RestPoll
Restoring pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches
To counteract the decline of pollinators and the associated loss of pollination services, our pan-European project “RestPoll” aims to restore pollinator habitats on a long-term basis and to improve their connectivity across landscapes. This benefits not only agricultural production and food security, but also wild plants and many other organisms that directly or indirectly depend on pollinators.
Objectives and methodology
RestPoll is a highly transdisciplinary project that aims to provide society with the tools needed to reverse the decline of wild pollinators and to establish Europe as a global leader in the restoration of pollinator habitats. Researchers are developing, optimising, and evaluating measures for restoring pollinator populations and their ecosystem services in close collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, from individual land managers to governmental institutions.
Work packages (WP)
The RestPoll consortium combines the expertise of natural and social scientists, NGOs, businesses and ministries. Stakeholders along the food value chain will be engaged through newly developed participatory approaches at different social, ecological, and political scales. Central to RestPoll is the establishment of a Europe-wide network of pollinator restoration case study areas and Living Labs (LL), which are unique hubs for experimentation, demonstration, and mutual learning.
Publications
- Knauer, A., Adhikari, S., …, Mupepele, A.C., …, Pereira-Peixoto, M.H., …, Tamburini, G., …, Klein, A.M. & Albrecht, M. (2026): Pesticides and habitat loss additively reduce wild bees in crop fields. Nature Ecology and Evolution 10: 95–104 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02924-z
- Sritongchuay, T., Beckmann, M., Dalsgaard, B., Klein, A.M., Lausch, A., Nielsen, A., Osterman, J., Selsam, P., Wayo, K. & Seppelt, R. (2026): Crop diversity in the landscape boosts pollinators and yield of pollinator dependent crops across the world. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 395: 109943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.109943
- Klein, A.M., Adamsone-Fiskovica, A., Alins, G., Angelstam, P., Belveze, A., Bosch, J., Breeze, T., Comont, R.F., de Groot, E., Dicks, L., Dominguez, A.R., Dudás, G., Fabricius Kristiansen, L., Fedoriak, M., Gallai, N., Garratt, M., Grivins, M., Grozinger, C., Jenner, N., Kleftodimos, G., Kleijn, D., Kovács-Hostyánszki, A., Krauss, B., Leonhardt, S.D., Osterman, J., Ouin, A., Plowman, A., Potts, S.G., Rasmussen, C., Roquer-Beni, L., Rossi, D., Rundlöf, M., Schweiger, O., Smith, H.G., Stout, J.C., Sutter, L., Thorsøe, M., Vlontzos, G., Wintermantel, D., Kranke, N. & Thompson, A. (2025): RestPoll: Restoring Pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches. Research Ideas and Outcomes 11: e181727. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.11.e181727
- Bosshard, E., Harrison, M.E., …, Klein, A.M., …, Sritongchuay, T., … & Kaiser-Bunbury, C.N. (2025): Proximity to natural habitat is not consistently associated with pollination services in tropical smallholder farms: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ecology Letters 28: e70229. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70229
- Bishop, G.A., Kleijn, D., …, Fornoff, F., …, Klein, A.M., …, von Königslöw, V., … & Fijen, T.P.M. (2025): Critical habitat thresholds for effective pollinator conservation in agricultural landscapes. Science 389: 1314–1319. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adr2146
- Eeraerts, M., Osterman, J., Batáry, P., Klein, A.M., … & Verheyen, K. (2025): Global synthesis of apple pollination research highlights general pollen limitation and positive contributions of wild bees compared to honeybees. Journal of Applied Ecology 62: 2487–2501. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70155
- Arany, I. & Czúcz, B. (2025): Methods for Assessing the Ecosystem Service of Honey Provisioning by the European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.): A Systematic Review. Sustainability 17: 4533. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17104533
- Fijen, T.P.M., Eeraerts, M., Osterman, J., Beyer, N., Hass, A., Lundin, O. & Westphal, C. (2025): Crop diversification for pollinator conservation. Landscape Ecology 40: 19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-02027-3
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RestPoll receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme under the project number 101082102. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union (EU) or the Research Executive Agency (REA).