The presentations highlight the complementary nature of the bee modules in MonViA (wild bees, honeybees, color plate monitoring of bee communities). The combination of various approaches, including those from the fields of citizen science, expert monitoring, molecular genetics, and morphometrics, takes into account the diversity of native pollinators and forms the basis for deriving long-term trends in pollinator populations in agricultural landscapes. MonViA's conference presentations generated considerable interest among the assembled experts.
The annual meeting of the Association of Institiutes for Bee Research (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Instititute für Bienenforschung e.V.) is the most important scientific bee conference in Germany and is attended annually by more than one hundred researchers, including some from neighboring countries. This year, the conference was hosted by the Institute for Bee Protection (Julius Kühn-Institut) in Braunschweig, to mark the intitute`s tenth anniversary.