A land classification protocol for pollinator ecology research: An urbanization case study.

ABSTRACT: Land-use change is one of the most important drivers of widespread declines in pollinator populations. Comprehensive quantitative methods for land classification are critical to understanding these effects, but co-option of existing human-focussed land classifications is often inappropriate for pollinator research. Here, we present a flexible GIS-based land classification protocol for pollinator research using a bottom-up approach driven by reference to pollinator ecology, with urbanization as a case study. Our multistep method involves manually generating land cover maps at multiple biologically relevant radii surrounding study sites using GIS, with a focus on identifying land cover types that have a specific relevance to pollinators. This is followed by a three-step refinement process us

SUBMITTER: Samuelson AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6010921 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature