INBOVeg - Pollinator and Floristic surveys carried out as part of a sinus management study in Flanders, Belgium

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Keywords

Samplingevent; Observation; INBOVeg; Sinus

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Flanders, Belgium

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

In this study we report on the effects of sinus management over three consecutive years (2019–2021), with a focus on pollinators, bees and butterflies, as test organisms. These two arthropod groups are considered important because of their numerous presence in grasslands, their trophic level (including relevance of ecosystem services as pollination) and cultural significance (Garibaldi et al., 2013; Woodcock et al., 2021). We investigated the following key research questions: • How management impacts annual accumulation of abundance and alpha diversity metrics for all pollinators, as well as for bee and butterfly subgroups; • The impact of management on pollinator diversity over three consecutive years, focusing on pollinator subgroups categorized by functional diversity and rarity; • How management influences flowering plant abundance and plantpollinator interactions, of bees and butterflies. Through this research, we aim to address a topical issue, relevant for policymakers shaping future biodiversity conservation measures of grassland ecosystems in rural landscapes across European countries and beyond.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

Please see the associated article by Parmentier et al., 2025, for full details of the surveying protocol. The survey was carried out using a 'point, plant, distance' process. All of the plants observed were within 0.5 m of the sampling point. Under the field 'occurrence Remarks', the distance of the observed organism from the observation point was recorded. A value of '0' means a distance of 0 metres, if no distance was recorded then the field will contain a value of 'NULL'.

Method step description:

1. Please see the associated article by Parmentier et al, 2025

Bibliographic Citations

1. Parmentier, L., Kerckvoorde, A. V., Couckuyt, J., Calster, H. V., Smagghe, G., & Haesaert, G. (2025). Sinus management: meandering mowing as a novel method to improve pollinator biodiversity and habitat heterogeneity in mesic grasslands. AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT, 382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.109478
2. Westphal, C., Bommarco, R., Carre, G., Lamborn, E., Morison, N., Petanidou, T., Potts, S. G., Roberts, S.P.M., Szentgyorgyi, H., Tscheulin, T., Vaissiere, B.E., Woyciechowski, M., Biesmeijer, J.C., Kunin, W.E., Settele, J., Steffan-Dewenter, I., 2008. Measuring bee diversity in different European habitats and biogeographical regions. Ecol. Monogr. 78, 653–671 https://10.1890/07-1292.1.
3. Sevilleja, C.G., van Swaay, C.A.M., Bourn, N., Collins, S., Settele, J., Warren, M.S., Wynhoff, I., Roy, D.B., 2019. In: Conservation, B.C.E.D.V.D.B. (Ed.), Butterfly Transect Counts: Manual to monitor butterflies. Report VS2019.016. Wageningen.

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