EUCLIPO project
Effect of EUtrophication and CLimate on POllinators and ecosystem service provision (EUCLIPO)
2018-2021 (extended to July 2022)
This project gathers an interdisciplinary international team that will investigate how eutrophication compromises pollinator foraging patterns and their efficiency as crop pollinators, taking into account regional climatic and landscape characteristics. The results of this project will help to understand and predict interactive effects between climate, land-use change and eutrophication on ecosystem functioning and services, which can help guide management plans and policies that aim to improve agricultural production through ecological intensification.
The project is organized in four work packages:
WP1 aims to understand how different sources of eutrophication affect the foraging pattern of pollinators, under different climatic conditions
WP2 aims to understand if eutrophication effects on flower visitation are mediated by changes in quantity and quality of floral resources
WP3 aims to evaluate if species with higher gene flow are more resilient to changes in local flower resource availability and quality induced by eutrophication
WP4 aims to evaluate how eutrophication affects crop pollinator deficit and the provision of pollination services
The project is funded by FCT and European Union via the Lisbon Regional Operational Program 2014/2020 (Lisboa2020).
