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Tecnología de Drones y satélites utilizadas para salvar polinizadores
Satellites and drones can provide key information to protect pollinators, researchers say.
A new study examines new ways of using these technologies to track the availability of flowers, and says this could be combined with behavioural studies to see the world through the eyes of insects.
The flowers available to insects vary from day to day and place to place, and human activity is changing landscapes in ways that affect all pollinators.
The University of Exeter research team, supported by the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), hope their approach can help us understand these changes, leading to better conservation.
«Recent advances in drone and satellite technology have created new opportunities,» said lead author Dunia Gonzales, from the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter.
«Drones can now give us fine details of a landscape — on the scale of individual flowers — and combining this with satellite imagery, we can learn about the food available to pollinators across a large area.
«Along with behavioural studies of insects, this will help us understand the threats they face and how to design conservation programmes.
study here: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.869751
Science Daily/May 20, 2022