{"id":266,"date":"2017-06-14T18:38:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/?p=266"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:43:50","slug":"making-nature-counts-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/engagement-and-impact\/making-nature-counts-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Making nature counts count"},"content":{"rendered":"
Insect pollinators such as bees and hoverflies are critical components of our natural ecosystems, providing important crop pollination services. How their populations are changing in the UK, as they face climate change, disease and agricultural intensification, is now better understood thanks to the National Pollinator and Pollination Monitoring Framework (NPPMF).<\/div>\n
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The crop pollination component of NPPMF was project-managed by Dr Michael Garratt, a senior research fellow in the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Division. The project \u2013 the first of its kind \u2013 designed and tested a pollinator monitoring scheme, adopting a collaborative, stakeholder-driven approach involving citizen scientists, academics, NGOs and the government and meeting a key deliverable of the government\u2019s National Pollinator Strategy.<\/p>\n

The project helped consolidate the university\u2019s standing as the UK leader in crop pollination research. It engaged the citizen science community, informed land management and policy decision-making to support the conservation of pollinators, and was presented at the EU SuperB Sustainable Pollination in Europe AGM and Royal Entomological Society Pollination Special Interest Group meeting. The NPPMF also gained high profile recognition when it was cited in Science.<\/p>\n

Shortlisted for the University Research Engagement and Impact Awards 2017<\/p>\n

First published: June 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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