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

BeeGuards旨在通过提供可持续的管理实践、新颖的育种策略以及数字和预测工具来增强欧洲养蜂业的弹性，使该行业能够适应不断变化的环境。我们专注于确定管理实践、气候变化、营养和资源限制等非生物因素如何驱动威胁蜂群健康和侵蚀欧洲养蜂业恢复力的新兴生物压力源。BeeGuards由多个行动者组成，从一开始就采用了多行动者的方法，这导致了工作方案的开放和包容性设计。作为一个社区，我们将在欧洲范围内进行实地研究，利用配备了技术测量工具的蜂巢，评估和验证基于阈值的创新管理和繁殖策略。补充详细的免疫学，行为学，微生物学，病理学，生态学调查将阐明管理和气候对蜜蜂和其他传粉媒介的作用方式。通过这种方式，BeeGuards将首次对决定养蜂业恢复力的机制提供真正的整体视图，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。我们的开放和参与行动包括开发一个维基beedia社区网站，在那里我们将分享和推广BeeGuards的概念和结果，包括对可持续养蜂实践的探索。最终，“蜜蜂卫士”将为实现弹性养蜂所需要的观点转变指明道路。BeeGuards将减轻养蜂对环境的影响，包括对野生传粉媒介和碳足迹的影响，保护传粉媒介的生物多样性，确保未来提供授粉服务，支持养蜂的经济发展和包容性，为欧洲养蜂业应对气候挑战做好准备。

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.