BeeGuards
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The BeeGuards project aims to provide the European beekeeping sector with sustainable management practices, novel breeding strategies and forecasting tools that allow the sector to adapt to a changing environment.
We focus on how abiotic factors drive biotic stressors that threaten colony health in European beekeeping. Abiotic factors are for example management practices, climate change, nutrition and resource limitations.
BeeGuards adopts a multi-actor approach. This has led to an open and inclusive design of the work program. As a community, we will perform European-wide field studies evaluating and validating innovative management and breeding strategies for resilience, using hives equipped with technological measurement tools.
We will make detailed immunological, behavioral, microbiological, pathological, and ecological investigations. Thereby, we can clarify how honey bees and other pollinators are influenced by both management and climate.
Full name of the project: Resilient beekeeping and breeding to safeguard natural genetic resources and pollination services.