Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020

During the main COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period of 2020 an impromptu set of pollination ecologists came together via social media and personal contacts to carry out standardised surveys of the flower visits and plants in their gardens. The surveys involved 67 rural, suburban and urban gardens, of various sizes, ranging from 61.18^o North in Norway to 37.96^o South in Australia and resulted in a data set of 25,174 rows long and comprising almost 47,000 visits to flowers, as well as records of plants that were not visited by pollinators. In this first publication from the project we present a brief description of the data and make it freely available for any researchers to use in the future, the only restriction being that they cite this paper in the first instance. As well as producing a data set that we hope will be widely used in the future, the project helped enormously with the health and mental wellbeing of the participants, a by-product of ecological field work that cannot be over-estimated.2020年新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）疫情全域封锁期间，一群临时集结的传粉生态学家通过社交媒体与私人联络渠道齐聚，针对各自花园中的花卉访花行为与园内植物开展标准化调查。本次调查共覆盖67个规模各异的乡村、城郊及城市花园，分布范围覆盖从挪威北纬61.18°至澳大利亚南纬37.96°的区域；最终形成的数据集包含25174条记录，涵盖近47000次花卉访花行为，同时收录了未被传粉者造访的植物的相关记录。本论文作为该项目的首项研究成果，我们在此对该数据集进行简要说明，并将其免费开放给所有未来的研究者使用，唯一使用限制为需优先引用本文。除了构建这份有望得到广泛应用的数据集之外，该项目还极大地改善了参与者的身体健康与心理福祉——这是生态野外工作带来的一项难以估量的附加益处。