I am delighted that our new book “Praxishandbuch Nutzpflanzenbestäubung” can already be pre-ordered. The book will be published on April 14, 2025 and is about promoting pollinators in agricultural landscapes. The book contains crop and bee profiles and gives suggestions for concrete measures to support pollinators and thereby increase pollination services. The key message of…
Category: Pollinators
Talk at the SPD Umweltforum
As part of the SPD Umweltforum, I will give a lecture on the topic ‘Insektensterben – Ist der Abwärtstrend gestoppt?’. When: 01 October 2024, 19:00 hrs Where: Goethe-Institut Freiburg, Wilhelmstr. 17, 79098 Freiburg Participation also possible via live stream: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89845992394?pwd=jhP3f2hASOdGQMTMoZD9ezfgcbGY72.1 Meeting-ID: 898 4599 2394Kenncode: 520462 I look forward to seeing you there.
ZEIT podcast “Auch das noch?” on pollinators in agricultural landscapes
In the latest episode of the ZEIT podcast “Auch das noch?” I talk about my career path, research on plant-pollinator interactions, measures for biodiversity restauration in agricultural landscapes, our Horizon Europe project RestPoll and my involvement in the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services). These are a few important take-home messages from…
RestPoll kick-off meeting
28-29 November 2023, Grand Hotel, Lund, Sweden Our new EU Horizon project RestPoll (Restoring pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches) was launched in October 2023. I really enjoyed meeting the RestPoll members in person at the kick-off meeting in Lund, Sweden, and discussing our next steps in the project. The…
21.06.23 | Online seminar “Die Artenvielfalt der Wildbienen”
2023 International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy
I attended and co-organised this year’s International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy at Penn State. We had 246 people from 15 countries join us, representing academia, government, industry, stakeholder (beekeepers, growers, land managers), K-12 education, and non-profit groups, and 6 amazing symposia spanning genomics to policy. The 2026 International Conference on Pollinator Biology,…
03.-06.06.2023 | International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy (Penn State)
Together with Christina Grozinger (Penn State University) and Michelle Flenniken (Montana State University) I am organizing the 2023 International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy. Date: June 3-6, 2023 Location: The Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center Conference website: https://iee.psu.edu/events/2023-international-conference-pollinator-biology-health-and-policy