Capacity and willingness of farmers and citizen scientists to monitor crop pollinators and pollination services
Capacity and willingness of farmers and citizen scientists to monitor crop pollinators and pollination services
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DOI：
10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00781
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发表时间：
2019-10-01
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4
通讯作者：
Carvell, C.
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作者：
Garratt, M. P. D.;Potts, S. G.;Carvell, C.
昆虫为许多全球重要作物授粉，因此需要快速有效的手段来测量作物授粉媒介和授粉，以支持国家监测计划并允许对农作物的授粉媒介供应和需求进行本地测量。我们测试了用于评估传粉媒介和作物授粉的用户友好协议，以更好地了解一群农民和公民科学家在田间实施此类技术的能力和意愿。我们要求不同的记录员小组，包括农民和农艺师、非专家志愿者和经验丰富的研究人员，完成三种授粉媒介和授粉服务评估技术：横断面行走、盘诱捕和授粉媒介排除和补充授粉。记录员通过问卷调查提供对每种方法的反馈，并对使用不同方法收集的数据进行比较。我们的公众志愿者、农民和农学家能够在苹果、豆类和油菜田中实施所有评估技术。经验丰富的研究人员和公众志愿者比农民和农学家更愿意在样带上记录熊蜂的物种水平。对于某些昆虫类群，记录器和作物类型之间也存在显着的相互作用，这表明在某些作物中，某些类群可能比其他类群更容易记录。我们所有的记录员小组都发现样线和平盘陷阱实施起来简单且令人愉快。我们的非专家志愿者愿意使用传粉媒介排除和补充授粉技术作为更广泛计划的一部分，实施该技术的农民和农学家对更广泛地应用这种方法不太积极。我们已经证明，包括农民和农学家在内的志愿记录员可以参与并能够实施评估传粉媒介和授粉的方法，尽管需要额外的培训以确保准确的物种数据收集。对于更直接和耗时的授粉服务措施，可能需要培训和额外支持，特别是对农民而言。这里开发和测试的工具对于更广泛的传粉媒介监测计划和融入标准农艺实践非常有价值。 (c) 2019 年作者。由 Elsevier B.V 出版。这是一篇基于 CC BY 许可证 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 的开放获取文章。
Insects pollinate many globally important crops and therefore rapid and effective means to measure crop pollinators and pollination are required to support national monitoring schemes and allow localised measurements of pollinator supply and demand to crops. We tested user-friendly protocols for assessing pollinators and pollination in crops to better understand the capacity and willingness of a group of farmers and citizen scientists to implement such techniques in the field. We asked the different recorder groups including farmers and agronomists, non-expert volunteers and experienced researchers to complete three pollinator and pollination service assessment techniques: transect walks, pan trapping and pollinator exclusion and supplementary pollination. Recorders provided feedback on each method through a questionnaire and the data collected using different methods were compared. Our volunteer members of the public, and farmers and agronomists were able to implement all assessment techniques in apple, bean and oilseed rape fields. The experienced researchers and volunteer members of the public were more willing to record bumblebees to species level on transects than the farmers and agronomists. There was also a significant interaction between recorder and crop type for certain insect taxa demonstrating that in certain crops some taxa may be easier to record than others. All our recorder groups found transects and pan traps straightforward and enjoyable to implement. Our non-expert volunteers were willing to use pollinator exclusion and supplementary pollination techniques as part of a wider scheme, the farmers and agronomists who implemented the technique were less positive about applying this method more widely. We have demonstrated that volunteer recorders, including farmers and agronomists, can be engaged and are able to implement methods to assess pollinators and pollination, although additional training is necessary to ensure accurate species data collection. For the more direct and time consuming measures of pollination service, both training and additional support may be needed, particularly for farmers. The tools developed and tested here will be valuable for wider pollinator monitoring schemes and for integration into standard agronomic practices. (c) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).