Assessing the effectiveness of mitigation measures on pollinator decline: an integrated multi-biomarker approach (ÆM-POLLY)

PRIN – PNRR 2022 project, Mission 4 “Educazione e Ricerca”, Component C2, Investment 1.1 “Fondo per il Programma Nazionale di Ricerca e Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)”, funded by European Union – NextGenerationEU and Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca, under the National Plan for Recovery and Resilience (PNRR). Notice PRIN 2022 PNRR issued with D.D. n. 1409 of 14 September 2022 - Project code: P2022YWSSX.

The ÆM-POLLY project aims to develop and validate an integrated protocol as a tool to verify if the mitigation measures foreseen by the EU Green Deal for agricultural practices, are effective in halting and reversing the decline of wild pollinator biodiversity. This monitoring protocol will integrate endpoints in terms of presence, abundance and diversity of wild pollinator species with endpoints able to assess the health status at the sub-individual, individual and population level. These endpoints are selected and designed to diagnose biological alterations in wild pollinators due to different pressures: chemical stress from pesticides, stress linked to climate changes, food and water deficiencies, habitat loss and diseases.