Flower-Insect Timed Counts (FIT Count): protocol adaptation and preliminary results in Brazil

Filipi Miranda Soares; Sheina Koffler; Natália Pirani Ghilardi-Lopes; Claire Carvell; James Chiazzese; Debora Pignatari Drucker; José Augusto Salim; Bruno de Carvalho Albertini; Patrícia Nunes-Silva; Antonio Mauro Saraiva

doi:10.3897/biss.7.111545

Flower-Insect Timed Counts (FIT Count): protocol adaptation and preliminary results in Brazil

Filipi Miranda Soares
, Sheina Koffler
, Natália Pirani Ghilardi-Lopes
, Claire Carvell
, James Chiazzese
, Debora Pignatari Drucker
, José Augusto Salim
, Bruno de Carvalho Albertini
, Patrícia Nunes-Silva
, Antonio Mauro Saraiva

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FIT Count (Flower-Insect Timed Counts) is a citizen science initiative that seeks to monitor flower visitation by diverse pollinator groups, including bumblebees, stingless bees, honeybees, flies, hummingbirds, among others. The protocol entails determining a 50 x 50 cm plot area around a target plant species, photographing the plant and conducting a standardized 10-minute survey on this area to estimate the frequency of flower visits by different pollinator groups. Conducting FIT Counts in different habitats and locations produces data on the temporal and spatial dynamics of these interactions.

Original language	English
Article number	e111545
Number of pages	4
Journal	Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111545
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Keywords

Participatory monitoring
Citizen science
Biodiversity
Pollination
Biodiversity conservation

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Miranda Soares, F., Koffler, S., Ghilardi-Lopes, N. P., Carvell, C., Chiazzese, J., Pignatari Drucker, D., Salim, J. A., Albertini, B. D. C., Nunes-Silva, P., & Saraiva, A. M. (2023). Flower-Insect Timed Counts (FIT Count): protocol adaptation and preliminary results in Brazil. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 7, Article e111545. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111545

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