WildPosh

Pan-European assessment, monitoring and mitigation

of chemical stressors on the health of wild pollinators

WP 1: A monitoring scheme to determine sources and routes

of pesticide exposure in environmental compartments/matrices

WP 2: Effects of exposure to single pesticides single exposure and their mixture

on wild pollinators as novel models in laboratory and semi-field experiments

Team:

Prof. Dr. Alexandra-Maria Klein

Dr. Julia Osterman University of Gothenburg (Sweden)

Projectpartner:

Prof. Denis Michez (Project Coordinator; University of Mons, Belgium)

Dr. Sara Reverté Saiz (Project Manager; University of Mons, Belgium)

Duration: 01 2024 - 12 2027

Funding: EU

Wild fauna and flora are facing variable and challenging environmental disturbances. One of the animal groups that is most impacted by these disturbances are 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 the risk to wild pollinators of pesticide exposure, and enhance the sustainable health of pollinators and pollination services in Europe.