The influence of landscape matrix and food sources on the distribution of insect pollinators in intensively farmed and restored fenland.
Hilary is a member of our Applied Ecology Research Group.
Intensively farmed fenlands appears very poor in insect pollinators. The ditch banks provide a large potential area which may be exploited to enhance pollinator habitat once the current situation and management is understood.
The main aims of the research are to determine the pollinator assemblages found in intensively farmed fenland ditch banks and assess the importance of diversity of pollinator species in relation to pollination services of non-crop flowering plants. Additionally the development of diversity of pollinator species in restored fenland in relation to time under restoration will be assessed and the development of a pollen transfer network model will contrast the management of fenland under restoration with that of intensively farmed fenland.
Presentation: "Fenland ditch banks as pollinator refuges: Environmental variable influence on pollination service measurements.", Insect Pollination and Insects & Sustainable Agriculture Special Interest Groups, Reading University, 2016.
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RES. Insect Pollination and Sustainable Agriculture Special Interest Group. 2016. Reading University.
Student Conference of Conservation Science, 2016. Cambridge University RES. PG Forum, 2016. Harpur Adams University.
ENTO '15. 2015. Dublin.
9th Annual Research Student Conference 2015. Anglia Ruskin University.
RES. PG Forum.2015. London.
8th Annual Research Student Conference 2014. Anglia Ruskin University.