Standardized European monitoring of plant-pollinator interactions

NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR POLLINATOR MONITORING

Interactions between plants and pollinators shape how both respond to environmental drivers, and are critical to our food security and for maintaining ecosystem services offered by wild plants.

A standardized monitoring throughout Europe would allow for trends in pollinators and in the ecosystem service of pollination to be detected in near time, allowing for rapid management interventions.

Objectives

CAMERA TRAPS

We use new, non-lethal technology to capture images of pollinators on flowers in the field using time-lapse cameras and deep learning to identify pollinators.