Linking agriculture and land use change to pollinator populations
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leeds
Department Name: Inst of Integrative & Comparative Biolog
Abstract
There is growing evidence that both domestic honeybees and wild pollinators are in decline in Britain, as are the wildflowers that they both use for food. We expect these declines are linked, but there is little evidence to demonstrate what the links are, and what can be done to halt or reverse them. Among the most likely explanations for these declines are changes in the way the British landscape is managed: loss of natural habitats and increasingly intensive agricultural practices. We will test for links between such land use changes and the condition of British pollinator populations. One aspect of our work involves examining how pollinator populations and land use have changed over time, to test whether pollinator losses are correlated with landscape changes. This is made difficult because there is no national monitoring programme for pollinators, and so we only have scattered information about pollinator changes. To overcome this problem, we will take two contrasting approaches: (1) comparing how land use has changed in areas where we know pollinator populations either have declined markedly or have not done so, and (2) repeating historical surveys of pollinators in sites chosen to have undergone different amounts of subsequent land use change. A second focus of our work will be on how current land uses link to current honeybee, wild pollinator and wildflower populations. To do so, we need to survey pollinators and wildflowers in sites with very different sets of conditions in a carefully controlled manner. First we will use existing datasets to estimate likely flower densities in different habitats and regions, as well as the distribution of habitat types (and changes in them), various aspects agricultural management (including pesticide usage), and the density of domestic honeybee colonies. We will then choose a set of 96 sites in six clusters across Britain, with sites chosen to represent a wide range of flower resources, different natural and agricultural habitats, different levels of pesticide use, and different numbers of domestic honeybee hives. We will survey wildflower and pollinator populations at these sites, observe how well flowers are pollinated, and test how well honeybees and one wild bee species perform when placed at the different sites. This will be the largest scale survey of flower resources and pollinator communities ever performed. We will then examine how well pollinator populations can be predicted from flower densities, and how both are affected by various aspects of land use and agricultural management. The final aspect of our work will be to apply these findings to make recommendations as to how both domestic honeybees and wild pollinators can best be protected. This will build off of the results of the previous sections, which will provide links between specific land management options and pollinator stocks. Such findings could be of use to farmers, beekeepers, conservationists and policy makers, and so we will involve all four of these communities in the project, involving representatives of each on a project Steering Committee. We will hold workshops both at the beginning of the project (to get ideas for additional issues to study) and at the end of the project (to discuss our findings and their policy implications). We will edit fact-sheets and briefing papers for these different communities, and distribute them in specialist magazines and through a project web site. We will also make information available on a public website, including teaching materials and other resources about pollinator declines.
Technical Summary
There is growing evidence of declines in honeybees and wild pollinators, and parallel declines in animal-pollinated plants. Many likely drivers of these changes involve shifts in land use and agricultural practice. We will examine links between pollinators, floral resources and land management, using both historical analyses and current observations. Historical analyses will involve (1) assessing land-use change in sites with contrasting recent pollinator dynamics, and (2) resurveys of pollinators in sites with contrasting land use changes. We will calculate land cover change for sites identified in a recent analysis as having experienced contrasting shifts in bee and in hoverfly diversity. Land cover change will be assessed relative to 1930's, 1990 and 2000 surveys. Land use change will also be calculated for sites where pollinator surveys were performed pre-1980; matched sets with contrasting changes will be resurveyed using original and standard protocols. Maps of current land management will be derived from landcover, crop, grazing, AES and pesticide datasets. Pollinator and floral resource surveys will be conducted in 96 contrasting landscapes within 6 regional clusters over 2 years. Honeybee and solitary bee colonies will be set out to test landscape effects on foraging and colony growth, and pollination services assessed on test plant arrays and wildflowers. Data will be analysed with Bayesian network methods to assess the importance of different variables in explaining floral resources, honeybee performance, wild pollinator status and pollination services. Potential mitigation options will be explored throughout the research, and workshops will be held at the beginning and end of the project to explore mitigation-related issues and to promulgate results. Project recommendations will be drafted for stakeholder communities (farmers, beekeepers, conservationists, policy-makers) and disseminated through specialist magazines and electronically.
Planned Impact
We expect the proposed research to have high scientific impact, high policy relevance, and to be of high interest to the general public. Scientific impact: Our proposed research will provide an important step forward in pollinator research, providing the strongest test to date of the role of land management and agriculture in bee declines. Our work will be by far the largest scale pollinator habitat and floral resource inventory ever carried out. We anticipate at least a dozen high impact publications will result from the work, ranging from highly applied analyses of drivers of honeybee colony mortality and wild pollinator diversity declines to more theoretical discussions of plant-pollinator interaction networks. Policy relevance: Our proposed research has a high potential for direct application: * We will assess what aspects of land use, agricultural practice (including pesticide usage), floral resources and competing pollinator densities are associated with honey production and colony mortality in domesticated honeybee stocks. * We will assess the impact of land use, agricultural management practices, floral resourses and competing honeybee densities on wild pollinator density and diversity, with special attention to the role of current mitigation practices (agri-environmental schemes) and to designing potential future mitigation methods Concerns about the viability of honeybee stocks and wild pollinator populations have been the subject of growing national, European and global policy concern in recent years. Our work will assess the importance of agricultural practices and land management in driving these losses, and as such, has a high potential impact. We expect our results will be directly relevant to policy formation, in particular to the development and assessment of agri-environmental schemes, of ESA guidelines, and other land-management related policy initiatives. Issues of land use and agricultural management have a broad policy interest beyond the specific issues affecting pollinators (e.g. CAP reform, Habitats initiative), and our work will also contribute to this much broader policy discussion. Public interest: The proposed research is of high potential public interest: both pollinating insects and the flowers upon which they feed are widely valued by the public, and there is great interest in the maintenance of the British rural environment more generally. Thus we expect the results of our work to be of interest to the press, and through them to the public at large. As a team, we have substantial experience dealing with journalists, and all five participating institutions maintain active press offices, with whom we have good relations. We will also make available information about the project and about pollinator losses more broadly, including primary and secondary school teaching materials, through a user-friendly public website. Impact actions: Our work will be of direct relevance to farmers (and other land managers), beekeepers, conservationists and policy makers. To enhance our engagement with these groups, we will establish a project Steering Committee, involving representatives from relevant stakeholder organisations. A broader set of stakeholders will be involved in two project workshops, at the start and close of the project. Project findings will be disseminated through leaflets in specialist magazines and though a public website.
Publications
Baldock KC
(2015)
Where is the UK's pollinator biodiversity? The importance of urban areas for flower-visiting insects.
in Proceedings. Biological sciences
Baldock KCR
(2019)
A systems approach reveals urban pollinator hotspots and conservation opportunities.
in Nature ecology & evolution
Barwell LJ
(2015)
Measuring ß-diversity with species abundance data.
in The Journal of animal ecology
Baude M
(2016)
Historical nectar assessment reveals the fall and rise of floral resources in Britain.
in Nature
Breeze T
(2020)
Pollinator monitoring more than pays for itself
in Journal of Applied Ecology
Budge GE
(2015)
Evidence for pollinator cost and farming benefits of neonicotinoid seed coatings on oilseed rape.
in Scientific reports
Carvalheiro LG
(2014)
The potential for indirect effects between co-flowering plants via shared pollinators depends on resource abundance, accessibility and relatedness.
in Ecology letters
Carvalheiro LG
(2013)
Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW-European pollinators and plants.
in Ecology letters
Dicks LV
(2015)
How much flower-rich habitat is enough for wild pollinators? Answering a key policy question with incomplete knowledge.
in Ecological entomology
Evans A
(2018)
Indirect effects of agricultural pesticide use on parasite prevalence in wild pollinators
in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Gardner E
(2021)
Field boundary features can stabilise bee populations and the pollination of mass-flowering crops in rotational systems
in Journal of Applied Ecology
Gardner E
(2020)
Reliably predicting pollinator abundance: Challenges of calibrating process-based ecological models
in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Gillespie M
(2017)
A method for the objective selection of landscape-scale study regions and sites at the national level
in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Gillespie MAK
(2022)
Landscape-scale drivers of pollinator communities may depend on land-use configuration.
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Herbertsson L
(2021)
Bees increase seed set of wild plants while the proportion of arable land has a variable effect on pollination in European agricultural landscapes
in Plant Ecology and Evolution
Hicks DM
(2016)
Food for Pollinators: Quantifying the Nectar and Pollen Resources of Urban Flower Meadows.
in PloS one
Image M
(2022)
Does agri-environment scheme participation in England increase pollinator populations and crop pollination services?
in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Image M
(2022)
Which interventions contribute most to the net effect of England's agri-environment schemes on pollination services?
in Landscape Ecology
Jeliazkov A
(2022)
Sampling and modelling rare species: Conceptual guidelines for the neglected majority.
in Global change biology
Kunin W
(2018)
Upscaling biodiversity: estimating the species-area relationship from small samples
in Ecological Monographs
Kunin WE
(2013)
Publications: No bias behind pollinator research.
in Nature
Senapathi D
(2016)
Landscape impacts on pollinator communities in temperate systems: evidence and knowledge gaps
in Functional Ecology
Senapathi D
(2015)
The impact of over 80 years of land cover changes on bee and wasp pollinator communities in England.
in Proceedings. Biological sciences
Senapathi D
(2015)
Pollinator conservation-the difference between managing for pollination services and preserving pollinator diversity
in Current Opinion in Insect Science
Shackelford G
(2013)
Comparison of pollinators and natural enemies: a meta-analysis of landscape and local effects on abundance and richness in crops.
in Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Title | "Every Last Mouthful" exhibition |
Description | A modern illuminated manuscript exhibition, to be displayed at the Richard Attenborough Art Centre, Leicester & Nottingham, 2015-16. Funded by an Arts Council England grant. Includes interviews and photographs from the project. |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Impact | Improved public understanding of pollinator diversity and conservation issues, in a novel format. |
URL | http://chatwinmartin.com |
Description | We have resurveyed twenty sites with good historical pollinator records, and have documented significant declines in pollinator diversity in 3/4 of them. We have shown that changes in landuse in and around these sites is correlated with pollinator diversity shifts. We have measured nectar and pollen production for 176 of the commonest British insect-pollinated plant species, allowing floral resources to be quantified at landscape scale for the first time. This aspect of the project's findings have allowed us for the first time to assess national scale shifts in nectar production over recent decades. These results have recently been published in Nature, showing a substantial drop in floral resources at a national scale from the 1930s to 1978, followed by a period of stable low resources over the 1980s and 1990s, and an increase in resources in the most recent decade. We have surveyed wild pollinator populations and pollination services in 96 sites across Britain, chosen based on national datasets to differ in four putative drivers of wild pollinator declines: habitat diversity, floral resources, pesticide pressure and domestic honeybee density. These estimates were ground-truthed in field surveys, showing reasonably good predictive power for most variables, suggesting that similar approaches may be applicable elsewhere. The data analyses of effects on pollinators are still on-going, but results suggest strong geographical, environmental, and land-management correlates. The best fitting models suggest very different levels of impacts of the 4 drivers considered, and indeed contrasting effects on different pollinator groups (bees vs. hoverflies). However, it would be premature to detail the findings before publication. |
Exploitation Route | Initial results of our project have fed into the process of drafting a National Pollinator Strategy document. Our field surveys are being used by a recently completed Defra-funded project as a model for a National Pollinator and Pollination Monitoring Programme. Results of our field surveys and floral resource estimates have been used by Natural England in the process of designing agri-environmental management options post CAP-reform. Our floral resource assay results have the potential to assist the design of gardens and wildflower plantings for pollinator conservation in both urban and rural settings. Collaborative work is being planned with the British Beekeepers Association to develop a public interface to allow access to the database by the general public. |
Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Environment Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | http://www.agriland.leeds.ac.uk/ |
Description | Our publication in Nature has been awarded a prize by the RSPB as the best contribution to conservation science in 2016. Project data continue to be used by researchers, policy makers and managers in designing and evaluating land-management schemes, especially in agricultural settings. Most recently this has involved use by both tNatural England and the National Trust in exploratory "Payment for Ecosystem Services" trials. |
First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment |
Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
Description | National Pollinator Strategy |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | Publication of National Pollinator Strategy, with a substantial list of actions to be implemented. |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/370199/pb14221-national-po... |
Description | Reviewing IPBES reports |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Testimony to Parliamentary Committee |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Contribution to Parliamentary review of insect declines and potential links to food security. |
Description | Are sterols landscape limiting nutrients for wild bees in the UK? |
Amount | £650,280 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/V012282/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2021 |
End | 07/2024 |
Description | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
Amount | Bs.S100,000 (VEF) |
Funding ID | OPP1212006 Broad-scale agricultural pest monitoring in Africa using dual-polarization weather radar |
Organisation | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United States |
Start | 05/2019 |
End | 12/2020 |
Description | DRUID: Drivers and Repercussions of UK Insect Declines |
Amount | £1,995,297 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/V006916/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 12/2024 |
Description | Impact and Innovation fund |
Amount | £17,447 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 19309373 |
Organisation | University of Leeds |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2022 |
End | 07/2023 |
Description | National Pollinator and Pollination Monitoring Programme |
Amount | £95,928 (GBP) |
Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2014 |
End | 01/2016 |
Description | Pollinator Monitoring Research Pattnership |
Amount | £209,881 (GBP) |
Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2017 |
End | 05/2019 |
Description | VOICES: Valuing Orchard and Integrated Crop Ecosystem Services' |
Amount | £712,518 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/P023274/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2017 |
End | 11/2020 |
Title | Site selection protocol |
Description | We developed a method of site selection to allow focal sites to be chosen in a manner that makes them statistically representative of Britain as a whole, while allowing contrasts in (in this case) 4 focal variables to be explored at multiple spatial scales. The stratification was then tested using field collected data -- and was found to work well. The method is being written up for publication. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Similar forms of stratification may be employed in the National Pollinator and Pollination Monitoring Programme, currently under development for Defra. |
Title | Floral nectar database |
Description | We have compiled a dataset of nectar production for 176 British plant species, chosen to represent the commonest animal pollinated species as measured in the CEH Countryside Survey. Nectar production has been assessed per flower, per inflorescence, and per unit vegetative cover. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Portions of the database has already been accessed by several other research groups and NGOs. We plan to apply for funding to set up a public web-interface to ease access to the data. |
Title | IPI Specimen archive |
Description | Specimen collection: bees and hoverflies captured during our field campaign. These will be curated by the Natural History Museum and made available as a resource for future researchers. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | None yet. Material transfer agreement has been signed. |
Title | Pollinator density assays |
Description | Field surveys of wild pollinator populations in 96 landscapes across Britain, plus an additional 24 sites with good historic pollinator samples. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Data are being used in the design and power-testing of a proposed National Pollinator and Pollination Monitoring scheme. |
Description | BES Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Talk was part of a special session on insect pollination research and sparked questions and discussion afterwards, including a seperate "speed science" interaction session, where small groups discussed the implications of the research presented for pollinators and policy. Following the talk, several academics expressed an interest in learning more about the methods and the forthcoming results. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | BES SFE Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Questions and discussion afterwards Nectar database asked for sharing |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Cafe Scientifique talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public talk, followed by discussion informed discussions afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Central Association of Bee Keepers (CABK) AGM |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker at the annual general meeting of the Central Association of Beekeepers, London UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Chelsea Flower Show |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Contribution to RHS Environment Exhibit on Ecosystem services Invited exhibition on the role of gardens in ecosystem service provision, involving hydrologists and ecosystem scientists as well as pollination researchers. My role has been to develop the pollination services theme, building upon outcomes of this project (and other related research) Website, leaflets for distribution no actual impacts realised to date |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Conference Presentation INTECOL London 2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | There was a press release associated with my talk that led to requests for interviews by the media including ITV London news and BBC radio Berkshire. The talk itself led to an interesting discussions that were carried on after the session was completed. The talk abstract and subsequent press release gained media attention. This led to an interview by ITV London news and a live phone-in interview on BBC radio Berkshire in August 2013. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://eventmobi.com/intecol2013/ |
Description | ECCB 2022 conference presentation - Translating agro-ecological approaches from one region to another : The importance of context-based solutions and multi-sector knowledge exchange. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation at ECCB conference in August 2022 at Prague, Czechia titled "Translating agro-ecological approaches from one region to another The importance of context-based solutions and multi-sector knowledge exchange." |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.eccb2022.eu/en/scientific-programme-2 |
Description | Friends of the Earth teleconference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Teleconference between FoE organisers and a core group of pollinator researchers to discuss current findings concerning the impact of the EU restrictions on neonicotinoid pesticide use. My most important impact was to stress the importance of information on how the restrictions have influenced use of other agrichemicals, and the unknown net impact on pollinators. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Global Biosphere Sensing Network workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop to discuss novel technologies for monitoring natural populations and processes, including visual, acoustic, eDNA and radar-based tools for monitoring insects. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Great Yorkshire Show exhibit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public event, focused on Yorkshire region, with an agricultural slant. Exhibit was about insects, their role as ecosystem service providers, and new methods for monitoring them. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | ICCB 2015 conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Over a 100 audience members were present for this presentation and this lead to sparking further research ideas and collaborations |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | INTECOL Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards concerning implications for future policy and channels to disseminate results. None |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | LWEC panel assesing terrestrial biodiversity Report Card |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Minor revisions to the draft text of the report. unknown |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Linking Historic Land-Use Change to Pollinator Communities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk at Royal Entomological Society Annual Conference Talk slides no actual impacts realised to date |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Meetings with POST |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Meetings with Rory O'Connor of the Parliamentary office of Science & Technology to discuss issues relating to an upcoming POSTNote on pollination, Interviews by Rory O'Connor concerning pollination and pollinators. POSTNote no actual impacts realised to date |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | NELMS planning meetings |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | progress towards the development of new farm wildlife package for agri-environmental management, designed in part to enhance pollinator populations. Continuing discussions, which should feed into policy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | National pollinator strategy workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Helped inform draft National Pollinator Strategy. Discussions with Charles Godfray afterwards helped flesh out options for a National Pollinator Monitoring programme. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Oxford "Real Farming" Conference presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and subsequent discussion. I expect that the talk may have influenced the FoE decision to include me in subsequent discussions about neonicotinoid pesticides. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Presentation to Pollination workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | international |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Workshop in bangalore, India UK-India joint research initiative: pollination workshop None no actual impacts realised to date |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | SBS Lunctime seminar series - Can biodiversity conservation & food security needs be balanced? Lessons from smallholder farming systems |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | University of Reading School of Biological Sciences' lunchtime seminar series titled "Can biodiversity conservation & food security needs be balanced? Lessons from smallholder farming systems" Audience were academic staff and students across different schools and interested members of the general public |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Stakeholder workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentations of project results, followed by working groups outlining applications to management of arable agriculture, grazing lands and conservation areas. Ongoing discussions with participating policy-makers and NGOs, feeding into future development of a public database of floral resources. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Stakeholder workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This day long workshop involved the presentation of our preliminary results to a range of interested stakeholders including conservation practitioners, policy makers, academics, landowners and beekeepers. Following the presentations, there was stimulating discussion in some break out sessions in which delegates from a range of backgrounds discussed their view of the implications of our research, and highlighted optimum channels and formats for results dissemination At the end of the workshop, several delegates expressed interest in further information and updates, in data to assist in related activities and encouraged expedient dissemination of the results for the purposes of policy influence. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.agriland.leeds.ac.uk/news/index.php |
Description | Talk at AgriLand project stakeholder workshop, FERA, York, UK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk describing the impact of historic land-use change on insect pollinator communities Requests for further information |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Talk at AgriLand project stakeholder workshop, FERA, York, UK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Threats to UK Insect Pollinators: Challenges for Research n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |