Project number: 26.23.19.06.15_AGRI4POL

AGRI4POL: Promoting sustainable agriculture for pollinators

AGRI4POL’s ambition is to assist the transition of agriculture from being a pressure on pollinators to becoming a positive force for managing and restoring pollinator biodiversity, crop pollination services, and co-benefits to ecosystems and people. To achieve this transition towards more pollinator friendly farming systems and value chains, AGRI4POL will advance understanding of crop-farming system-pollinator relationships from the crop gene to the agroecosystem. We will identify crop lines suitable for breeding pollinator-smart varieties. We will study how pollinator-crop relationships are modified by the diversity and rotation of crop species and varieties, by ecological infrastructure, and by future climate or land-use change. This will allow to provide recommendations for optimising landscapes for crop pollination, pollinator biodiversity and multiple ecosystem benefits. AGRI4POL research will be supported by multi-actor engagement to assure its relevance and acceptability of management options to farmers and society. This will also enable assessments of socio-economic and policy obstacles and opportunities affecting the feasibility and uptake of pollinator-friendly farming.

Last Name, First Name Location
Albrecht Matthias Reckenholz
Dieker Petra Reckenholz

Süle G., Baldi A., Kleijn D., Steffan-Dewenter I., Albrecht M., Batary P., Biegerl C., Bogusch P., Braunisch V., Buse J., Cappellari A., Eckerter T., Fartmann T., Frank T., Fumy F. and others
Synthesis of pollinator-friendly management in European protected areas.
Conservation Biology, In Press, 2026, Article e70366.

Bachofner C., Knauer A., McLaughlin G., Albrecht M.
Plant-pollinator interactions are directly and indirectly affected by anthropogenic drivers across Europe: How to promote them in grasslands.
In: Safeguard workshop: Bridging science & practice for pollinator-friendly management. 25 February, Brussels (BE). 2026.

Wan N., Li M., Shen S., Zhou S., Zhu Y., Woodcock B., Hu Y. Q., Nakagawa S., Tilman D., Hector A., Albrecht M., Scherber C.
Plant diversity modifies multi-trophic interactions in croplands, grasslands and forests.
Science Advances, 12, (30), 2026, Article eaeb8680.

Durkalec M., Nawrocka A., Jitaru P., Chauzat M.-P., Laurent M., Albrecht M., Costa C., De la Rúa P., Klein A.-M., Mänd M., Potts S. G., Rundlöf M., Schweiger O., Bottero I., Cini E. and others
From flowers to pollinators: Dietary exposure of honey bees, bumble bees and solitary bees to trace elements across European fields.
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 514, 2026, Article 142644.

Gekière A., Tourbez C., Vanderplanck M., Kiljanek T., Ghisbain G., Kardas E., Bottero I., Chauzat M.-P., Cini E., Corvucci F., de Miranda J. R., Di Prisco G., Dominik C., Grillenzoni F. V., Hodge S. and others
Nutritional composition of pollen stores in managed bees across European agro-ecosystems reveals species-specific differences but limited pesticide effects.
Ecological Entomology, In Press, 2026.

Chacko M. R., Frey D. J., Albrecht M., Ghazoul J., Moretti M.
No one-size- fits-all: Trait-dependent effects of local plant diversity on pollinators and pollination service in a densifying city.
Journal of Applied Ecology, 63, (5), 2026, Article e70384.

Heuschle J. M., Schweiger O., Albrecht M., Filipe-Lucia M. R., Honchar H., Liu Y., Musche M., Paxton R. J., Settele J., Szentgyörgyi H., Vanbergen A. J., Wubet T., Dominik C.
Seasonal mass-flowering events dominate landscape effects on plant–pollinator network structure.
Journal of Applied Ecology, 63, (4), 2026, Article e70377.

Bishop G., Kleijn D., Albrecht M., Baldi A., Bartomeus I., Potts S., Wallis de Vries M., Scheper J., Herrera J., Fijen T.
Reversing pollinator decline requires expanding natural habitats in agricultural landscapes.
Showcase. 2026, 1 p.

Proesmans W., Alaux C., Albrecht M., Bassit K., Nathan C., Dalmon A., Dievart V., Dominik C., Felten E., Gajda A., Heuschele J., Laurent E., Bachofner C., Neumann P., Pioz M. and others
Drivers of viral prevalence in landscape-scale pollinator networks across Europe: Honey bee viral density, niche overlap with this reservoir host and network architecture.
Ecology Letters, 293, (1), 2026, Article e70309.

Prospero S., Schwarz J., Ježić M., Leigh D., Ćurković-Perica M., Idžojtić M., Katanic Z., Krstin L., Nuskern L., Pavičić I., Poljak I., Sotirovski K., Risteski M., Vuković R., Rigling D.
Testing the efficiency of natural hypovirulence for biological control of chestnut blight under field conditions.
IMA Fungus, 17, 2026, Article e173675.

Bachofner C., Yañez O., Schauer A., Neumann P., Vanbergen A.J., Schweiger O., Paxton Robert J., Szentgyörgyi H., Pellissier L., Albrecht M.
Resident viruses, but not honeybee-associated viruses, impair solitary bee fitness in the field.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 293, (2062), 2026, Article 20251940.