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Becoming a member entitles you to discounted (and sometimes free) access to the majority of events.

Shaping the Future for Pollinators – Innovations in Farmed Landscapes

Hybrid event September 6th-8th hosted at the Copthorne Hotel, Slough and at Kew Gardens.

We are delighted to launch the program and open registration for this event organised by the AAB in collaboration with the Royal Entomological Society and the British Ecological Society

Registration is open – View the full summary here

AAB/BES/RES members receive a registration discount. All AAB non-members will have the opportunity to join the ABB for free until the end of 2022.

AAB-BES-RES Early Career Professional Members are invited to join the meeting as an online delegate for FREE.

AAB Early Career Professional Non-Members are invited to join as an online delegate for the nominal fee of £5.

The Association of Applied Biologists (AAB) has teamed up with the Royal Entomological Society to deliver a 3-day conference “Shaping the Future for Pollinators: Innovations in Farmed Landscapes”. Pollinators play a vital role in maintaining both semi-natural and agricultural ecosystems and healthy populations bolster food security, livelihoods and social wellbeing. With evidence that many species of pollinators are in decline, their conservation and management is of great public, economic and political interest. As a result, the ecology and conservation of managed and wild pollinators is a rapidly growing field of research, alongside the study of their associated ecosystem services.

This conference aims to determine how we can shape farmed landscapes to make them resilient to future challenges such as climate change. Delegates will explore the impact of agricultural practices at the farm and landscape scale on pollinator behaviour, ecology and the delivery of ecosystem services. Talks and discussions not only to share current best practices on the sustainable management of pollination services, but explore how novel innovations can create new opportunities and address future risks. This conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and policymakers to debate recent advancements in the field of pollinator research; and also to go beyond ecological research to explore emerging technologies within the field.

Invited speakers include:

• Phil Stevenson (Kew Gardens and Greenwich University, UK)
• Lucas Garibaldi (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina)
• Nacho Bartomeus (Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Spain)
• Claire Carvell (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK)
• Chris Hartfield (National Farmers Union, UK)
• Simon Potts (Reading University, UK)
• David Kleijn (Wageninger University & Research, The Netherlands)

Event sessions:

Session 1 : Landscape-scale management of pollination dynamics

Session 2: Pollinator habitat management/provision

Session 3: Managing crop pollination

Session 4: Pollinator Nutrition

Session 5: Assessing pollinator risks

Session 6: Innovation strategies in pollination biology

Session 7: Monitoring and Modelling Pollination

Conference registration includes attendance at the conference, coffee, lunch and tea, and the conference dinner (including wine).

Prices:

AAB/RES/BES Members £360.00
AAB/RES/BES Retired Members £320.00
AAB/RES/BES Student Members £170.00
Non-members £425.00
Non-member Students £195.00
Late booking surcharge £30.00

The host hotel has preferential rates available for meeting participants.

AAB/BES/RES members receive a registration discount. All AAB non-members will have the opportunity to join the ABB for free until the end of 2022.

AAB-BES-RES Early Career Professional Members are invited to join the meeting as an online delegate for FREE.

AAB Early Career Professional Non-Members are invited to join as an online delegate for the nominal fee of £5.

Registration is now open for both in-person and online delegates.

Register via the AAB website

In-person delegates will have access to all oral sessions, poster session, meeting catering, conference dinner, travel and access to Kew Gardens.

Online delegates will have access to all scientific sessions based at the host hotel and can ask questions via text that is monitoring by AAB staff. Online poster presenters will be invited to provide a short video introducing their research. All posters will be included within a digital poster book.

Visit the Meeting website

INFORMATION FLYER

RES SIG convenor: Michael Garratt, University of Reading, m.p.garratt@reading.ac.uk

Note – We do not provide recordings of events or presentations as standard, unless otherwise stated.