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Improving urban habitat management for insect pollinators and people

改善昆虫传粉者和人类的城市栖息地管理

基本信息

批准号：
NE/M006956/1
负责人：
Katherine Baldock
金额：
$ 21.92万
依托单位：
University of Bristol
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FM006956%2F1
关键词：
Improving urban habitat management insect

项目摘要

This fellowship will improve the value of UK urban areas for insect pollinators by working with important stakeholder groups including urban land managers, policymakers, conservation practitioners, business, academic researchers and the landscape industry. While nature reserves and farmland have many pollinator initiatives in place, urban areas do not despite supporting many pollinator species.Why the work is importantInsects such as bumblebees, hoverflies and butterflies pollinate crops and wild flowers providing an important ecosystem service. Pollinator conservation is important for global food security and the value of pollination services by animals is estimated at £129bn per year [1]. Reported declines in insect pollinators have serious implications for food production [2]. Concern over pollinator declines is high on policy agendas; Defra will publish a National Pollinator Strategy in July 2014 and a Welsh Pollinators Action Plan was published in 2013. One of six core areas of Defra's Strategy specifically addresses pollinator-friendly management of towns, cities and public land. Our research shows that urban areas can support important pollinator communities, provide connecting habitat across the wider landscape and pollination services for urban food production [3,4]. Safeguarding biodiversity across the UK landscape is a key government priority [5,6] with planning authorities required to protect priority species, including pollinators, as well as minimise impacts on biodiversity and provide net gains where possible [7]. Pollinator services will be the first fast-track assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.ContextThe fellowship will build on research carried out during the 'Urban Pollinators: their Ecology and Conservation' project, funded by the Insect Pollinators Initiative (NERC, BBSRC, Defra, Scottish Government and The Wellcome Trust). I was the lead postdoctoral researcher and co-ordinated all aspects of the research (2011-14). The project studied pollinators in replicate cities, farms and nature reserves, sampled 700 sites in four cities to assess the suitability of urban habitats for pollinators and planted 60 pollen and nectar-rich flower meadows to examine their benefit for pollinators. The KE activities will draw more widely on other relevant urban research and the expertise of researchers in the eight other Insect Pollinators Initiative projects. I will also build on Lynn Dicks' NERC KE Fellowship (2011-14) by applying her Delivery Group approach to specifically address pollinator conservation in urban landscapes. Dicks' fellowship focused on pollinator conservation in rural and agricultural landscapes; the proposed fellowship specifically targets urban areas.Fellowship KE programmeDuring this three-year fellowship I will apply KE processes to improve the management of UK urban areas for insect pollinators and promote the uptake of pollinator friendly management practices. Urban habitats are a complex mosaic of public and privately-owned land and six work packages will bring KE to a broad spectrum of stakeholders: i) incorporation of research findings into policy recommendations, ii) establishment of a stakeholders' Urban Pollinator Conservation Delivery Group to identify and address priority knowledge needs, iii) review, workshop and trials on road verge and amenity grassland management, iv) development of a pollinator lawn mix in collaboration with industry, v) promoting uptake of pollinator-friendly habitat management by private business via demonstration sites and vi) producing case studies on initiatives developed in Bristol to apply nationally.Refs: [1] Gallai et al. 2008 Ecol Econ; [2] Breeze et al. 2014 PLoS ONE; [3] Baldock et al. in review Proc Roy Soc B; [4] Baldock et al. in prep; [5] Defra 2011 The Natural Choice: securing the value of nature; [6] Defra 2011 Biodiversity 2020; [7] DCLG 2012 National Planning Policy Framework

该奖学金将通过与包括城市土地管理者，政策制定者，保护从业者，企业，学术研究人员和景观行业在内的重要利益相关者群体合作，提高英国城市地区对昆虫授粉者的价值。自然保护区和农田中有许多传粉者，而城市地区却没有，尽管有许多传粉者物种。为什么这项工作很重要昆虫，如熊蜂、食蚜蝇和蝴蝶为农作物和野花授粉，提供重要的生态系统服务。传粉者保护对全球粮食安全至关重要，动物授粉服务的价值估计为每年1290亿英镑[1]。据报道，昆虫传粉者的减少对粮食生产产生了严重影响[2]。对传粉媒介减少的关注是政策议程的重点; Defra将于2014年7月发布国家传粉媒介战略，威尔士传粉媒介行动计划于2013年发布。Defra战略的六个核心领域之一具体涉及对城镇、城市和公共土地进行有利于授粉者的管理。我们的研究表明，城市地区可以支持重要的传粉者群落，为更广泛的景观提供连接栖息地，并为城市粮食生产提供传粉服务[3，4]。保护整个英国景观的生物多样性是政府的一个关键优先事项[5，6]，规划部门需要保护优先物种，包括传粉媒介，并尽量减少对生物多样性的影响，并在可能的情况下提供净收益[7]。传粉者服务将是生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间小组的第一个快速评估项目。背景该研究金将建立在“城市传粉者：其生态和保护”项目期间进行的研究基础上，该项目由昆虫传粉者倡议（NERC，BBSRC，Defra，苏格兰政府和Wellcome Trust）资助。我是首席博士后研究员，并协调研究的各个方面（2011-14）。该项目研究了复制城市，农场和自然保护区的传粉者，在四个城市的700个地点取样，以评估城市栖息地对传粉者的适宜性，并种植了60个花粉和花蜜丰富的花草地，以研究它们对传粉者的好处。KE活动将更广泛地利用其他相关的城市研究和其他八个昆虫传粉者倡议项目的研究人员的专业知识。我还将建立在林恩迪克斯的NERC KE奖学金（2011-14），通过应用她的交付小组的方法，专门解决城市景观中的传粉者保护。迪克斯的奖学金集中在农村和农业景观的传粉者保护;拟议的奖学金专门针对城市地区。奖学金KE programmeDuring这三年的奖学金，我将适用KE过程，以改善英国城市地区的昆虫传粉者的管理，并促进传粉者友好的管理措施的吸收。城市栖息地是公共和私人土地的复杂镶嵌，六个工作包将把KE带给广泛的利益相关者：i）将研究结果纳入政策建议，ii）建立利益相关者的城市传粉者保护交付小组，以确定和解决优先知识需求，iii）审查，研讨会和试验道路边缘和美化草地管理，iv）与行业合作开发传粉者草坪混合物，v）通过示范点促进私营企业采用传粉者友好型栖息地管理，vi）对布里斯托开发的倡议进行案例研究，以在全国范围内应用。参考文献：[1] Gallai et al. 2008 Ecol Econ; [2] Breeze et al. 2014 PLoS ONE;[3]巴尔多克等人正在审查Proc Roy Soc B; [4]巴尔多克等人正在准备; [5] Defra 2011自然选择：保护自然的价值; [6] Defra 2011生物多样性2020; [7] DCLG 2012国家规划政策框架