🌺Plants are not only essential for our physical well-being but also contribute to our mental health🤗Take a moment to reconnect with nature at Fascination of Plants Day events around May 18 across 63 participating countries & experience the restorative power of plants🌿 #plantday

Our new paper is out! 🐝🌼

'Partitioning the contribution of bees with different traits and hoverflies to flower-visitor interaction networks'
doi.org/10.1016/j.ecol…

Thanks to Prof. Shoko Sakai, JSPS 独立行政法人日本学術振興会（学振） and Kyoto University for hosting me in Japan.

#pollinators #ecology

Yesterday, on the day of Liberty, we were collecting Ranunuculus section Batrachium for our visitor Majda Lučanová (U South Bohemia) and visiting the Utricularia australis and U. gibba populations that will be the focus of Afonso Petronilho MSc Thesis!

Our new paper, led by Dr. Maxime Eeraerts, examines how #pollination deficits & their relation with insect #pollinator visitation are cultivar-dependent in an entomophilous crop ( #Blueberry ) in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment: doi.org/10.1016/j.agee… (🐝📸Jason Gibbs)

El curso de muestreo e identificación de abejas que celebraremos en junio, ya tiene disponible el programa (siempre susceptible de algunos cambios mínimos 😉).

www3.usal.es/cverano/infocu…

Interested in doing postdoctoral work in my lab in London, working on insect behaviour, learning and cognition? Have a look at this fellowship opportunity, and get in touch:
hfsp.org/hfsp-news/2024…

Many thanks, Promote Pollinators and Marten Schoonman, for the Theory of Change workshops on developing a 🇵🇹 National Pollinator Strategy!

Please check the webpage and poster of the 🇵🇹 ToC. These workshops were pivotal in obtaining the PolinizAÇÃO project.

🔗pollinet.pt/plano-de-acao

🐝 No dia 17 de abril o PolinizAÇÃO voou até ao Monte da Caparica! Conjuntamente com o ICNF demos a conhecer o mundo dos polinizadores, o FITCount e iNaturalist.
Esta atividade teve como público-alvo estudantes da Egas Moniz School of Health & Science e jovens da Lifeshaker a quem agradecemos o convite

🚀 Hoje apresentamos-vos a página 'Plano de ação' do PolinizAÇÃO, com informação sobre os Workshops da Teoria da Mudança para os Polinizadores em 🇵🇹promovidos pela polli.NET , Promote Pollinators e Marten Schoonman! E o poster resumo elaborado pela Cadernos de Campo
👉 pollinet.pt/plano-de-acao

New study sheds light on the critical role of pollinators in crop production, with guidance for future research 🐝

Pollinator dependence values across various crops and cultivars reveal an underestimation of pollinator importance 🌻

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

NEW TODAY in nature - A vast DNA tree of life brings open access DNA sequences of >9500 flowering plants! 🧬

This invaluable resource crafted by 279 scientists lets us answer key questions about modern plant life and look back in time to its origins 🌿

nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our Big Flowering Plant Bang paper is now out in Nature!! So excited to have been part of this massive collaborative effort led by the Kew Gardens team, involving 279 co-authors from 27 countries!
#angiosperms #phylogenomics
nature.com/articles/s4158…

The month of April is being intense!

As part of the PolinizAÇÃO project, we started the pilot test of methodologies to monitor insect pollinators in four out of five sites in Portugal. 🐝🦋🪰

The FLOWer Lab is responsible for the testing in one site in the south of Coimbra.

O mês de abril foi intenso para a nossa equipa de monitorização de insetos polinizadores! Parabéns a todos os envolvidos! 🥳🐝
No âmbito do projeto PolinizAÇÃO, iniciámos o teste piloto das metodologias de monitorização em quatro dos nossos cinco locais em Portugal.

Ana Afonso, post-doc FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬, was one of the speakers at today's dcv.talks, where she presented a summary of the main results obtained during her PhD, with the talk “Diversification and reproductive dynamics in Linum suffruticosum s.l.”!

A nossa campanha semanal #PollinatorSpotlight 💡

O destaque desta campanha é a mosca 𝘌𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘴! 🪰

Saibam mais aqui: shorturl.at/anyK1

📷 ©Ivar Leidus

Last week, on April 18th, we had a great day in the EPADRV, where we presented the PolinizAÇÃO project, FITCount, and inaugurated an exposition about the initiative 'Bees on the playground', developed at the school. In the afternoon, we developed several hands-on activities!

No dia 18 de abril tivemos o prazer de participar no seminário da iniciativa 'Abelhas no Recreio', um projeto fantástico da EPADRV. O seminário e as atividades ao ar livre contaram com vários membros da polli.NET, e incluíram também a apresentação do PolinizAÇÃO!

Tomorrow, within the scope of the dcv.talks of the Department of Life Sciences, Ana Afonso, postdoc researcher at FLOWer Lab, will give the seminar 'Diversification and reproductive dynamics in Linum suffruticosum s.l.'

#cfe_uc #cfe_flowerlab #FLOWerLab #flowerpower #dcvtalks

Ajudamos a divulgar
🧑‍🏫 'Esta quarta-feira 24 (às 16:30), contamos com a tertúlia de abril de 2024 onde João Farminhão apresentará
🪻Tertúlia – Sicó desconhecido⛰️

A tertúlia será presencial e decorrerá no Auditório do Departamento de Ciências da Vida, mas será também transmitida