Polling the Pollinators: Taking part in the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme

Polling the Pollinators: Taking part in the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme
Natural History Live by Martin Harvey and Claire Carvell

The UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme was established in 2017 and uses a number of different approaches to gather data on how pollinator populations are changing. This talk will introduce the surveys that you can take part in, help you recognise the different groups of pollinators, and show how your results are used to inform research in this area.

Martin Harvey runs the national recording scheme for soldierflies and allies, which includes the bee-flies. He has organised the bee-fly watch project annually since 2016.

Claire Carvell is an Ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. She works on sustainable agriculture, conservation and monitoring of pollinators

Useful links:
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-Pollinator report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES):
https://ipbes.net/assessment-reports/...

National pollinator strategies:
-England’s Pollinator Strategy: https://www.gov.uk/government/publica...
-Scotland’s Pollinator Strategy: https://www.nature.scot/doc/pollinato...
-Wales’s Pollinator Strategy: https://gov.wales/action-plan-pollina...

FIT Count resources
-Full details for FIT Counts and links to the FIT Count app:
https://ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts
-Insect types and flower charts: https://ukpoms.org.uk/flower-charts
-1 km square survey details, and map of squares: https://ukpoms.org.uk/one-km-square-s...

Find out more about PoMS results in research papers and reports:
-PoMS research papers: https://ukpoms.org.uk/research
-PoMS reports: https://ukpoms.org.uk/reports

Related projects:
-X-Polli:Nation https://xpollination.org/
-All-Ireland Pollinator Plan https://pollinators.ie/
-Scottish Pollinators https://scottishpollinators.wordpress...

International projects:
-SPRING in Europe https://www.ufz.de/spring-pollination/
-PoMS in Cyprus https://ris-ky.info/poms-ky
SURPASS in South America https://bee-surpass.org/

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