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ArticleAoB PLANTS2025

LIFE 4 Pollinators' platform: How citizen science can help monitoring plants and pollinators.

Fortunato Fulvio Bitonto, Roberto Costantino, Marta Barberis, Gherardo Bogo, Daniele Birtele, Giacomo Cangelmi, Matteo Dal Cin, Jelle Devalez, Lucia Lenzi, Serena Magagnoli and 9 more

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Article in AoB PLANTS, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

Fortunato Fulvio BitontoDepartment of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Irnerio 42, 40126 Bologna, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9185-6758
Roberto CostantinoDepartment of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Giuseppe Fanin 42, 40127 Bologna, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3428-1077
Marta BarberisDepartment of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Irnerio 42, 40126 Bologna, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1062-4760
Gherardo BogoCREA Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Via di Corticella 133, 40128 Bologna, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7415-2224
Daniele BirteleReparto Carabinieri Biodiversità di Roma, Via Canale della Lingua 74, 00124, Roma, Italy.
Giacomo CangelmiDepartment of Life, Health & Environmental Science, University of L'Aquila, Via Vetoio 40, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8411-4175
Matteo Dal CinDepartment of Life Sciences, University of Siena, Via Pier Andrea Mattioli 4, 53100 Siena, Italy.
Jelle DevalezLaboratory of Biogeography and Ecology, Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, University Hill, 81100 Mytilene, Greece.
Lucia LenziDepartment of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Giuseppe Fanin 42, 40127 Bologna, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8838-822X
Serena MagagnoliDepartment of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Giuseppe Fanin 42, 40127 Bologna, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5276-4649
Alessio MiniciDepartment of Computer Science, University of Verona, Strada le Grazie 15, 37134 Verona, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4784-3789
José María SánchezDepartment of Plant Biology and Soil Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo, Campus Lagoas-Marcosende, 36310 Vigo, Spain.
Emanuele Luigi ZengaCREA Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Via di Corticella 133, 40128 Bologna, Italy.
Laura BortolottiCREA Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Via di Corticella 133, 40128 Bologna, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7372-1579
Luis NavarroDepartment of Plant Biology and Soil Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo, Campus Lagoas-Marcosende, 36310 Vigo, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8308-2237
Theodora PetanidouLaboratory of Biogeography and Ecology, Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, University Hill, 81100 Mytilene, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1883-0945
Fabio SgolastraDepartment of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Giuseppe Fanin 42, 40127 Bologna, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2845-8297
Anna TravesetGlobal Change Research Group, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, C/Miguel Marquès 21, 07190 Esporles, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1816-1334
Marta GalloniDepartment of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Irnerio 42, 40126 Bologna, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5304-7820

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plant diversity is critical to ensure the future of humanity, as it provides essential ecosystem services and functioning. As recent estimates showed that animal-mediated pollination is crucial for the reproduction of approximately 90% of flowering plants, playing an essential role in maintaining biodiversity and agricultural productivity, effort to preserve plants cannot be disjoined from pollinator conservation initiatives. Despite their importance, pollinators have experienced alarming declines. The LIFE 4 Pollinators project was launched to involve people protecting wild bees and other pollinators in the Mediterranean. This study presents data collected through the project's web-platform, where users uploaded over 2,000 photographs of plant-pollinator interactions between 2021 and 2024. The dataset focuses on the identification of flower-visiting insects and plants, and the current study gives emphasis to citizen scientists' ability to identify plants and pollinators. 1,407 photo-records were analysed, revealing that bees and beetles were the most frequent pollinators, with plants of the Asteraceae and Cistaceae families being the most recorded. Users correctly identified 93.7% of insect taxonomic aggregations and 74.2% of plant species. The study also highlights the recording of threatened, alien, and invasive species, including the vulnerable

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alien speciesconservationparticipatory web platformplant-pollinator interactionsthreatened species

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