The need for coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures for pollinator conservation and crop pollination resilience
The need for coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures for pollinator conservation and crop pollination resilience
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DOI：
10.1088/1748-9326/ab0cb5
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发表时间：
2019-04-01
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
Dicks, Lynn V.
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作者：
Bartomeus, Ignasi;Dicks, Lynn V.
人们越来越关注全世界动物传粉媒介的现状和趋势。传粉媒介通过调节野生植物和农作物的繁殖为野生植物和农作物提供关键服务，因此传粉媒介保护对于保护和粮食生产至关重要。由于缺乏可获取的数据，对传粉媒介减少程度的了解受到限制，这导致了评估在地理和分类学上存在偏差。此外，土地转为农业和集约化农业管理是传粉媒介面临的两个主要威胁。这是自相矛盾的，因为作物生产依赖于授粉媒介来最大限度地提高生产力。需要协调农业生态系统的保护和生态系统服务的提供。这些挑战需要协调的跨学科研究基础设施。具体来说，我们需要更好的研究基础设施来（i）描述全球授粉媒介的衰退模式，（ii）监测当前授粉媒介的趋势，以及（iii）了解如何增加农业生态系统中的授粉媒介数量和授粉。首先，可以通过加倍努力公开物种发生、相互作用和性状的历史数据并易于跨数据库集成来实现这一目标。其次，通过授权公民科学以协调的方式监测关键授粉媒介物种，并标准化、巩固和整合自然和农业领域的长期收集协议。最后，需要开发多参与者、本地化的研究基础设施，以便将社会、经济和生态方法整合到农业中。我们阐述了去中心化基础设施如何加速科学家、管理者、公众、农民和学科之间共同开展研究和整合数据收集的进程。利用协调研究基础设施的力量来了解和缓解传粉媒介下降的时机已经成熟。
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 pollinator numbers and pollination in agroecosystems. This can be achieved, first, by redoubling the efforts to make historical 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, consolidating and integrating 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.