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Report2024Peer reviewedOpen access

Refined proposal for an EU pollinator monitoring scheme

Potts, S.G.; Bartomeus, I.; Biesmeijer, K.; et al.

Abstract

This report presents refined options for an EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (EU PoMS), based on the work of a technical expert group comprising 26 international experts from 12 countries, with members being representatives of universities, research institutes and NGOs. The work presented here was produced during the second part of the STING project (Science and Technology for Pollinating Insects, running from 2022 to 2024). It provides updated methodological options for the standardised monitoring of wild pollinators (bees, hoverflies, butterflies and moths) for the core scheme of the EU PoMS, taking into consideration the data and knowledge generated by the SPRING (Strengthening Pollinator Recovery through Indicators and Monitoring) and other projects. It also provides a refined proposal for a General Pollinator Indicator to support inter alia a legally binding target on reversing pollinators’ decline, as well as refined options for a Farmland Pollinator Indicator. The report presents options for data management and models to process and harmonise pollinator data, as well as options for future developments of the scheme (including emerging technologies and genomic monitoring). This work supports Priority I of the revised EU Pollinators Initiative, which aims at improving knowledge of pollinator decline, its causes and consequences, and entails the development of a comprehensive European pollinator monitoring system and indicators.

Keywords

biodiversity; common agricultural policy; DNA; economic consequence; environmental impact; environmental monitoring; EU policy - national policy; floriculture; honey; insect; pollinator; proposal (EU); report; research method

Published in

EUR (Luxembourg)
2024, number: JRC138660ISBN: 978-92-68-21329-2Publisher: European Commission