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Detecting Insect Pollinator Declines on Regional and Global Scales

Overview of attention for article published in Conservation Biology, December 2012
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Title
Detecting Insect Pollinator Declines on Regional and Global Scales
Published in
Conservation Biology, December 2012
DOI 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01962.x
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Authors

Gretchen Lebuhn, Sam Droege, Edward F. Connor, Barbara Gemmill‐Herren, Simon G. Potts, Robert L. Minckley, Terry Griswold, Robert Jean, Emanuel Kula, David W. Roubik, Jim Cane, Karen W. Wright, Gordon Frankie, Frank Parker

Abstract

Recently there has been considerable concern about declines in bee communities in agricultural and natural habitats. The value of pollination to agriculture, provided primarily by bees, is >$200 billion/year worldwide, and in natural ecosystems it is thought to be even greater. However, no monitoring program exists to accurately detect declines in abundance of insect pollinators; thus, it is difficult to quantify the status of bee communities or estimate the extent of declines. We used data from 11 multiyear studies of bee communities to devise a program to monitor pollinators at regional, national, or international scales. In these studies, 7 different methods for sampling bees were used and bees were sampled on 3 different continents. We estimated that a monitoring program with 200-250 sampling locations each sampled twice over 5 years would provide sufficient power to detect small (2-5%) annual declines in the number of species and in total abundance and would cost U.S.$2,000,000. To detect declines as small as 1% annually over the same period would require >300 sampling locations. Given the role of pollinators in food security and ecosystem function, we recommend establishment of integrated regional and international monitoring programs to detect changes in pollinator communities.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 1%
France 3 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
India 3 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
Other 6 1%
Unknown 555 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 105 18%
Student > Master 101 17%
Researcher 91 16%
Student > Bachelor 72 12%
Other 35 6%
Other 90 15%
Unknown 90 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 314 54%
Environmental Science 118 20%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 2%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 6 1%
Social Sciences 5 <1%
Other 28 5%
Unknown 101 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 81. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 December 2021.
All research outputs
#519,379
of 25,271,884 outputs
Outputs from Conservation Biology
#267
of 4,040 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,568
of 291,259 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Conservation Biology
#3
of 25 outputs
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