STATUS and TRENDS of EUROPEAN POLLINATORS / STEP
FP7 Collaborative Project

Chapter 1: Status and Trends of Pollinators across Europe

Documenting trends in European pollinators (e.g. bees, hoverflies and butterflies) and
plants that depend on animals for their pollination is not straightforward as historic data
are very dispersed or lacking. Moreover, pollinators include the European honeybee, mainly
kept by beekeepers, as well as hundreds of wild species, many of which are barely known
and studied. Still, we have made considerable progress in collating data from many different
sources, developing analytical methods to improve the detection of patterns, and producing
solid evidence for recent trends in pollinating insects and plant for several parts of Europe.
Unfortunately, data availability is still the main bottleneck and has restricted the scope of
some of our findings to specific species groups or a few countries. Below, and in the case
studies 1.1-1.3 we will summarize some major recent findings.

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