How useful are pollinator tools?

Description

Widespread declines of insect pollinators are both a conservation concern and threaten the pollination of wild plants and crops. As a result, a plethora of tools have been created to facilitate decisions relating to insect pollinators and pollination in agricultural landscapes. These tools provide invaluable information that help to understand drivers of insect population changes, as well as to project future population trends because of various actions. However, to date there is no comprehensive list of the different tools available, and there has been no overview of the usability of these tools for decisions. We undertook a systematic map to explore the tools that have been developed to facilitate decisions relating to insect pollinators and/or pollination in agricultural landscapes. We mapped the usability of these tools, focusing on the design, purpose and applicability of the tools. This process identified the current tools and highlighted the knowledge clusters and gaps. We provide recommendations for tool developers based on this.

Period	2023 Sept 14
Event title	GfÖ Annual Meeting 2023 - 52nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland: The Future of Biodiversity – overcoming barriers of taxa, realms and scales
Event type	Conference
Conference number	52
Location	Leipzig, Germany, SaxonyShow on map