Assessment of Pollination Provisioning in agricultural Landscapes and the roles of Environment and Climate on Resilience
Informations
- Funding country
Norway- Acronym
- -
- URL
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- Start date
- 1/1/2021
- End date
- 12/31/2025
- Budget
- 1,131,600 EUR
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FFL-JA - Research on agriculture and food industry | Grant | - | - | 1,131,600 EUR |
Abstract
APPLECORe aims to understand better the value of bee diversity in fruit production in Norway that can help inform decisions about the management of wild bee habitats in fruit production landscapes. In this way, APPLECORe will contribute both to achieve the goals set in the Norwegian Wild Pollinator Strategy and those of the Norwegian fruit production industry. The APPLECORe project represents a partnership of international researchers, representatives from the Norwegian horticultural industry, and public agencies that will collectivity develop a research agenda built around three central research themes: 1. The first research theme is about ascertaining the relative pollination capabilities for wild and managed insect pollinator species for pome fruit production. Under this theme the project will explore the composition of pollinator assemblages, the floral resources that they use, and their relative performance as pollinators in early flowering fruit crops. 2. The second theme presents the application of novel molecular methods to infer pollen-mediated gene flow in the landscape and its role in improving fruit yield and quality. The method will also enable us identify landscape features and pollinator habitat management practices that can facilitate or hinder geneflow. 3. The third theme integrates data collected in the first two themes with existing data in biodiversity databases (such as Artskart at the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre) to investigate the role of climate in regulating pollinator assemblages and make predictions for how changes in these pollinator assemblages resulting from climate change will effect pollination provisioning and fruit yields. The project will then use this information to produce national-level predictions of pollination provisioning and produce maps of risk of poor pollination services as a result of climate change.