Biography
I am an ecologist interested in how agricultural landscapes best support biodiversity and ecosystem functions, especially how pollinators and their multiple stressors (such as habitat loss, pesticides and climate change) affect pollination services and farmers' agricultural resilience. I enjoy interdisciplinary research, and my projects combine ecological field data and model predictions with psychology and economic valuations to understand the uptake and effectiveness of different pollinator conservation practices across Europe (A View Across Fields) and under climate change scenarios (Plan Bee). I am also interested in how agricultural practices expose bees to multiple pesticides and how these effects scale beyond traditional studies focusing on single substances in focal fields. My ecotoxicological research, led by Dr Rundlöf at Lund University, supports the basis for a more realistic, systems-based pollinator pesticide risk assessment that we are helping to define in the IPol-ERA project. Impact-driven, my research is transdisciplinary. I enjoy communicating and disseminating my work to multiple stakeholders: farmers, agricultural industries (levy boards, seed companies), land managers, beekeepers, scientists, and conservation organisations.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Marion Laurent, Stéphanie Bougeard, Lucile Caradec, Florence Ghestem, Matthias Albrecht, Mark JF Brown, Joachim de Miranda, Reet Karise, Jessica Knapp, José Serrano, G Simon, Maj Rundlöf, Janine Schwarz, Eleanor Attridge, Aurélie Babin, Irene Bottero, CINI Elena, Pilar de La Rúa, Gennaro Di Prisco, Christophe Dominik, DZUL Daniel, Andrés García Reina, Simon Hodge, Alexandra M Klein, Anina Knauer, MAND Marika, Vicente Martínez López, Giorgia Serra, Helena Pereira-Peixoto, Risto Raimets, Oliver Schweiger, Deepa Senapathi, Jane C Stout, Giovanni Tamburini, Cecilia Costa, Tomasz Kiljanek, Anne-Claire Martel, LE Sébastien, Marie-Pierre Chauzat, Novel indices reveal that pollinator exposure to pesticides varies across biological compartments and crop surroundings, Science of the Total Environment, 2024
Charlie C Nicholson, Eric V Lonsdorf, Georg KS Andersson, Jessica L Knapp, Glenn P Svensson, Mikaela Gönczi, Ove Jonsson, Joachim R de Miranda, Neal M Williams, Maj Rundlöf, Landscapes of risk: A comparative analysis of landscape metrics for the ecotoxicological assessment of pesticide risk to bees, Journal of Applied Ecology, 2024
Aurélie Babin, Frank Schurr, Sabine Delannoy, Patrick Fach, Minh Huyen Ton Nu Nguyet, Stéphanie Bougeard, Joachim R de Miranda, Maj Rundlöf, Dimitry Wintermantel, Matthias Albrecht, Eleanor Attridge, Irene Bottero, Elena Cini, Cecilia Costa, Pilar De la Rúa, Gennaro Di Prisco, Christophe Dominik, Daniel Dzul, Simon Hodge, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Jessica Knapp, Anina C Knauer, Marika Mänd, Vicente Martínez-López, Piotr Medrzycki, Maria Helena Pereira-Peixoto, Simon G Potts, Risto Raimets, Oliver Schweiger, Deepa Senapathi, José Serrano, Jane C Stout, Giovanni Tamburini, Mark JF Brown, Marion Laurent, Marie-Pierre Rivière, Marie-Pierre Chauzat, Eric Dubois, Distribution of infectious and parasitic agents among three sentinel bee species across European agricultural landscapes, Scientific Reports, 2024
Dalel Askri, Mathilde Pottier, Karim Arafah, Sébastien N Voisin, Simon Hodge, Jane C Stout, Christophe Dominik, Oliver Schweiger, Giovanni Tamburini, Maria Helena Pereira-Peixoto, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Vicente Martínez López, Pilar De la Rúa, Elena Cini, Simon G Potts, Janine M Schwarz, Anina C Knauer, Matthias Albrecht, Risto Raimets, Reet Karise, Gennaro di Prisco, Kjell Ivarsson, Glenn P Svensson, Oleksandr Ronsevych, Jessica L Knapp, Maj Rundlöf, Piero Onorati, Joachim R de Miranda, Michel Bocquet, Philippe Bulet, A blood test to monitor bee health across a European network of agricultural sites of different land-use by MALDI BeeTyping mass spectrometry, Science of The Total Environment, 2024
Jessica L. Knapp, Charlie Nicholson, Ove Jonsson, Joachim de Miranda, Maj Rundlöf, Ecological traits interact with landscape context to determine bees" pesticide risk, Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023
James Henty Williams, Adele Bordoni, Agnieszka Bednarska, Alice Pinto, Cátia Ariana Henriques Martins, Dora Henriques, Fabio Sgolastra, Jessica Knapp, João Loureiro, José Paulo Sousa, Kata Gócs, Luna Kondrup Marcussen, Maj Rundlöf, Maria von Post, Mariana Castro, Natasha Mølgaard, Noa Simon, Nuno Capela, Peet Thomsen, Ricardo Casqueiro, Serena Magagnoli, Sheila Holz, Sílvia Castro, Yoko Luise Dupont, Zuzanna Filipiak, Christopher John Topping, Roadmap for action on the environmental risk assessment of chemicals for insect pollinators (IPol"ERA), EFSA Supporting Publications, 2023
Angel Giménez-García, Alfonso Allen-Perkins, Ignasi Bartomeus, Stefano Balbi, Jessica L. Knapp, Violeta Hevia, Ben Alex Woodcock, Guy Smagghe, Marcos Miñarro, Maxime Eeraerts, Jonathan F. Colville, Juliana Hipólito, Pablo Cavigliasso, Guiomar Nates-Parra, José M. Herrera, Sarah Cusser, Benno I. Simmons, Volkmar Wolters, Shalene Jha, Breno M. Freitas, Finbarr G. Horgan, Derek R. Artz, C. Sheena Sidhu, Mark Otieno, Virginie Boreux, David J. Biddinger, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Neelendra K. Joshi, Rebecca I. A. Stewart, Matthias Albrecht, Charlie C. Nicholson, Alison D. O'Reilly, David William Crowder, Katherine L. W. Burns, Diego Nicolás Nabaes Jodar, Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi, Louis Sutter, Yoko L. Dupont, Bo Dalsgaard, Jeferson Gabriel da Encarnação Coutinho, Amparo Lázaro, Georg K. S. Andersson, Nigel E. Raine, Smitha Krishnan, Matteo Dainese, Wopke van der Werf, Henrik G. Smith, and Ainhoa Magrach, Pollination supply models from a local to global scale, Web Ecology, 2023
Alfonso Allen"Perkins, Ainhoa Magrach, Matteo Dainese, Lucas A Garibaldi, David Kleijn, Romina Rader, James R Reilly, Rachael Winfree, Ola Lundin, Carley M McGrady, Claire Brittain, David J Biddinger, Derek R Artz, Elizabeth Elle, George Hoffman, James D Ellis, Jaret Daniels, Jason Gibbs, Joshua W Campbell, Julia Brokaw, Julianna K Wilson, Keith Mason, Kimiora L Ward, Knute B Gundersen, Kyle Bobiwash, Larry Gut, Logan M Rowe, Natalie K Boyle, Neal M Williams, Neelendra K Joshi, Nikki Rothwell, Robert L Gillespie, Rufus Isaacs, Shelby J Fleischer, Stephen S Peterson, Sujaya Rao, Theresa L Pitts"Singer, Thijs Fijen, Virginie Boreux, Maj Rundlöf, Blandina Felipe Viana, Alexandra"Maria Klein, Henrik G Smith, Riccardo Bommarco, Luísa G Carvalheiro, Taylor H Ricketts, Jaboury Ghazoul, Smitha Krishnan, Faye E Benjamin, João Loureiro, Sílvia Castro, Nigel E Raine, Gerard Arjen de Groot, Finbarr G Horgan, Juliana Hipólito, Guy Smagghe, Ivan Meeus, Maxime Eeraerts, Simon G Potts, Claire Kremen, Daniel García, Marcos Miñarro, David W Crowder, Gideon Pisanty, Yael Mandelik, Nicolas J Vereecken, Nicolas Leclercq, Timothy Weekers, Sandra AM Lindstrom, Dara A Stanley, Carlos Zaragoza"Trello, Charlie C Nicholson, Jeroen Scheper, Carlos Rad, Evan AN Marks, Lucie Mota, Bryan Danforth, Mia Park, Antônio Diego M Bezerra, Breno M Freitas, Rachel E Mallinger, Fabiana Oliveira da Silva, Bryony Willcox, Davi L Ramos, Felipe D. da Silva e Silva, Amparo Lázaro, David Alomar, Miguel A González"Estévez, Hisatomo Taki, Daniel P Cariveau, Michael PD Garratt, Diego N Nabaes Jodar, Rebecca IA Stewart, Daniel Ariza, Matti Pisman, Elinor M Lichtenberg, Christof Schüepp, Felix Herzog, Martin H Entling, Yoko L Dupont, Charles D Michener, Gretchen C Daily, Paul R Ehrlich, Katherine LW Burns, Montserrat Vilà, Andrew Robson, Brad Howlett, Leah Blechschmidt, Frank Jauker, Franziska Schwarzbach, Maike Nesper, Tim Diekötter, Volkmar Wolters, Helena Castro, Hugo Gaspar, Brian A Nault, Isabelle Badenhausser, Jessica D Petersen, Teja Tscharntke, Vincent Bretagnolle, D Susan Willis Chan, Natacha Chacoff, Georg KS Andersson, Shalene Jha, Jonathan F Colville, Ruan Veldtman, Jeferson Coutinho, Felix JJA Bianchi, Louis Sutter, Matthias Albrecht, Philippe Jeanneret, Yi Zou, Anne L Averill, Agustin Saez, Amber R Sciligo, Carlos H Vergara, Elias H Bloom, Elisabeth Oeller, Ernesto I Badano, Gregory M Loeb, Heather Grab, Johan Ekroos, Vesna Gagic, Saul A Cunningham, Jens Åström, Pablo Cavigliasso, Alejandro Trillo, Alice Classen, Alice L Mauchline, Ana Montero"Castaño, CropPol: A dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination, Ecology, 103, (3), 2022
Jessica L Knapp, Adam Bates, Ove Jonsson, Björn Klatt, Theresia Krausl, Ullrika Sahlin, Glenn P Svensson, Maj Rundlöf, Pollinators, pests and yield: multiple trade-offs from insecticide use in a mass-flowering crop, Journal of Applied Ecology, 2022
Vanderplanck M, Michez D, Albrecht M, Attridge E, Babin A, Bottero I, Breeze T, Brown M, Chauzat M-P, Cini E, Costa C, De la Rua P, de Miranda JR, Di Prisco G, Dominik C, Dzul D, Fiordaliso W, Gennaux S, Ghisbain G, Hodge S, Klein A-M, Knapp J, Knauer A, Laurent M, Lefebvre V, Mänd M, Martinet B, Martinez-Lopez V, Medrzycki P, Pereira Peixoto MH, Potts SG, Przybyla K, Raimets R, Rundlöf M, Schweiger O, Senapathi D, Serrano J, Stout JC, Straw EA, Tamburini G, Toktas Y, Gérard M , Monitoring bee health in European agro-ecosystems using wing morphology and fat bodies, One Ecosystem, 6, 2021, pe63653.
Jessica L Knapp, Benjamin B Phillips, Jen Clements, Rosalind F Shaw, Juliet L Osborne, Socio-psychological factors, beyond knowledge, predict people"s engagement in pollinator conservation, People and Nature, 2020
Jessica L Knapp, Juliet L Osborne, Cucurbits as a model system for crop pollination management, Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2019
Jessica L Knapp, Rosalind F Shaw, Juliet L Osborne, Pollinator visitation to mass-flowering courgette and co-flowering wild flowers: implications for pollination and bee conservation on farms, Basic and Applied Ecology, 2019
Jessica L Knapp, Matthias A Becher, Charlotte C Rankin, Grace Twiston-Davies, Juliet L Osborne, Bombus terrestris in a mass-flowering pollinator-dependent crop: A mutualistic relationship?, Ecology and Ecvolution, 2019
JL Knapp, LJ Bartlett, JL Osborne, Re-evaluating strategies for pollinator-dependent crops: How useful is parthenocarpy?, Journal of Applied Ecology, 2017, p1171 - 1179
Jessica L Knapp, Juliet L Osborne, Courgette Production: Pollination Demand, Supply, and Value, Journal of economic entomology, 2017
MA Becher, V Grimm, J Knapp, J Horn, G Twiston-Davies, JL Osborne, BEESCOUT: A model of bee scouting behaviour and a software tool for characterizing nectar/pollen landscapes for BEEHAVE, Ecological modelling , 2016, p126 - 133
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Charlie Nicholson, Jessica Knapp, Maj Rundlöf, Silent fields: a cocktail of pesticides is stunting bumblebee colonies across Europe, study shows, The Conversation, 2024
Jessica Knapp, Reducing pesticides in farming doesn't have to be all or nothing - here's how to find a common ground, The Conversation, 2024
Research Expertise
Projects
- Title
- A view across fields: interdisciplinary perspectives for bees in agricultural landscapes
- Summary
- Biodiversity conservation must be both functional and sustainable to respond to global environmental change. By modifying environments, humans are critical to this. However, international policy lacks an appreciation beyond the 'rational' (ecology and economic) of what motivates or constrains people's conservation efforts (Fig. 1). We will address this through the lens of pollinator conservation in agricultural systems. First, we will extend and validate an ecological model to generate systematic predictions of two bee species' (with contrasting ecologies) reproductive output and pollination services in different landscape contexts. We will then combine this information with predictors of people's engagement (e.g. perceptions) in conservation with specific practices costs to provide stakeholders (policymakers and farmers) with robust, generalisable, and holistic recommendations for pollinator conservation. Furthermore, we integrate ecological and economic perspectives into a validated ecological-economic model to elucidate how landscape-scale management of high-scoring conservation practices can maximise cost-effectiveness for farmers, policymakers and society. In doing so, we aim to demonstrate how a paradigm shift to an interdisciplinary approach can provide policy-ready solutions to land-use change and ultimately increase engagement in biodiversity conservation.
- Funding Agency
- FORMAS: Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development
- Date From
- 2023
- Date To
- 2027
- Title
- Plan Bee: interdisciplinary pollinator conservation for changing agricultural landscapes
- Summary
- Biodiversity conservation must be ecologically effective and socially sustainable to mitigate environmental change, now and in the future. We will address this through a lens of bee conservation in agricultural systems, where multiple drivers such as habitat loss, climate change and pesticide risk threaten bees and pollination services. Our project will extend our ecological model to generate predictions of bees' reproductive output and pollination services in response to habitat loss and climate change. We will test these drivers in isolation and combination to improve the assessment of the combined effects of these multiple drivers on biodiversity. We will then use our ecological model to explore strategies to handle these combined effects - pollinator conservation practices, to fight the twin challenges of habitat loss and climate change in agricultural systems. Finally, we combine this information with people's intent to implement these conservation practices to identify synergies (e.g. increased bee populations and crop pollination services) or trade-offs (e.g. increased bee populations at a cost to the farmer) that may facilitate or impede future bee conservation efforts. Thus, we aim to demonstrate how a paradigm shift to an interdisciplinary approach can provide policy-ready solutions to environmental change and ultimately increase engagement in biodiversity conservation.
- Funding Agency
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
- Date From
- 2023
- Date To
- 2024
- Title
- RESToring POLLinator habitat across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches
- Summary
- RestPoll is a highly transdisciplinary project aiming to provide society with tools to reverse wild pollinator declines and to position Europe as a global leader in pollinator restoration. RestPoll will, together with stakeholders ranging from individual land managers to governments, co-design, evaluate, and refine measures and cross-sectoral approaches to restore pollinators and their services. The RestPoll consortium combines the expertise of natural and social scientists, NGOs, businesses, and ministries. Stakeholders along the food value chain will be engaged through newly developed participatory approaches at diverse social, ecological, and political scales. Central to RestPoll is the establishment of a Europe-wide network of pollinator restoration case-study areas and Living Labs (LL), which are unique hubs for experimentation, demonstration, and mutual learning. RestPoll aims to position Europe as a global leader and set the future agenda for pollinator restoration worldwide. The transdisciplinary RestPoll consortium will develop, test, evaluate and refine cross-sectoral pollinator restoration approaches to conserve biodiversity and to benefit nature and society. To restore wild pollinator diversity and their vital pollination services, RestPoll will co-design measures with different stakeholders (ranging from individual land managers to governments) at various spatial scales (field, farm, landscape, European scales), in agricultural landscapes that are dominated by intensively managed crops or grasslands. Our holistic approach, informed by cutting-edge transdisciplinary research, will integrate stakeholders and actors at multiple levels as well as natural and social science disciplines to engage in participatory planning and development of new business models. Learning outcomes will be disseminated by regional to European multi-actor partners and collaborators, which will ensure impact beyond the end of the project.
- Funding Agency
- Horizon Europe
Recognition
Representations
Associate editor the Journal of Pollination Ecology
Guest editor BMC Ecology and Evolution 'Agroecology: protecting, restoring, and promoting biodiversity'