Fireflies
Fireflies investigates how biodiversity can be restored in European agricultural landscapes while supporting viable farming systems.
Projects
Our projects connect changes in landscapes and ecological communities with responses at the level of individual organisms and molecular processes, to understand how biodiversity responds to management and environmental pressures.
Fireflies investigates how biodiversity can be restored in European agricultural landscapes while supporting viable farming systems.
BaARF follows the transition of three orchards to agroforestry systems to understand how insect communities, ecological interactions and soil microbial diversity change over time.
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YGIAMEL investigates bee health across different Greek landscapes and explores how environmental conditions influence colonies, foraging and honey production.
BeeConnected combines multi-sensor tracking and computerised modelling to monitor honey bee colonies in real time, identifying early-warning signals to prevent winter colony decline.
SPOHD investigates how hive transhumance influences the spread of bee diseases and colony health during seasonal honey production.
HoneyRoad investigates how honey bees recover after exposure to acaricides and whether some biological effects persist over time.
MEELiH investigates how honey bees respond to sublethal pesticide exposure, from behavioural changes to underlying molecular mechanisms.
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COLOSS monitors honey bee colony losses across Europe through standardised surveys based on observations reported by beekeepers.
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