Plant-pollinator interactions, which play a central role in the functioning of all ecosystems, including in farmland, are likely to be greatly altered by global change, but these changes remain poorly understood because they are often studied in isolation, either for plants or for pollinators, and with relatively little international coordination, except for certain groups (butterflies) or ecosystems (forests). This lack of knowledge can be a major obstacle to the conservation of plants and their pollinators. The symposium will bring together representatives of the main European structured schemes for the monitoring of plants, pollinators and their interactions. It will be an opportunity to share existing results, identify challenges to analyse available data further, and discuss prospects for improving, developing and extending such monitoring on a European scale, e.g. using automatic identification methods using sound or image analysis.
The symposium is in English.
Organizers: Emmanuelle Porcher and Gabrielle Martin.
Speakers:
- Nicolas Deguines, SPIPoll, France
- Bodil Ehlers & Christian Daamgard, Novana, Denmark
- Jérôme Frei & Tobias Roth, Biodiversity Monitoring Switzerland, Switzerland
- Pieter de Frenne, forestREplot, Belgium
- María-Begoña García, Adopta una planta, Spain
- Ute Jandt, EuropaBON & sPlot, Germany
- Alexis Joly & Pierre Bonnet, Pl@ntNet, France
- Gabrielle Martin, Vigie-flore, France
- Denis Michez, EU pollinator monitoring schemes, Belgium
- Oliver Pescott, National Plant Monitoring Scheme, United Kingdom
- Don Waller, American datasets from forestREplot, USA