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Time: 2021-03-16 13:00
City: Zoom
City: Zoom
16
Mar
Zoom
Bees, flowers and pesticides – managing agricultural landscapes for biodiversity and crop production
seminars, workshops |
" Our work has implications for the management of insect pollinated crops, where integrated pest and pollinator management (IPPM) provide opportunity to consider pollination needs and pollinator health when selecting pest management strategies, as well as for environmental risk assessment and monitoring of pesticides." Seminar by Maj Rundlöf, department of biology, Lund university.
Agricultural landscapes consist of a mosaic of habitats fulfilling the need of the organisms inhabiting them as well as proving challenges. For bees, such a need is availability of flower resource and a challenge is pesticide exposure and sometimes the two coincide.
When pesticides are used to protect crops and reduce pest damage, they can also expose and affect non-target organisms such as bees that visit treated crops or other areas impacted by pesticides.
"In a number of projects, we quantify pesticide exposure to bees and the resulting effects on their health and pollination services as well as evaluate actions that can mitigate both exposure and effects. We combine empirical lab, semi-field and landscape scale field experiments and individual based and spatial modelling to extend from single compounds and individuals to cocktails and communities" says Maj Rundlöf.
All are most welcome to attend via Zoom:
https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/63278512007
Meeting ID: 632 7851 2007
Passcode: 290985