A comparative analysis of crop pollinator survey methods along a large-scale climatic gradient

Leclercq, Nicolas; Marshall, Leon; Weekers, Timothy; Anselmo, Abigaël; Benda, Daniel; Bevk, Danilo; Bogusch, Petr; Cejas, Diego; Drepper, Bianca; Galloni, Marta; Gérard, Maxence; Ghisbain, Guillaume; Hutchinson, Louise; Martinet, Baptiste; Michez, Denis; Molenberg, Jean-Marc; Nikolić, Petar; Roberts, Stuart P. M.; Smagghe, Guy; Straka, Jakub; Vandamme, Peter; Wood, Thomas J.; Vereecken, Nicolas

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2022.107871

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“…For bees, we found the Mediterranean countries to host the highest diversity, as previously observed by other authors (Leclercq et al, 2022; Michener, 2007; Nieto et al, 2014; Orr et al, 2021). The three most species‐rich countries for bees are Greece, Spain and Italy.…”

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National records of 3000 European bee and hoverfly species: A contribution to pollinator conservation

Reverté,

Miličić,

Ačanski

et al. 2023

Insect Conserv Diversity

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Pollinators play a crucial role in ecosystems globally, ensuring the seed production of most flowering plants. They are threatened by global changes and knowledge of their distribution at the national and continental levels is needed to implement efficient conservation actions, but this knowledge is still fragmented and/or difficult to access. As a step forward, we provide an updated list of around 3000 European bee and hoverfly species, reflecting their current distributional status at the national level (in the form of present, absent, regionally extinct, possibly extinct or non‐native). This work was attainable by incorporating both published and unpublished data, as well as knowledge from a large set of taxonomists and ecologists in both groups. After providing the first National species lists for bees and hoverflies for many countries, we examine the current distributional patterns of these species and designate the countries with highest levels of species richness. We also show that many species are recorded in a single European country, highlighting the importance of articulating European and national conservation strategies. Finally, we discuss how the data provided here can be combined with future trait and Red List data to implement research that will further advance pollinator conservation.

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confidence: 89%

National records of 3000 European bee and hoverfly species: A contribution to pollinator conservation

Reverté,

Miličić,

Ačanski

et al. 2023

Insect Conserv Diversity

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“…Vane traps and target netting can be effective methods for collecting bumble bees (Stephen & Rao, 2005; Strange & Tripodi, 2019); however, only a few studies compared the two methods. Bee bowls are commonly used to capture bees (Droege et al, 2010; Leclercq et al, 2022; Packer & Darla‐West, 2021; Prendergast et al, 2020), and vane traps are a newer method and may be a valuable tool to assess bees. Estimating how the bee assemblages differ among methods is sorely lacking, and will help us develop better methodologies to monitor declining species and compare existing dataset.…”

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Tailoring your bee sampling protocol: Comparing three methods reveals the best approaches to capturing bees

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Tronstad

Hotaling

2023

Agri and Forest Entomology

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1. Bees are prolific, vital pollinators in agricultural and natural settings, but some taxa are declining. Surveying bees is crucial to understand the needs of these taxa; however, we lack a fine-grained understanding of assemblages associated with different sampling methods that would enable us to analyse data range-wide.2. Here we examine the difference in abundance and richness of bees (bee bowls and vane traps only) and bumble bees (genus Bombus; bee bowls, blue vane traps and target netting) sampled with these methods from mixed-grass prairie to alpine habitats in Wyoming, USA.3. We collected four times more bees and twice as many genera of bees in vane traps than bee bowls. Vane traps captured more individuals of abundant genera than bee bowls.4. Bombus species abundance did not vary between vane traps and target netting; however, richness was higher in vane traps. Bee bowls captured few Bombus species.5. Overall, we recommend using vane traps to sample most bees, and a combination of vane traps and target netting to collect bumble bees. We evaluated how three sampling techniques perform when surveying for wild bees, which will aid in identifying declining species as well as monitoring species of conservation concern.

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“…We selected key apple-pollinating bee species (KABS) using two methodologies. Using the CliPS (Climate change and its effect on Pollination Services) study conducted in 2019 across 88 commercial apple orchards in fifteen European countries (Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom) (see Table S1, Leclercq et al (2022) and Leclercq et al, (2023), for site information and the methodology behind their selection). Any species that was found within the top 5% of species visiting the apple blossoms in two or more sites was classified as a KABS.…”

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Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale

Marshall,

Leclercq,

Weekers

et al. 2023

Global Environmental Change

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A comparative analysis of crop pollinator survey methods along a large-scale climatic gradient

Cited by 13 publications

References 49 publications

National records of 3000 European bee and hoverfly species: A contribution to pollinator conservation

National records of 3000 European bee and hoverfly species: A contribution to pollinator conservation

Tailoring your bee sampling protocol: Comparing three methods reveals the best approaches to capturing bees

Potential for climate change driven spatial mismatches between apple crops and their wild bee pollinators at a continental scale

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