Voodoo - Viral eco-evolutionary dynamics of wild and domestic pollinators under global change

Project lead

Dr. Heidi Wittmer
Christine Polzin

Employees
involved

Salina Spiering, Josef Settele (NSF), Oliver Schweiger (Biozönoseforschung), Hans-Hermann Thulke (Ökologische Systemanalyse)

Duration

2021 − 2023

Budget total

2,037,760 €

Budget UFZ

549,974€

Funding agency

European Commission (Biodiversa)

Project Partners

  • National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) (coordinator)
  • UFZ - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research
  • University Halle-Wittenberg General Zoology
  • Institute for Biology (Germany)
  • Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Poland)
  • Jagiellonian University of Krakow (Poland)
  • Agroscope - Agroecology and Environment (Switzerland)
  • University of Bern (Switzerland)

Short summary

VOODOO generates new knowledge on the disease risk in different landscapes to pollinators arising from the effects of urban and agricultural land-use on floral resources, pollinator foraging and viral pathogen coinfection and transmission. We will achieve this through measurement of field-sampled plant-pollinator-virus communities with high-resolution molecular analysis, laboratory and field experiments, modelling and analysing perceptions of disease risk among stakeholders.

Role of UFZ

UFZ brings scientific expertise in insect-plant ecology, landscape ecology, global change, invasive species, epidemiology, emerging disease and social science.

Publications

Willem Proesmans, Matthias Albrecht, Anna Gajda, Peter Neumann, Robert Paxton, Maryline Pioz, Christine Polzin, Oliver Schweiger, Josef Settele, Hajnalka Szentgyörgyi, Hans-Hermann Thulke & Adam J. Vanbergen (2021). Pathways for novel epidemiology: plant-pollinator-pathogen networks and global change Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36, 7, 623-636 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.03.006 (OPEN ACCESS).

Proesmans W; Felten E; Laurent E; Albrecht M; Cyrille N; Labonté A; Maurer C; Paxton R; Schweiger O; Szentgyorgyi H; Vanbergen AJ. (2023) Urbanisation and agricultural intensification modulate plant-pollinator network structure and robustness Functional Ecology (Accepted 11/2023).


External Website

https://voodoo-project.eu/