Myles H. M. Menz

TL;DR: Gaps in knowledge must be identified, capacities developed, and research translated into policy and practice to deliver proven, scalable restoration, while avoiding costly and simplistic plantings.

TL;DR: It is proposed that pollination could be successfully restored in degraded ecosystems through the use of targeted restoration plantings to attract and sustain pollinators and increased knowledge of the ecological requirements of pollinators.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify seven key challenges in drawing robust inference about insect population declines: establishment of the historical baseline, representativeness of site selection, robustness of time series trend estimation, mitigation of detection bias effects, and ability to account for potential artefacts of density dependence, phenological shifts and scale-dependence in extrapolation from sample abundance to population level inference.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive framework of the research required to bridge the gap between the immediate needs of restoration practitioners and the outputs of restoration science often limits the effectiveness of restoration programs.

TL;DR: The roles of hoverflies and bees as pollinators are contrasted, the need for research and monitoring of different pollinator responses to anthropogenic change is discussed and emerging research into large populations of migratory hoverflies, the threats they face and how they might be used to improve sustainable agriculture are examined.