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Published March 9, 2022 | Version v1 10Mar22
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Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020

Creators

  • 1. University of Northampton
  • 2. Kunming Institute of Botany
  • 3. Negaunee Institute for Plant Conservation Science and Action
  • 4. Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • 5. University of Würzburg
  • 6. Western Sydney University
  • 7. Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri
  • 8. University of Exeter
  • 9. University of Sussex
  • 10. University College Dublin
  • 11. Pennsylvania State University
  • 12. University of Oxford
  • 13. University of Freiburg
  • 14. Manchester Metropolitan University
  • 15. Edinburgh Napier University
  • 16. University of Lincoln
  • 17. University of Edinburgh
  • 18. Estación Biológica de Doñana
  • 19. James Hutton Institute
  • 20. Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
  • 21. Curtin University
  • 22. Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis
  • 23. Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
  • 24. Earth & Life Institute
  • 25. University of Florida
  • 26. Deakin University
  • 27. Technical University of Munich
  • 28. University of Vigo
  • 29. University of Bristol
  • 30. Stephen F. Austin State University
  • 31. Natural History Museum
  • 32. Central China Normal University
  • 33. Integrated Land Management
  • 34. Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdes
  • 35. University of Sheffield
  • 36. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
  • 37. Università degli Studi di Torino
  • 38. University of Ulm
  • 39. Ghent University
  • 40. University of Portsmouth
  • 41. Université M'Hamed Bougara de Boumerdès
  • 42. University of Melbourne
  • 43. Coventry University
  • 44. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
  • 45. University of East Anglia
  • 46. University of Leeds
  • 47. Università di Bologna
  • 48. University of East London
  • 49. Dutch Butterfly Conservation
  • 50. Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
  • 51. Université libre de Bruxelles
  • 52. Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
  • 53. Northumbria University
  • 54. University of Greenwich

Description

During the main COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period of 2020 an impromptu set of pollination ecologists came together via social media and personal contacts to carry out standardised surveys of the flower visits and plants in their gardens. The surveys involved 67 rural, suburban and urban gardens, of various sizes, ranging from 61.18o North in Norway to 37.96o South in Australia and resulted in a data set of 25,174 rows long and comprising almost 47,000 visits to flowers, as well as records of plants that were not visited by pollinators. In this first publication from the project we present a brief description of the data and make it freely available for any researchers to use in the future, the only restriction being that they cite this paper in the first instance. As well as producing a data set that we hope will be widely used in the future, the project helped enormously with the health and mental wellbeing of the participants, a by-product of ecological field work that cannot be over-estimated.

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