Scientific outputs include quantification of the abundance and diversity of four orders of pollinating insects across space and time and European maps of pollinator trends, as well as quantifying changes plant-pollinator interactions, and the degree to which environmental change alters pollinators through changes in plant communities.
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Protocols and pipelines will be co-created with the pre-identified stakeholders that will use them: scientists, research site managers, eLTER, EuropaBON and EEA.
The developed protocol will be tested in the field sites of the PIsfor performance at detecting plant-pollinator interaction change across a variety of ecological gradients, such as land use, restoration, altitude, fragmentation and ecological succession.
Together these case studies allow us to test hypotheseshow well automated methods detect changes in interactions across a wide range of biogeographical settings and types of gradients.
SEPPI will quantify the implementation costs for equipment and labour and in each revision of the protocol will seek ways to reduce these costs.