CropPol: A dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination.
Alfonso Allen-PerkinsAinhoa MagrachMatteo DaineseLucas Alejandro GaribaldiDavid KleijnRomina RaderJames R ReillyRachael WinfreeOla LundinCarley M McGradyClaire BrittainDavid J BiddingerDerek R ArtzElizabeth ElleGeorge HoffmanJames D EllisJaret C DanielsJason GibbsJoshua W CampbellJulia BrokawJulianna K WilsonKeith MasonKimiora L WardKnute B GundersenKyle BobiwashLarry GutLogan M RoweNatalie K BoyleNeal M WilliamsNeelendra K JoshiNikki RothwellRobert L GillespieRufus IsaacsShelby J FleischerStephen S PetersonSujaya RaoTheresa L Pitts-SingerThijs P M FijenVirginie BoreuxMaj RundlöfBlandina Felipe VianaAlexandra-Maria KleinHenrik G SmithRiccardo BommarcoLuísa Gigante CarvalheiroTaylor H RickettsJaboury GhazoulSmitha KrishnanFaye E BenjaminJoão LoureiroSílvia CastroNigel E RaineGerard Arjen de GrootFinbarr G HorganJuliana HipólitoGuy SmaggheIvan MeeusMaxime EeraertsSimon G PottsClaire KremenDaniel GarcíaMarcos MiñarroDavid W CrowderGideon PisantyYael MandelikNicolas J VereeckenNicolas LeclercqTimothy WeekersSandra A M LindströmDara A StanleyCarlos Zaragoza-TrelloCharlie C NicholsonJeroen ScheperCarlos RadEvan A N MarksLucie MotaBryan N DanforthMia ParkAntonio Diego de Melo BezerraBreno Magalhães FreitasRachel E MallingerFabiana Oliveira da SilvaBryony K WillcoxDavi L RamosFelipe D da Silva E SilvaAmparo LázaroDavid AlomarMiguel A González-EstévezHisatomo TakiDaniel P CariveauMichael P D GarrattDiego N Nabaes JodarRebecca I A StewartDaniel ArizaMatti PismanElinor M LichtenbergChristof SchüeppFelix HerzogMartin H EntlingYoko L DupontCharles D MichenerGretchen C DailyPaul R EhrlichKatherine L W BurnsMontserrat VilàAndrew RobsonBrad G HowlettLeah BlechschmidtFrank JaukerFranziska SchwarzbachMaike NesperTim DiekötterVolkmar WoltersHelena CastroHugo GasparBrian A NaultIsabelle BadenhausserJessica D PetersenTeja TscharntkeVincent BretagnolleD Susan Willis ChanNatacha P ChacoffGeorg K S AnderssonShalene JhaJonathan F ColvilleRuan VeldtmanJeferson CoutinhoFelix J J A BianchiLouis SutterMatthias AlbrechtPhilippe JeanneretYi ZouAnne L AverillAgustín SáezAmber R SciligoCarlos H VergaraElias H BloomElisabeth C OellerErnesto I BadanoGregory M LoebHeather L GrabJohan EkroosVesna GagicSaul A CunninghamJens ÅströmPablo CavigliassoAlejandro TrilloAlice ClaßenAlice L MauchlineAna Montero-CastañoAndrew WilbyBen A WoodcockC Sheena SidhuIngolf Steffan-DewenterIoannis N VogiatzakisJosé M HerreraMark OtienoMary W GikunguSarah J CusserThomas NaussLovisa NilssonJessica L KnappJorge J Ortega-MarcosJosé A GonzálezJuliet L OsborneRosalind BlancheRosalind F ShawVioleta HeviaJane C StoutAnthony D ArthurBetina BlochteinHajnalka SzentgyorgyiJin LiMargaret M MayfieldMichał WoyciechowskiPatrícia Nunes-SilvaRosana Halinski de OliveiraSteve HenryBenno I SimmonsBo DalsgaardKatrine HansenTuanjit SritongchuayAlison D O'ReillyFermín José Chamorro GarcíaGuiomar Nates ParraCamila Magalhães PigozoIgnasi BartomeusPublished in: Ecology (2022)
Seventy five percent of the world's food crops benefit from insect pollination. Hence, there has been increased interest in how global change drivers impact this critical ecosystem service. Because standardized data on crop pollination are rarely available, we are limited in our capacity to understand the variation in pollination benefits to crop yield, as well as to anticipate changes in this service, develop predictions, and inform management actions. Here, we present CropPol, a dynamic, open, and global database on crop pollination. It contains measurements recorded from 202 crop studies, covering 3,394 field observations, 2,552 yield measurements (i.e., berry mass, number of fruits, and fruit density [kg/ha], among others), and 47,752 insect records from 48 commercial crops distributed around the globe. CropPol comprises 32 of the 87 leading global crops and commodities that are pollinator dependent. Malus domestica is the most represented crop (32 studies), followed by Brassica napus (22 studies), Vaccinium corymbosum (13 studies), and Citrullus lanatus (12 studies). The most abundant pollinator guilds recorded are honey bees (34.22% counts), bumblebees (19.19%), flies other than Syrphidae and Bombyliidae (13.18%), other wild bees (13.13%), beetles (10.97%), Syrphidae (4.87%), and Bombyliidae (0.05%). Locations comprise 34 countries distributed among Europe (76 studies), North America (60), Latin America and the Caribbean (29), Asia (20), Oceania (10), and Africa (7). Sampling spans three decades and is concentrated on 2001-2005 (21 studies), 2006-2010 (40), 2011-2015 (88), and 2016-2020 (50). This is the most comprehensive open global data set on measurements of crop flower visitors, crop pollinators and pollination to date, and we encourage researchers to add more datasets to this database in the future. This data set is released for non-commercial use only. Credits should be given to this paper (i.e., proper citation), and the products generated with this database should be shared under the same license terms (CC BY-NC-SA).