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Internal reference number : ARC 22/27.121

Star date : 01/10/22      End date : 30/09/2027

Pollination is a major regulating service to sustain plant biodiversity and food production.
The multidisciplinary NUTRIBEE project focuses on the nutritional quality of harvested pollen and nectar and its impact on the successful wild bee population development.

1. Map the quantities of available pollen and nectar along the seasons by combining field campaign with remote sensing image analysis of drone, aerial and satellite data.
2. Determine the quality of pollen and nectar resources of the key flower species from each landscape based on chemical analysis and literature review of trait data.
3. Assess the combined impact of soil pollution (pesticides and fertilizers) and floral resource availability (in space and time) on the health and survival of wild bees’ colonies.
4. Model soil-plant-insect interaction using agent-based model to identify the management priorities to sustain wild bee population in different landscapes and hence contribute to the restoration of the farmland ecosystems.
5. Train and apply deep learning model in order to upscale spatially explicit models of wild bees’ colonies.