Historic collections as a tool for assessing the global pollinator crisis

Bartomeus, Ignasi; Stavert, Jamie R.; Ward, Darren; Aguado, Oscar

doi:10.1101/296921

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“…However, such data are still useful to report long-term species occurrences as biases are less likely to affect global trends at greater spatial and temporal scales (Zattara and Aizen 2021). To further limit potential biases, data should be diligently curated and results interpreted with caution (Samy et al 2013, Garc ıa-Rosell o 2015, Bartomeus et al 2018.…”

Section: Study Area and Species Occurrence Recordsmentioning

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Climate change aggravates non‐target effects of pesticides on dragonflies at macroecological scales

Sirois-Delisle

Kerr

2021

Ecological Applications

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Critical gaps in understanding how species respond to environmental change limit our capacity to address conservation risks in a timely way. Here, we examine the direct and interactive effects of key global change drivers, including climate change, land use change, and pesticide use, on persistence of 104 odonate species between two time periods (1980-2002 and 2008-2018) within 100 X 100 km quadrats across the United States using phylogenetic mixed models. Non-target effects of pesticides interacted with higher maximum temperatures to contribute to odonate declines. Closely related species responded similarly to global change drivers, indicating a potential role of inherited traits in species' persistence or decline. Species shifting their range to higher latitudes were more robust to negative impacts of global change drivers generally. Inherited traits related to dispersal abilities and establishment in new places may govern both species' acclimation to global change and their abilities to expand their range limits, respectively. This work is among the first to assess effects of climate change, land use change, and land use intensification together on Odonata, a significant step that improves understanding of multi-species effects of global change on invertebrates, and further identifies conditions contributing to global insect loss.

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Section: Study Area and Species Occurrence Recordsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change aggravates non‐target effects of pesticides on dragonflies at macroecological scales

Sirois-Delisle

Kerr

2021

Ecological Applications

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“…Although there are increasing concerns in this regard, data on the current status and population trends of most pollinating species worldwide remain unknown and generally is taxonomic and geographically biased [31]. Furthermore, information on pollinators in other countries outside Europe and the United States is almost inaccessible.…”

Section: Pollinator Issues Status and Impactmentioning

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Pollination in the Tropics: Role of Pollinator in Guava Production

Omar

ZARİMAN

Abdul

2021

International Journal of Life Sciences and Biotechnology

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Pollinators are the key point for successful pollination in most flowering plants where around 90% of plants depend entirely on them. Majority of the pollinating species are wild, comprising bees, certain species of flies, wasps, moths, butterflies, thrips, beetles, bats, birds and other vertebrates, and among them insect pollinators are the most crucial. Fruit crops benefit in an impressive way from insect pollination, where there is a remarkable improvement both in the productivity and the quality of self-fertilized, self-incompatible and cross-cropping crops worldwide. The pollinators are responsible for assisting these flowering plants with their reproduction. However, the crisis of the pollinator's decline (wild and managed pollinators) which could seriously disrupt pollination activities in the ecosystems has attracted the attention of the world. Despite the growing concern about the decline in pollinators worldwide, some issues remain uncertain as data are often limited and undermined. Guava, Psidium guajava is a marketable fruit in numerous tropical and subtropical regions around the world. There has been a growing interest in pollination studies on guava because of its great economic importance. In guava, self-pollination is evident, however, it benefits greatly from insect pollination. This article aims to provide an overview of tropical pollination and pollination problems that have occurred around the world with a focus on pollination activities in guava.

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“…An important point with this kind of data is that it is able to contain precious information beyond simple occurrence descriptors, as often the collected specimens can provide information on species phenology, species interactions (e.g. what plant were the pollinators visiting) or morphological measures (Bartomeus et al 2018).…”

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“…However, despite the increasing availability of historical records, there is still no global assessment of pollinator trends due to the difficulty of using such data (Bartomeus et al 2018). Nevertheless, for some areas, museum specimens have served to document a decline in bee body size (Oliveira et al 2016) or advances in pollinator phenology .…”

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The need for coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures for pollinator conservation and crop pollination resilience

Bartomeus

Dicks

2018

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There is a growing concern about the status and trends of animal pollinators worldwide. Pollinators provide a key service to both wild plants and crops by mediating their reproduction, so pollinator conservation is of fundamental importance to conservation and to food production. Understanding of the extent of pollinator declines is constrained by the paucity of accessible data, which leads to geographically-and taxonomically-biased assessments. In addition, land conversion to agriculture and intensive agricultural management are two of the main threats to pollinators. This is paradoxical, as crop production depends on pollinators to maximize productivity. There is a need to reconcile conservation and ecosystem service provision in agroecosystems. These challenges require coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures. Specifically, we need better research infrastructures to (i) describe pollinator decline patterns worldwide, (ii) monitor current pollinator trends, and (iii) understand how to enhance pollinators and pollination in agroecosystems. This can be achieved, first, by redoubling the efforts to make historical occurrence data on species occurrences, interactions and traits openly available and easy to integrate across databases. Second, by empowering citizen science to monitor key pollinator species in a coordinated way and standardizing and consolidating long term collection protocols both in natural and agricultural areas. Finally, there is a need to develop multi-actor, localised research infrastructures allowing integration of social, economic and ecological approaches in agriculture. We illustrate how decentralized infrastructures can accelerate the process of co-producing research and integrating data collection across scientists, managers, members of the public, farmers and disciplines. The time is ripe to harness the power of coordinated research infrastructures to understand and mitigate pollinator declines.

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Historic collections as a tool for assessing the global pollinator crisis

Cited by 5 publications

References 45 publications

Climate change aggravates non‐target effects of pesticides on dragonflies at macroecological scales

Climate change aggravates non‐target effects of pesticides on dragonflies at macroecological scales

Pollination in the Tropics: Role of Pollinator in Guava Production

The need for coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures for pollinator conservation and crop pollination resilience

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