Influence of agricultural intensification on pollinator pesticide exposure, food acquisition and diversity

Pollinators are essential for maintaining sustainable crop production, while the decline of pollinators is a widespread concern. Agricultural intensification is one of the primary drivers of the decline of insect pollinators. Agricultural intensification usually involves a decreasing of non-crop semi-natural habitat and an increasing of pesticide exposure for pollinators. However, causal links between agricultural intensification, increased pesticide exposure, and reduced pollinator’s food sources and pollinator diversity remain underexplored.
We assessed pollinator diversity across a landscape gradient where the proportion of rice ranged from 11% to 85% in South China. We placed honeybee (Apis mellifera) and mason bee (Osmia excavata) in these landscapes and investigated pesticide exposure in honeybee  foragers and pollen, and in mason bee pollen and nesting materials. We also assessed  the acquisition of food by mason bees.
We found a higher frequency of pesticide detection in honeybe..., , , ## Summary

This is the data from: Xiaoyu Shi, Changsheng Ma, Joop de Kraker, Shanxing Gong, Jenny A. Hodgson, Shudong Luo, Jozef J. M. van der Steen, Haijun Xiao, Fang Wang, Xiaowei Tie, Zheng Chen & Yi Zou (2024) Influence of agricultural intensification on pollinator pesticide exposure, food acquisition and diversity. Accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Ecology

## Creator

Yi Zou, Department of Health Environmental Sciences, School of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. email: [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])

## Description

The dataset contains three documents:

1. `Pesticide data.csv` is the data for pesticide residual; each of the column refers to the following:
Site: Site ID
Date: Date of the sample collection
Sample.type: Type of the sample
Acetochlor...Thiamethoxam: Detected pesticide residual (ppm)
2. `Species data.csv` is the number of individuals for each species sampled by pan traps; ea...

传粉昆虫（pollinators）对于维持作物可持续生产至关重要，而传粉昆虫种群衰退已成为全球广泛关注的共性议题。农业集约化是导致昆虫传粉者衰退的主要驱动因素之一。农业集约化通常伴随非作物半自然生境的缩减与传粉昆虫农药暴露风险的升高。然而，农业集约化、农药暴露加剧、传粉昆虫食物资源减少与传粉昆虫多样性下降之间的因果关联仍有待深入探究。
我们在中国南方水稻种植比例介于11%至85%的景观梯度上开展了传粉昆虫多样性调查。本研究在该区域布设西方蜜蜂（Apis mellifera）和凹唇切叶蜂（Osmia excavata）作为研究对象，检测了蜜蜂采集蜂、花粉样本以及切叶蜂的花粉与筑巢材料中的农药暴露情况，同时评估了切叶蜂的食物获取状况。
我们发现蜜蜂中农药检出率更高……

## 摘要
本数据集相关研究成果为：施小雨、马长胜、Joop de Kraker、龚善兴、Jenny A. Hodgson、罗书东、Jozef J. M. van der Steen、肖海军、王芳、铁晓威、陈铮与邹毅（2024）《农业集约化对传粉昆虫农药暴露、食物获取与多样性的影响》，已被《Journal of Applied Ecology》接收待刊。

## 数据集创建者
邹毅，中国苏州西交利物浦大学理学院健康与环境科学系，邮箱：[e-mail]

## 数据集说明
本数据集包含三份文件：
1. `Pesticide data.csv`：农药残留数据，各列含义如下：
Site：样地编号（Site ID）
Date：样本采集日期
Sample.type：样本类型
乙草胺（Acetochlor）……噻虫嗪（Thiamethoxam）：检出农药残留量（ppm）
2. `Species data.csv`：色盘诱捕法采集的各物种种群个体数量数据；……