Thursday 23th October
21:00 Carolin Mayer – (FLASH TALK) Journal of Pollination Ecology Newsflash – Chair: Marcos Méndez
21:15 Dinner
Friday 24th October
8:30 SENIOR PLENARY TALK – Chair: Marcos Méndez
Luisa Carvalheiro – Pollinators in a changing world: advances, gaps, and future directions
9:20 Short break
9:30-11:30 1st session – Chairs: Marcin Zych and Stefan Dötterl
9:30 Océane Bartholomée – An Arctic facing changes: Land use change and climate warming effects on the pollination of bilberry
and lingonberry
9:45 Johan Svedin – Will experimental phenological mismatch alter seed set in two Vaccinium species along an elevation gradient?
10:00 Chatura Vaidya – Interactive effects of drought and plant biodiversity loss increase floral resources and impact plant-pollinator
interactions in drought-tolerant lemon beebalm (Monarda citriodora) in Central Texas
10:15 Rufus Isaacs – Extreme heat affects blueberry pollen, pollination, and pollinator nutrition
10:30 Catarina Siopa – Do pollinator declines translate into increasing crop pollinator deficits? Evidence from global temporal trends
in crops
10:45 Hanna Thosteman – Better steering bees for better crop pollination
11:00 Maaike van den Hil – Lasioglossum (Halictidae) species as pollinators of lettuce
11:15 Femke Verweij – Differences in visitation of honeybees and bumblebees to ornamental plant varieties can be explained by floral
traits
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:30 2nd session – Chairs: Yuval Sapir and Paolo Biella
12:00 Eva Matoušková – Learning to forget: Experience-driven shifts in hoverfly foraging fidelity
12:15 Melissa León-Osper – Evolutionary drivers and ecological roles of red flower coloration across pollination systems
12:30 Marielle Schleifer – Does pollen nutritional composition explain differences in pollen collection between alpine bumblebees and
hoverflies?
12:45 Benjamin Lazarus – Fast or furious? How pore shape tunes pollen release from poricidal flowers
13:00 Beth Nicholls – Quantifying the energetic costs of flower handling
13:15 Lydia Thompson – Impacts of non-lethal sample methods on bumblebee foraging behaviour
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Excursion
15:30 JUNIOR PLENARY TALK – Chair: Marcos Méndez
Emiliano Pioltelli – Pollination through the lens of nutrition: from floral resources to human well-being
16:10-16:55 3rd session – Chair: Marcos Méndez
16:10 Jane Devlin – Choice of commercial pollinator can reduce fruit loss and improve harvest in Scottish sweet cherry
16:25 Ola Olsson – Pollinator mediated Allee-effects in populations of Arnica montana (Asteraceae)
16:40 Wilhelm Osterman – The reciprocal relationship between polyploidy and plant reproduction
16:55-17:55 Coffe break with posters
17:55- 19:25 4th session – Chairs: Casper van der Kooi and Javier Valverde
17:55 Jennifer Rose – The effects of landscape heterogeneity and floral resources on wild bee reproductive success: a meta-analysis
18:10 Bastiaan Star – Spatial connectivity between pollinator populations in northern Europe investigated by genomics and bioclimatic
models
18:25 Sophie Hecht – Linking land-use related pollination patterns to floral trait evolution
18:40 Andre Krahner – FIT for purpose? Using light interception traps for sampling bees in flowering tree canopies
18:55 Leon Marshall – Mapping what we don’t know: knowledge gaps in wild bee diversity
19:10 Edina Török – Landscape and local scale drivers of cavity-nesting Hymenoptera in rural villages
19:25-19:35 Leg stretching break
19:35-21:10 5th session – Chairs: Nina Sletvold and Jon Ågren
19:35 Anna-Sophie Hawranek – 3D floral syndromes in Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae)
19:50 Constantin Kopper – Pollination syndromes shape evolutionary rates, floral disparity and modularity
20:05 Aarushi Susheel – Pollinator-mediated floral evolution in the pollination-generalised plant Viscaria vulgaris
20:20 Yedra García – Flower power: How co-flowering species can shape floral evolution
20:35 Lisette van Kolfschoten – Getting hooked? Testing the function of anther spurs in Vaccinium myrtillus
20:50 Sam McCarren – Negative frequency-dependent selection through pollen export, not seed set maintains equal morph ratios of
mirror-image flowers
21:05 Yuping Zhong – (FLASH TALK) AI-powered classification model for German syrphid pollinators: a step towards rapid automated
pollinator identification
21:15 Dinner
Saturday, 25th October
8:30 SENIOR PLENARY TALK – Chair: Mohamed Abdelaziz
Jordi Bosch – Solitary bees in a toxic world
9:20 Short break
9:30-11:00 6th session – Chairs: Renate Wesselingh and Carolin Mayer
9:30 Carmen Nebauer – Mitigating pesticide effects on Bombus terrestris: Comparative benefits of clover fields and diverse flower strips
9:45 Jørund Johansen – Fluoride exposure in pollinating insects near an aluminium smelter in Norway: a pilot study
10:00 Anke Dietzsch – Site-specific weed management can boost food resources for pollinators
10:15 Maureen Page – Honey bee competition reduces bumble bee reproduction in field cage experiment
10:30 Megan Reilly – Bees and multiple stressors: The impact of a pyrethroid insecticide and nutrition on the red mason bee (Osmia
bicornis)
10:45 Kenneth Kuba – Microplastics effects on wild bee larvae
11:00-11.30 Coffe break
11:30-13:30 7th session – Chairs: Cala Castellanos and José Mª Gómez
11:30 Magda Karlo – Pollinator interaction with flower strips varies across different bioclimatic zones
11:45 Natalia Timuş – The effects of different management types on plant – pollinators interactions in Transylvanian semi-natural
grasslands
12:00 Willem Proesmans – The effects of nitrogen deposition on the vegetation and the pollinator community in calcareous grasslands
12:15 Nick Rosenberger – Climate warming restructures subalpine plant community composition with consequences for bumble bee
populations
12:30 Yuval Sapir – Is flower colour variation adaptive?
12:45 Nina Sletvold – The role of secondary pollinators in the evolution of complex colour signals in a bimodal pollination system
13:00 Larissa de Paola – Colour and chemistry: how flowers signal reward-quality to pollinators
13:15 Casper van der Kooi – Covert communication? On the visual ecology of Mediterranean red flowers
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30 JUNIOR PLENARY TALK – Chair: Mohamed Abdelaziz
Blanca Arroyo – Scaling up from individuals to complex plant-pollinator networks
15:10-16:55 8th session – Chairs: Ainhoa Magrach and Amparo Lázaro
15:10 Manuel Ankel – Flower-bee interactions along land use and climatic gradients: a large-scale study for Central Europe
15:25 Brandon S. Whitley – From South to North: Plant–Pollinator Networks Across 1100 km of Arctic Kalaallit Nunaat Greenland
15:40 Luis J. Chueca – Coupling diet and pollen metabarcoding with field surveys to reveal plant-pollinator interactions
15:55 Huan Liang – Spatiotemporal dynamics and multi-scale drivers of plant–pollinator networks along an urbanization gradient
16:10 Ugo Mendes Diniz – Addressing the “nocturnal problem”: the role of non-sphingid moths and nocturnal bees in tropical pollination
networks and how they respond to disturbance
16:25 Diana Michael – Individuals matter: habitat factors and plant traits shape individual-level pollinator interactions in a semi-arid
landscape
16:40 Jakub Štenc – Drivers of pollen deposition on Succisa pratensis in a dynamic plant-pollinator network
16:55-17:55 Coffe break with posters
18:10-19:10 9th session – Chair: Magne Friberg
18:10 Marta Barberis – Insect-flower interactions in the Mediterranean area: a Citizen Science dataset collated within the LIFE 4 Pollinators
project
18:25 Janine Griffiths-Lee – Sow Wild! A citizen science project to assess the effectiveness of sown mini-meadows in recruiting beneficial
insects in urban green spaces
18:40 Rosa Ranalli – Designing pollinator-friendly cities: the role of flower traits, native species, and meadow management
18:55 Gaya ten Kate – Comparing methods to quantify floral resources in cities: a meta-analysis
19:10-19:20 Leg stretching break
19:20-20:20 10th session – Chair: Stein Hegland
19:20 Vidisha Bansal – Intraspecific floral trait plasticity varies with plant community structure along a land-use gradient
19:35 Maria Clara Castellanos – Phylogeography of an invasion to track rapid floral evolution
19:50 Magne Friberg – Ploidy-level and range position determines the intensity and outcome of a coevolving plant-pollinator interaction
20:05 Jon Ågren – Plant mating patterns in small populations
20:30 Congress dinner