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The aim is to understand how land-use-induced changes in the diversity and composition of flowering plants affect the interactions between plants and bees. Data will be collected on the following parameters:

  • Diversity and abundance of wild bee species throughout the year
  • Nutritional and health status of collected bee species in relation to the LUI
  • Bee-flower interaction networks
  • Chemical composition of pollen of bee-visited bee plant species

More information about this project can be found here: https://nutrib2.project.uj.edu.pl/

Picture: The photo shows a clipboard lying on the grass of an unmown meadow in the sunshine. Documents are attached to the clipboard. A pen and a sealed centrifuge tube are on the form above. In the background of the picture, a fenced climate measuring station, individual tall shrubs and, on the horizon, meadows and forests can be seen under a blue sky with clouds.
Climate station
Picture: The photo shows the good-humoured scientists of the project team jumping around in a meadow with insect catching quivers in their hands.
NutriB2 Field Team

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Land-use intensity effects on intraspecific variation of pollination-associated floral traits in four typical grassland species
Auswirkungen der Landnutzungsintensität auf die intraspezifische Variation von bestäubungsassoziierten Blütenmerkmalen bei vier typischen Grünlandarten
Höwener A. S. (2022): Land-use intensity effects on intraspecific variation of pollination-associated floral traits in four typical grassland species. Master thesis, TU München
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Parreño M.A., Alaux C., Brunet J.-L., Buydens L., Filipiak M., Henry M., Keller A., Klein A.-M., Kuhlmann M., Leroy C., Meeus I., Palmer-Young E., Piot N., Requier F., Ruedenauer F., Smagghe G., Stevenson P. C., Leonhardt S. D. (2022): Critical links between biodiversity and health in wild bee conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 37 (4), 309-321. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.013.
More information:  doi.org

Cooperations are projects financed by the cooperation partners’ own funds and thus financially independent of the DFG-funded infrastructure priority program ‟Biodiversity Exploratories (BE)”. They complement the BE with further interesting research content on biodiversity research and in return benefit from the infrastructure of the Biodiversity Exploratories.

Scientific assistants

Prof. Dr. Sara Leonhardt
Project manager
Prof. Dr. Sara Leonhardt
Technische Universität München (TUM)
Prof. Dr. Alexander Keller
Project manager
Prof. Dr. Alexander Keller
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität - LMU München
Dr. Maria Alejandra Parreno
Employee
Dr. Maria Alejandra Parreno
Technische Universität München (TUM)
Susanne Butschkau
Employee
Susanne Butschkau
Technische Universität München (TUM)
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