Resilient beekeeping and breeding to safeguard natural genetic resources and pollination services (BeeGuards)

弹性养蜂和育种，​​以保护自然遗传资源和授粉服务 (BeeGuards)

• 批准号: 10082100
• 金额: $ 54.4万
• 依托单位: NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10082100
• 关键词: Resilient; beekeeping; breeding; safeguard; natural

BeeGuards aims to strengthen the resilience of the European beekeeping sector by providing sustainable management practices, novel breeding strategies and digital and forecasting tools that allow the sector to adapt to a changing environment. We focus on determining how abiotic factors such as management practices, climate change, nutrition and resource limitations drive emerging biotic stressors that threaten colony health and erode the resilience of European beekeeping. BeeGuards comprises multiple actors and adopts a multiactor approach from inception which has led to an open and inclusive design of the work programme. As a community, we will perform European-wide field studies evaluating and validating innovative threshold-based management and breeding strategies for resilience, using hives equipped with technological measurement tools. Complementary detailed immunological, behavioural, microbiological, pathological, ecological investigations will elucidate the ways in which management and climate act on honey bees and other pollinators. In this way, BeeGuards will, for the first time, provide a truly holistic view of the mechanisms determining beekeeping resilience and implement nature-based, local solutions for adaption, including model-based advisory tools for stakeholders. Our open and participatory actions include development of a WikiBEEdia community website where we will share and promote the BeeGuards concepts and results, including a Quest for sustainable beekeeping practices. Ultimately, BeeGuards will show the way for a change of perspective that is needed to achieve resilient beekeeping. BeeGuards will mitigate the environmental impact of beekeeping in terms of impact on wild pollinators and of carbon footprint, protect pollinator biodiversity, ensure the future provision of pollination services and support the economic development and inclusiveness of beekeeping, preparing the European apicultural sector to meet the climate challenge.

BeeGuards旨在通过提供可持续的管理做法、新颖的饲养战略以及数字和预测工具，使该行业能够适应不断变化的环境，从而加强欧洲养蜂业的弹性。我们的重点是确定管理实践、气候变化、营养和资源限制等非生物因素如何驱动威胁群体健康并侵蚀欧洲养蜂业弹性的新兴生物应激源。BeeGuard由多个行为者组成，并从一开始就采取多行为者做法，从而导致工作方案的开放和包容各方的设计。作为一个社区，我们将进行全欧洲范围的实地研究，评估和验证创新的基于门槛的管理和繁殖策略，以提高复原力，使用配备技术测量工具的蜂箱。补充详细的免疫学、行为学、微生物学、病理学和生态学调查将阐明管理和气候对蜜蜂和其他传粉者的作用方式。通过这种方式，BeeGuard将首次提供决定养蜂弹性的机制的真正整体视图，并实施基于自然的本地适应解决方案，包括为利益相关者提供基于模型的咨询工具。我们的开放和参与性行动包括开发一个WikiBEEdia社区网站，在那里我们将分享和推广BeeGuard的概念和成果，包括探索可持续的养蜂实践。最终，BeeGuard将为改变观点指明道路，这是实现弹性养蜂所必需的。BeeGuard将减轻养蜂对野生传粉者的影响和碳足迹方面的环境影响，保护传粉者的生物多样性，确保未来提供授粉服务，并支持经济发展和养蜂的包容性，使欧洲养蜂业做好应对气候挑战的准备。