Six Steps towards a Spatial Design for Large-Scale Pollinator Surveillance Monitoring
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In: Insects, Vol. 15, No. 4, 229, 04.2024.
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T1 - Six Steps towards a Spatial Design for Large-Scale Pollinator Surveillance Monitoring
AU - Hellwig, Niels
AU - Sommerlandt, Frank M.J.
AU - Grabener, Swantje
AU - Lindermann, Lara
AU - Sickel, Wiebke
AU - Krüger, Lasse
AU - Dieker, Petra
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.
PY - 2024/4
Y1 - 2024/4
N2 - Despite the importance of pollinators to ecosystem functioning and human food production, comprehensive pollinator monitoring data are still lacking across most regions of the world. Policy-makers have recently prioritised the development of large-scale monitoring programmes for pollinators to better understand how populations respond to land use, environmental change and restoration measures in the long term. Designing such a monitoring programme is challenging, partly because it requires both ecological knowledge and advanced knowledge in sampling design. This study aims to develop a conceptual framework to facilitate the spatial sampling design of large-scale surveillance monitoring. The system is designed to detect changes in pollinator species abundances and richness, focusing on temperate agroecosystems. The sampling design needs to be scientifically robust to address questions of agri-environmental policy at the scales of interest. To this end, we followed a six-step procedure as follows: (1) defining the spatial sampling units, (2) defining and delimiting the monitoring area, (3) deciding on the general sampling strategy, (4) determining the sample size, (5) specifying the sampling units per sampling interval, and (6) specifying the pollinator survey plots within each sampling unit. As a case study, we apply this framework to the “Wild bee monitoring in agricultural landscapes of Germany” programme. We suggest this six-step procedure as a conceptual guideline for the spatial sampling design of future large-scale pollinator monitoring initiatives.
AB - Despite the importance of pollinators to ecosystem functioning and human food production, comprehensive pollinator monitoring data are still lacking across most regions of the world. Policy-makers have recently prioritised the development of large-scale monitoring programmes for pollinators to better understand how populations respond to land use, environmental change and restoration measures in the long term. Designing such a monitoring programme is challenging, partly because it requires both ecological knowledge and advanced knowledge in sampling design. This study aims to develop a conceptual framework to facilitate the spatial sampling design of large-scale surveillance monitoring. The system is designed to detect changes in pollinator species abundances and richness, focusing on temperate agroecosystems. The sampling design needs to be scientifically robust to address questions of agri-environmental policy at the scales of interest. To this end, we followed a six-step procedure as follows: (1) defining the spatial sampling units, (2) defining and delimiting the monitoring area, (3) deciding on the general sampling strategy, (4) determining the sample size, (5) specifying the sampling units per sampling interval, and (6) specifying the pollinator survey plots within each sampling unit. As a case study, we apply this framework to the “Wild bee monitoring in agricultural landscapes of Germany” programme. We suggest this six-step procedure as a conceptual guideline for the spatial sampling design of future large-scale pollinator monitoring initiatives.
KW - agroecosystems
KW - biodiversity monitoring
KW - sampling design
KW - sampling method framework
KW - spatial sampling
KW - wild bees
KW - Biology
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U2 - 10.3390/insects15040229
DO - 10.3390/insects15040229
M3 - Comments / Debate / Reports
C2 - 38667359
AN - SCOPUS:85191554423
VL - 15
JO - Insects
JF - Insects
SN - 2075-4450
IS - 4
M1 - 229
ER -