Personal profile

Research

I am an ecologist and environmental scientist interested in understanding the multitude of factors affecting biodiversity and the functions organisms provide in ecosystems and to humans. I am particularly interested in how land use change and management of agricultural landscapes affect pollinators and the pollination services they provide to both crops and wild plants. How we can work to reduce the threats towards pollinators and take action to support them - both threatened and common species. In the last few years, I have also been developing the field of landscape ecotoxicology, to understand how bees are exposed to and effected by pesticide use in real landscapes. In our research, we use a combination of landscape ecological experiments, more detailed manipulative experiments and observational surveys, and also different modelling approaches, to understand drivers of pollinator diversity, abundance, population and service change. I particularly enjoy to work with farmers on their land in our research and to interact with national and international authorities and a broad public in communicating our scientific findings. Here you can see and listen to some of our findings on how one neonicotinoid influence wild bees negatively and another one did not, reflections on chemical mixtures and bees, the importance of pollinators for us humans and in their own right and how we work to support Biodiversity under Global Change within the Strategic Research Area BECC, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate.

I did my PhD with Henrik Smith on the influence of organic farming on farmland biodiversity and a postdoc with Riccardo Bommarco on pollination and biological control in red clover seed production and in the EU project STEP on Status and Trends of European Pollinators. I also visited Valery Forbes lab to model individual bumble bees under pesticide exposure and Neal Williams lab to explore flower strips for mitigating pesticide influence on bees and model bee pesticide exposure. I now have a Landscape Ecology Group (LEG) at Lund university working on landscape ecotoxicology, pollination ecology, habitat restoration and the multiple stress factors that bees and other pollinators encounter in today’s landscapes. 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Ecology (including Biodiversity Conservation)

Free keywords

  • agroecology
  • bumblebees
  • landscape ecotoxicology
  • pollination
  • landscape ecology
  • biodiversity
  • bees
  • pollinators

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  • EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant-Pollinator Networks

    Lanuza, J. B., Knight, T. M., Montes-Perez, N., Glenny, W., Acuña, P., Albrecht, M., Artamendi, M., Badenhausser, I., Bennett, J. M., Biella, P., Bommarco, R., Cappellari, A., Castro, S., Clough, Y., Colom, P., Costa, J., Cyrille, N., de Manincor, N., Dominguez-Lapido, P. & Dominik, C. & 98 others, Dupont, Y. L., Feldmann, R., Felten, E., Ferrero, V., Fiordaliso, W., Fisogni, A., Fitzpatrick, Ú., Galloni, M., Gaspar, H., Gazzea, E., Goia, I., Gómez-Martínez, C., González-Estévez, M. A., González-Varo, J. P., Grass, I., Hadrava, J., Hautekèete, N., Hederström, V., Heleno, R., Hervias-Parejo, S., Heuschele, J. M., Hoiss, B., Holzschuh, A., Hopfenmüller, S., Iriondo, J. M., Jauker, B., Jauker, F., Jersáková, J., Kallnik, K., Karise, R., Kleijn, D., Klotz, S., Krausl, T., Kühn, E., Lara-Romero, C., Larkin, M., Laurent, E., Lázaro, A., Librán-Embid, F., Liu, Y., Lopes, S., López-Núñez, F., Loureiro, J., Magrach, A., Mänd, M., Marini, L., Mas, R. B., Massol, F., Maurer, C., Michez, D., Molina, F. P., Morente-López, J., Mullen, S., Nakas, G., Neuenkamp, L., Nowak, A., O'Connor, C. J., O'Rourke, A., Öckinger, E., Olesen, J. M., Opedal, Ø. H., Petanidou, T., Piquot, Y., Potts, S. G., Power, E. F., Proesmans, W., Rakosy, D., Reverté, S., Roberts, S. P. M., Rundlöf, M., Russo, L., Schatz, B., Scheper, J., Schweiger, O., Serra, P. E., Siopa, C., Smith, H. G., Stanley, D., Ştefan, V., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stout, J. C., Sutter, L., Švara, E. M., Świerszcz, S., Thompson, A., Traveset, A., Trefflich, A., Tropek, R., Tscharntke, T., Vanbergen, A. J., Vilà, M., Vujić, A., White, C., Wickens, J. B., Wickens, V. B., Winsa, M., Zoller, L. & Bartomeus, I., 2025 Feb, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34, 2, e70000.

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    Open Access
  • Screening of pesticides in pollen collected by honey bees in the Northern zone

    Rundlöf, M., Eriksson, E., Bergman, J., Erling, S., Jonsson, O., Ledesma, M., Blažytė-Čereškienė, L., Hatteland, B. A., Svensson, G., Weslien, K., Olsson, O. & Gönczi, M., 2025, 1 ed. Uppsala: SLU Centrum för kemiska bekämpningsmedel i miljön (CKB). 46 p.

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  • Variation in the pollen diet of managed bee species across European agroecosystems

    Tourbez, C., Gekière, A., Bottero, I., Chauzat, M. P., Cini, E., Corvucci, F., de Miranda, J. R., Prisco, G. D., Dominik, C., Grillenzoni, F. V., Hodge, S., Kiljanek, T., Knauer, A., Laurent, M., Martínez-López, V., Raimets, R., Schwarz, J. M., Senapathi, D., Serra, G. & Tamburini, G. & 12 others, Wintermantel, D., Brown, M. J. F., Albrecht, M., Costa, C., Rúa, P. D. L., Klein, A. M., Mänd, M., Potts, S. G., Rundlöf, M., Schweiger, O., Stout, J. C. & Michez, D., 2025, In: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 383, 109518.

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    Open Access
  • Distribution of infectious and parasitic agents among three sentinel bee species across European agricultural landscapes

    Babin, A., Schurr, F., Delannoy, S., Fach, P., Huyen Ton Nu Nguyet, M., Bougeard, S., de Miranda, J. R., Rundlöf, M., Wintermantel, D., Albrecht, M., Attridge, E., Bottero, I., Cini, E., Costa, C., De la Rúa, P., Di Prisco, G., Dominik, C., Dzul, D., Hodge, S. & Klein, A. M. & 18 others, Knapp, J., Knauer, A. C., Mänd, M., Martínez-López, V., Medrzycki, P., Pereira-Peixoto, M. H., Potts, S. G., Raimets, R., Schweiger, O., Senapathi, D., Serrano, J., Stout, J. C., Tamburini, G., Brown, M. J. F., Laurent, M., Rivière, M. P., Chauzat, M. P. & Dubois, E., 2024 Dec, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 1, 3524.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    Open Access
  • Effects on biodiversity in semi-natural pastures of giving the grazing animals access to additional nutrient sources: a systematic review

    Jakobsson, S., Envall, I., Bengtsson, J., Rundlöf, M., Svensson, M., Åberg, C. & Lindborg, R., 2024 Dec, In: Environmental Evidence. 13, 1, 26 p., 18.

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    Open Access