2bd21042-ebbc-4454-8ca3-96e18333ccd2 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-12-16T10:15:00 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Insect pollinator visitations to soybean crops, and soybean crop yield, along a latitudinal gradient in South America, 2020-2022 2024-03-07 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2bd21042-ebbc-4454-8ca3-96e18333ccd2 10.5285/2bd21042-ebbc-4454-8ca3-96e18333ccd2 doi: da Cunha, N.L., Chacoff, N.P., Sáez, A., Galetto, L., Devoto, M., Carrasco, J., Mazzei, M.P., Castillo, S.E., Palacios, T.P., Vesprini, J.L., Agostini, K., Saraiva, A.M., Woodcock, B.A., Aizen, M.A. (2024). Insect pollinator visitations to soybean crops, and soybean crop yield, along a latitudinal gradient in South America, 2020-2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/2bd21042-ebbc-4454-8ca3-96e18333ccd2 This data set represents field-based monitoring of insect pollinator communities found within soya (Glycine max L. Merril) crops located along a latitudinal gradient ranging from -37.669486 to -24.495121 covering both Argentina and Brazil. Yield data was also collected from these same sites to elucidate the dependencies of this crop on insect pollination with a focus on managed and wild pollinators. Data was collected over multiple seasons between 2020 and 2022. Soybean is one of the most traded agricultural commodities and is of significant economic importance in South America. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2bd21042-ebbc-4454-8ca3-96e18333ccd2 Devoto, M. Universidad de Buenos Aires mdevoto@agro.uba.ar https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3098-236X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact da Cunha, N.L. CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Comahue nicolaycunha@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5509-6757 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Chacoff, N.P. Univ. Nacional de Tucuman nchacoff@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1115-6989 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Sáez, A. CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Comahue agustinsaez@comahue-conicet.gob.ar https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8988-2816 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Galetto, L. Universidad Nacional de Cordoba leo@imbiv.unc.edu.ar https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3828-657X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Devoto, M. Universidad de Buenos Aires mdevoto@agro.uba.ar https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3098-236X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Carrasco, J. Univ. Nacional de Tucuman julietacarilla@gmail.com author Mazzei, M.P. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Agrarias de Rosario mariana.mazzei@unr.edu.ar https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0424-3184 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Castillo, S.E. Univ. Nacional de Tucuman silviocastilloat@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7947-350X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Palacios, T.P. Universidad de Buenos Aires tanpalacios@agro.uba.ar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7801-1784 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Vesprini, J.L. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Agrarias de Rosario jvesprin@unr.edu.ar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6593-4248 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Agostini, K. Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos kaynaagostini@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0038-3211 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Saraiva, A.M. Universidade de Sao Paulo saraiva@usp.br https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2283-1123 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Woodcock, B.A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0300-9951 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Aizen, M.A. CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Comahue EMAIL NOT PROVIDED https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9079-9749 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Grupo de Ecología de la Polinizacion (EcoPol), INIBIOMA (CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Comahue) nicolaycunha@gmail.com owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian ecosystem services yield (agricultural) GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation seed set bees soybean autogamy autonomous self-pollination Glycine max Soya pollination wild bees honeybees otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: da Cunha, N.L., Chacoff, N.P., Sáez, A., Galetto, L., Devoto, M., Carrasco, J., Mazzei, M.P., Castillo, S.E., Palacios, T.P., Vesprini, J.L., Agostini, K., Saraiva, A.M., Woodcock, B.A., Aizen, M.A. (2024). Insect pollinator visitations to soybean crops, and soybean crop yield, along a latitudinal gradient in South America, 2020-2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/2bd21042-ebbc-4454-8ca3-96e18333ccd2 textTable English utf8 biota farming 2020-01-01 2022-12-31 -86.177 -32.739 -55.974 9.449 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/2bd21042-ebbc-4454-8ca3-96e18333ccd2 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/2bd21042-ebbc-4454-8ca3-96e18333ccd2.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Fieldwork instrumentation used. No fieldwork instrumentation was used outside of GPS to position the sites’ locations. Methods of collection. Five study areas were located along a N-S latitudinal gradient from southern Brazil to central Argentina. Within each area, five soybean sites were selected. At each site sampling areas were established at the field edge (50 m from field boundary) and the field interior (150 m from the field boundary). Pollinator sampling: During flowering, we conducted repeated measurements of pollinator abundance and diversity in each soybean field by sampling along 100-m-long transects (1 m wide) placed on the field margin (0 m from field edge) and within the crop at 50 and 150 m from the field edge. Pollinator sampling along transects was undertaken by slowly walking the transect for 20 minutes and recording all insects seen visiting flowers. This was done on three occasions each day for an early (8:30-10:00h), mid (12-14:00h) and late (15:30-17:30) sample round. Pollinators were identified where possible to species or species aggregates in the field. Where this was not possible individuals were collected for subsequent lab-based identification ideally to species, or where this was not possible to generic or some other level of identification. If necessary, a morphospecies concept was applied allowing the identification of recognizable taxonomic units even where taxonomic resolution was poor. Where possible the name of flowering plants in the field margin that received visits from the pollinators were recorded. Weather data was recorded in the form of temperature, humidity and wind speed. Pollination dependence of oilseed rape: At each sampling location in a field two (50 m and 150 m from the edge) sampling transects from the field edge were established (A and B). We assessed pollinator dependence using a caging experiment consisting of two treatments: (i) closed to pollinators by covering crops within 1m2 enclosed by cages of fine mesh during the flowering period, (ii) open pollination (i.e., plot of 1m2 without manipulation). We harvested 5 plants per treatment, each taken from in the middle of the cage. Following harvest, we measured: (i) Total number of pods on the plant; (ii) Average number of seeds per pod; (ii) Weight of the seeds (grams) before drying; iii) Total dried weight of seeds from the plant (grams). Additional information on crop variety, date of sowing and data of first observed flowers was recorded. Sampling was undertaken according to site in the harvest years of 2020, 2021 and 2022. Nature and units of recorded variables. All data on abundance of pollinators represents counts of individuals. Data on fruit set represents counts of the number of fruits, buds and flowers. Processing steps performed on the data. No data has been transformed with the exception of mean seeds per pod values. Quality control/assessment applied to the data. All field workers were either experts with a long track record of pollinator identification or underwent extensive training. Questionable specimens were collected for subsequent identification under laboratory conditions. Data was collected in the field using pre-prepared data sheets. Data sheets were checked both visually and following data entry into digital format by confirming where outlier abundances (>2SD from mean) were found that these were consistent with raw field data sheets. Balances used to weigh seeds are regularly calibrated. Limitations on the data reliability. For the seed set data there is no shaded control that allows access to pollinators, although a preliminary study suggested that this treatment did not differ from a non-shaded open to pollinators control.