LIFE 4 Pollinators' platform: How citizen science can help monitoring plants and pollinators.

ABSTRACT: Plant diversity is critical to ensure the future of humanity, as it provides essential ecosystem services and functioning. As recent estimates showed that animal-mediated pollination is crucial for the reproduction of approximately 90% of flowering plants, playing an essential role in maintaining biodiversity and agricultural productivity, effort to preserve plants cannot be disjoined from pollinator conservation initiatives. Despite their importance, pollinators have experienced alarming declines. The LIFE 4 Pollinators project was launched to involve people protecting wild bees and other pollinators in the Mediterranean. This study presents data collected through the project's web-platform, where users uploaded over 2,000 photographs of plant-pollinator interactions between 2021 and 2024

SUBMITTER: Bitonto FF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12190796 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature