wild pollinator and wild flowering plant diversity in Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. They found that diversity loss had slowed for some groups of pollinators since the 1990s.
Significant progress was also made in understanding the contributions of different pollinating taxa. Scientists found that wild pollinators, and not honeybees, are generally the main pollinators of crops at the national, European and global scales.
Further, they investigated the potential effects of multiple pressures on pollinators at three different spatial scales: continental, landscape and local. STEP found that climate was the best predictor of species distribution, rather than pesticides or land use.
STEP reviewed current and future mitigation options to provide novel tests of their effectiveness across Europe. This work also lays the foundation for future pollinator monitoring programmes.
A conceptual framework to evaluate mitigation measures has been developed and suggests that the effectiveness of interventions to moderate pollinator loss depends on the land-use intensity of the farming system, the complexity of the landscape, and the ecological contrast created by the strategies used.
STEP's ongoing research will help improve our understanding of the nature, causes, consequences and potential mitigation of declines in pollination services. The results will drive direct policy and management interventions to help reduce these pressures.