PollMap: a software for crop pollination mapping in agricultural landscapes

Journal of Ecology and Environment

Pinliang Dong¹  Ehsan Rahimi²  Shahindokht Barghjelveh²  Mohammad Mehdi Jahanbakhshian³  Maghsoud Arshadi Pirlar⁴ 

[1] Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas, Denton, USA;Environmental Sciences Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran;Faculty of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran;Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre E ́nergie Matériaux et Télécommunications, Varennes, J3X 1S2, Québec, Canada;

关键词: The Lonsdorf model;    Decision-making;    Bees;    Ecosystem service mapping;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s41610-021-00210-0

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundEcosystem service mapping is an important tool for decision-making in landscape planning and natural resource management. Today, pollination service mapping is based on the Lonsdorf model (InVEST software) that determines the availability of nesting and floral resources for each land cover and estimates pollination according to the foraging range of the desired species. However, it is argued that the Lonsdorf model has significant limitations in estimating pollination in a landscape that can affect the results of this model.ResultsThis paper presents a free software, named PollMap, that does not have the limitations of the Lonsdorf model. PollMap estimates the pollination service according to a modified version of the Lonsdorf model and assumes that only cells within the flight range of bees are important in the pollination mapping. This software is produced for estimating and mapping crop pollination in agricultural landscapes. The main assumption of this software is that in the agricultural landscapes, which are dominated by forest and agriculture ecosystems, forest patches serve only as a nesting habitat for wild bees and the surrounding fields provide floral resources.ConclusionThe present study provided new software for mapping crop pollination in agricultural landscapes that does not have the limitations of the Lonsdorf model. We showed that the use of the Lonsdorf model for pollination mapping requires attention to the limitations of this model, and by removing these limitations, we will need new software to obtain a reliable mapping of pollination in agricultural landscapes.

【 授权许可】

CC BY