The Insect Pollinators Initiative and Status and Trends in European Pollinators

摘要

In 2009 and 2010, two programmes were set up to investigate the threats to insect pollinators in the UK and Europe. The UK Insect Pollinators Initiative (IPI) is jointly funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Natural Environment Research Council, the Scottish Government and the Wellcome Trust, under the auspices of the Living With Environmental Change programme. The IPI is funding nine projects aiming to research the causes and consequences of threats to insect pollinators, and subsequently inform future mitigation strategies.