Solar park management and design to boost bumble bee populations
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Abstract Solar photovoltaics is projected to become the dominant renewable, with much capacity being installed as ground-mounted solar parks. Land use change for can affect ecosystems across spatial scales and parks offer a unique opportunity ecological enhancement. One compelling potential benefit beginning be deployed by industry management insect pollinators. Specifically, provide refuge pollinators through provision of suitable habitat, potentially contributing halting reversing widespread declines recorded in some pollinator groups. There scope both manage design pollinators, but understanding limited. Using geographic information system process-based model, we explore how park management, size, shape landscape context might impact ground-nesting bumble bee density, nest density productivity inside existing surrounding landscapes UK. We show that driven twice many bees foraging nesting managed wildflower meadows, compared those only margins. In comparison, have smaller on response However, large, elongated resource-rich were most effective at increasing landscapes, implications local crop pollination. there double number large meadows turf grass. If designed optimally, therefore boost pollination services adjacent crops. Our results demonstrate incorporating biodiversity into decisions could groups such contribute wider environmental sustainability
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Research Letters
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1748-9326']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5840