OBServ

Open library of pollinator Biodiversity and ecosystem Services scenarios

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Coordinator: Ignasi Bartomeus (EBD-CSIC)
Partner: Lucas Garibaldi (URN)
Partner: Rachael Winfree (Rutgers)
Partner: David Kleijn (Wageningen)
Partner: Ferdinando Villa (BC3)

The OBServ project OBServ aims to co-develop a user-friendly open library of pollinator biodiversity and ecosystem service models which can be used to deliver local and global predictive maps based on different environmental scenarios. In order to achieve this we will specifically (i) capture stakeholder needs and broader socio-economic dimensions of biodiversity, (ii) expand biodiversity models beyond species richness, and (iii) compare and validate predictions of data- driven, statistical and mechanistic biodiversity models.

The Team:

What do we do at OBServ?

The Open library of pollinator models

You can run our models in an easy an intuitive web application thanks to BC3 team. check it out: https://observ.integratedmodelling.org/modeler/?app=observ_app#/login and whatch our video showcasing how it works

Papers published

• Bartomeus, I. and Dicks, L.V., 2019. The need for coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures for pollinator conservation and crop pollination resilience. Environmental Research Letters, 14(4), p.045017. link
• Garibaldi, L.A., Sáez, A., Aizen, M.A., Fijen, T. and Bartomeus, I., 2020. Crop pollination management needs flower‐visitor monitoring and target values. Journal of Applied Ecology, 57(4), pp.664-670. link
• Reilly, J.R., Artz, D.R., Biddinger, D., Bobiwash, K., Boyle, N.K., Brittain, C., Brokaw, J., Campbell, J.W., Daniels, J., Elle, E. and Ellis, J.D., 2020. Crop production in the USA is frequently limited by a lack of pollinators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1931), p.20200922. link
  
• Fijen, T. 2020. Mass‐migrating bumblebees: An overlooked phenomenon with potential far‐reaching implications for bumblebee conservation. Journal of Applied Ecology. 00: 1– 7 Link
  
• Garibaldi, LA, Oddi, FJ, Miguez, FE, Bartomeus, I, et al. Working landscapes need at least 20% native habitat. Conservation Letters. 2020;e12773. Link
  
• Zamorano, J., Bartomeus, I., Grez, A.A. and Garibaldi, L.A. (2020), Field margin floral enhancements increase pollinator diversity at the field edge but show no consistent spillover into the crop field: a meta‐analysis. Insect Conserv Divers, 13: 519-531. Link
  
• Blasi, Bartomeus, Bommarco, Gagic, Garratt, Holzschuh, Kleijn, Lindström, Olsson, Polce, Potts, Rundlöf, Scheper, Smith, Steffan-Dewenter, Clough. 2021. Evaluating predictive performance of models explaining wild bee pollinator abundance in a mass-flowering crops. Ecography, 44: 525-536. Link
  
• Allen-Perkins, Magrach, Dainese, Garibaldi, Kleijn, Rader, Reilly, Winfree, … , Bartomeus. 2021. CropPol: A dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination. Ecology 103( 3): e3614. Link
  
• Fijen and Wallis de Vries. 2021. Kunnen vlindertellingen de stand van bijen en zweefvliegen voorspellen? Vlinders , Volume 36 - Issue 3 p. 14- 16 Link
  
• Magrach, Giménez-García, Allen-Perkins, Garibaldi, Bartomeus. 2022. Increasing crop richness and reducing field sizes provide higher yields to pollinator-dependent crops. Journal of Applied Ecology, 60, 77– 90 Link
  
• Garibaldi LA, Pérez‐Méndez N, Cordeiro GD, Hughes A, Orr M, Alves‐dos‐Santos I, Freitas BM, Freitas de Oliveira F, LeBuhn G, Bartomeus I, Aizen MA. 2021. Negative impacts of dominance on bee communities: Does the influence of invasive honey bees differ from native bees? Ecology 102( 12):e03526. Link

In prepration:

• Fijen, T.P.M., Nabaes Jodar, D, Garibaldi, L.A., Winfree, R., Kostic, K, Bartomeus, I, Kleijn, D. Farmers and citizens value pollinators differently – a quantitative approach in four countries. In prep.

• Turo K. J., Reilly J. R., Fjien, T., Magrach A., Giménez-García A., Winfree R. A global assessment of pollinator limitation in agriculture systems: Prevalence and risks. In prep.

• Segre, Kleijn, Bartomeus, Wallis De Vries, de Jong, van der Schee, Román, Fijen. Butterflies are not a robust bioindicator for assessing pollinator communities. In prep.

• Domínguez-Garcia, Molina, Godoy, Bartomeus. Interaction network structure predicts species temporal persistence in empirical plant-pollinator communities (Submitted).

• Oddi, Magrach, Márquez Torres, Pompeu, Balbi, Villa, Garibaldi. Plataformas de modelado de servicios ecosistémicos: el norte de lacPatagonia como un ejemplo de aplicación (Submitted).

• Giménez-García, Allen-Perkins, Bartomeus, Balbi, Knapp, Hevia, Woodcock, Smagghe, Miñarro, Eeraerts, Colville, Hipólito, Cavigliasso, Nates-Parra, Herrera, Cusser, Simmons, Wolters, Jha, Freitas, Horgan, Artz, Sidhu, Otieno, Boreux, Biddinger, Klein, Joshi, Stewart, Albrecht, Nicholson, O’Reilly, Petsersen, Crowder, Burns, Nabaes Jodar, Garibaldi, Sutter, Dupont, Dalsgaard, da Encarnação Coutinho, Lázaro, Andersson, Raine, Krishnan, Dainese, van der Werf, Smith, and Magrach. Pollination supply models from local to global scale. (Submitted)

• Reilly, JR, Bartomeus, I, Simpson, D, Allen-Perkins, A, Garibaldi, L, Winfree, R. Wild insects and honey bees are equally important to crop yields in a global analysis. (Submitted).

• Nabaes Jodar D. N., Hipólito J., Zaragoza-Trello C., Oliveira da Silva F., Magalhaes-Freitas B., Viana B., Blande N., Souza T., Pires C., Velado-Alonso E., Bartomeus I., Garibaldi L. A. (2023). Biodiversity-inclusive agricultural practices and their dependence on farmer characteristics in South America. (In prep)

• Oddi et al. TBA [scenarios]. In prep.

News

• The Open Library of Pollination Models is in beta version!
  
• Several members of OBServ presented thier work at ESA2022 in Montreal, Canada.
  
• Ignasi Bartomeus presents CropPol at FAO meeting.
  
• Twitter chat about pollination services.
  
• Our 2020 anual meeting was all virtual due to the pandemic, but it was a success!
  
• We are launching a Global Crop Pollintion Database
  
• OBServ was highly represented at ECOFLOR 2020
  
• See a demo of the amaizing kLab environemnt that we will be using: link
  
• Group photo of our kick-off meeting:
  
  Featuring Rachael Winfree, James Rilley, Ignasi Bartomeus, Ainhoa Magrach, Ferdinando Villa, David Kleijn, Lucas Garibaldi and Thijs Fijen.

How to acknowledge OBServ: “This research was funded through the 2017-2018 Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA joint call for research proposals, under the BiodivScen ERA-Net COFUND programme, and with the funding organisations AEI, NWO, ECCyT and NSF”

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