A multi-taxonomic survey to determine the conservation status of native pollinators
The worldwide decline of insects calls for understanding the conservation status of key insect groups at local and regional scales. Pollinators are widely recognized as especially important to native ecosystems and agriculture and their declines have been met with calls for inventory and monitoring....
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| author | Matthew D. Schlesinger Erin L. White Jeffrey D. Corser Bryan N. Danforth Melissa K. Fierke Carmen M. Greenwood Richard G. Hatfield Katie G. Hietala-Henschell Katie G. Hietala-Henschell Jonathan R. Mawdsley Kent P. McFarland Robyn Niver Jerome G. Rozen Maria Van Dyke Timothy G. Howard |
| author_facet | Matthew D. Schlesinger Erin L. White Jeffrey D. Corser Bryan N. Danforth Melissa K. Fierke Carmen M. Greenwood Richard G. Hatfield Katie G. Hietala-Henschell Katie G. Hietala-Henschell Jonathan R. Mawdsley Kent P. McFarland Robyn Niver Jerome G. Rozen Maria Van Dyke Timothy G. Howard |
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| description | The worldwide decline of insects calls for understanding the conservation status of key insect groups at local and regional scales. Pollinators are widely recognized as especially important to native ecosystems and agriculture and their declines have been met with calls for inventory and monitoring. In New York State, we conducted a four-year survey effort to document the distribution and status of key native pollinators in four insect orders: Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, and Lepidoptera. In this paper, we describe the process of designing and implementing the study in the hopes that other jurisdictions could follow a similar model. We combined systematic field inventories, surveys of special habitats, target species surveys, community science observations, and museum and partner data to create a comprehensive look at the distribution of each of 457 species in two time periods (2000 to present and 1999 and earlier). We used the conservation status ranking system developed by NatureServe and generated ranks and a series of distribution maps and phenology charts for each species. We describe the effort needed to carry out the study, as well as reasons for its success and areas for improvement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e5980ab2ca894cad8512dff06b3a10102023-11-18T10:07:58ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution2296-701X2023-11-011110.3389/fevo.2023.12746801274680A multi-taxonomic survey to determine the conservation status of native pollinatorsMatthew D. Schlesinger0Erin L. White1Jeffrey D. Corser2Bryan N. Danforth3Melissa K. Fierke4Carmen M. Greenwood5Richard G. Hatfield6Katie G. Hietala-Henschell7Katie G. Hietala-Henschell8Jonathan R. Mawdsley9Kent P. McFarland10Robyn Niver11Jerome G. Rozen12Maria Van Dyke13Timothy G. Howard14New York Natural Heritage Program, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Albany, NY, United StatesNew York Natural Heritage Program, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Albany, NY, United StatesNew York Natural Heritage Program, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Albany, NY, United StatesDepartment of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United StatesDepartment of Environmental Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United StatesDepartment of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Environmental Science, State University of New York Cobleskill, Cobleskill, NY, United StatesEndangered Species Program, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, OR, United StatesNew York Natural Heritage Program, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Albany, NY, United StatesEndangered Species Program, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, OR, United StatesCooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Program, United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United StatesVermont Atlas of Life, Vermont Center for Ecostudies, Norwich, VT, United StatesNew York Field Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Cortland, NY, United StatesDivision of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United StatesDepartment of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United StatesNew York Natural Heritage Program, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Albany, NY, United StatesThe worldwide decline of insects calls for understanding the conservation status of key insect groups at local and regional scales. Pollinators are widely recognized as especially important to native ecosystems and agriculture and their declines have been met with calls for inventory and monitoring. In New York State, we conducted a four-year survey effort to document the distribution and status of key native pollinators in four insect orders: Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, and Lepidoptera. In this paper, we describe the process of designing and implementing the study in the hopes that other jurisdictions could follow a similar model. We combined systematic field inventories, surveys of special habitats, target species surveys, community science observations, and museum and partner data to create a comprehensive look at the distribution of each of 457 species in two time periods (2000 to present and 1999 and earlier). We used the conservation status ranking system developed by NatureServe and generated ranks and a series of distribution maps and phenology charts for each species. We describe the effort needed to carry out the study, as well as reasons for its success and areas for improvement.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1274680/fullpollinatorconservation statusdistributionsurveybeesflies |
| spellingShingle | Matthew D. Schlesinger Erin L. White Jeffrey D. Corser Bryan N. Danforth Melissa K. Fierke Carmen M. Greenwood Richard G. Hatfield Katie G. Hietala-Henschell Katie G. Hietala-Henschell Jonathan R. Mawdsley Kent P. McFarland Robyn Niver Jerome G. Rozen Maria Van Dyke Timothy G. Howard A multi-taxonomic survey to determine the conservation status of native pollinators Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution pollinator conservation status distribution survey bees flies |
| title | A multi-taxonomic survey to determine the conservation status of native pollinators |
| title_full | A multi-taxonomic survey to determine the conservation status of native pollinators |
| title_fullStr | A multi-taxonomic survey to determine the conservation status of native pollinators |
| title_full_unstemmed | A multi-taxonomic survey to determine the conservation status of native pollinators |
| title_short | A multi-taxonomic survey to determine the conservation status of native pollinators |
| title_sort | multi taxonomic survey to determine the conservation status of native pollinators |
| topic | pollinator conservation status distribution survey bees flies |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1274680/full |
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