Rapid assessment of insect pollination services to inform decision-making.
Authors
Breeze, Tom D
Cole, Lorna J
Garratt, Michael PD
Kleijn, David
Kunin, Bill
Michez, Denis
O'Connor, Rory
Ollerton, Jeff
Paxton, Robert J
Poppy, Guy M
Potts, Simon G
Senapathi, Deepa
Shaw, Rosalind
Dicks, Lynn V
Peh, Kelvin S-H
Publication Date
2022-08Journal Title
Conserv Biol
ISSN
0888-8892
Publisher
Wiley
Language
en
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Article
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Ratto, F., Breeze, T. D., Cole, L. J., Garratt, M. P., Kleijn, D., Kunin, B., Michez, D., et al. (2022). Rapid assessment of insect pollination services to inform decision-making.. Conserv Biol https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13886
Abstract
Pollinator declines have prompted efforts to assess how land-use change affects insect pollinators and pollination services in agricultural landscapes. Yet many tools to measure insect pollination services require substantial landscape-scale data and technical expertise. In expert workshops, 3 straightforward methods (desk-based method, field survey, and empirical manipulation with exclusion experiments) for rapid insect pollination assessment at site scale were developed to provide an adaptable framework that is accessible to nonspecialist with limited resources. These methods were designed for TESSA (Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-Based Assessment) and allow comparative assessment of pollination services at a site of conservation interest and in its most plausible alternative state (e.g., converted to agricultural land). We applied the methods at a nature reserve in the United Kingdom to estimate the value of insect pollination services provided by the reserve. The economic value of pollination services provided by the reserve ranged from US$6163 to US$11,546/year. The conversion of the reserve to arable land would provide no insect pollination services and a net annual benefit from insect-pollinated crop production of approximately $1542/year (US$24∙ha-1 ∙year-1 ). The methods had wide applicability and were readily adapted to different insect-pollinated crops: rape (Brassica napus) and beans (Vicia faba) crops. All methods were rapidly employed under a low budget. The relatively less robust methods that required fewer resources yielded higher estimates of annual insect pollination benefit.
Keywords
METHOD, dependency ratio, ecosystem services, exclusion experiment, field beans, insect pollinators, oilseed rape, TESSA, visitation frequency, colza, experimento de exclusión, frecuencia de visita, haba común, índice de dependencia, insectos polinizadores, servicios ambientales, 依赖率, 生态系统服务, 排除性实验, 蚕豆, 昆虫授粉者, 油菜, 生态系统服务站点评估工具包(TESSA), 访花频率
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NERC (NE/N014472/2)
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cobi13886
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13886
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/334759
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