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@article{Parry:2024:10.1111/1365-2664.14807,
author = {Parry, C and Turnbull, C and Barter, L and Gill, R},
doi = {10.1111/1365-2664.14807},
journal = {Journal of Applied Ecology},
pages = {2873--2883},
title = {Shedding light on pollination deficits: cueing into plant spectral reflectance signatures to monitor pollination delivery across landscapes},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14807},
volume = {61},
year = {2024}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Pollination underlies plant yield, health and reproductive success in agricultural and natural systems worldwide. It is therefore concerning that declining animal pollinator populations compounded by growing demands for food are leading to rising pollination deficits, with globally significant economic and environmental implications.Despite this urgent issue, accurate and scalable tools to quantify and track pollination across useful spatiotemporal scales are lacking. Here, we propose to shed new light on pollination deficits, looking to remote sensing platforms as a transformative mapping and monitoring tool and a solution for pollinator conservation and crop management.Providing a synthesis of our current understanding of pollination-triggered floral senescence and underlying ultrastructural and metabolic changes, we propose how spectral reflectance technologies could be applied to accurately detect pollination events in real-time and at the landscape scale.Synthesis and applications: We highlight where research efforts can be targeted to produce scalable methods for identifying field-relevant bioindicators of pollination. We provide guidance on how spectral imaging accompanied by machine learning and coupled with autonomous operation technologies will enable applications to detect pollination delivery across complex landscapes. Ultimately, such an ecological application will transform our quantitative understanding of pollination services and, by directly linking plant yields and health, will reveal pollination deficits at high resolution to help mitigate risks to food security and ecosystem functioning.
AU - Parry,C
AU - Turnbull,C
AU - Barter,L
AU - Gill,R
DO - 10.1111/1365-2664.14807
EP - 2883
PY - 2024///
SN - 0021-8901
SP - 2873
TI - Shedding light on pollination deficits: cueing into plant spectral reflectance signatures to monitor pollination delivery across landscapes
T2 - Journal of Applied Ecology
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14807
UR - https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14807
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/115080
VL - 61
ER -
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