Bumblebee friendly planting recommendations with citizen science data

Agung Toto Wibowo, Advaith Siddharthan, Helen Anderson, Annie Robinson, Nirwan Sharma, Helen Bostock, Andrew Salisbury, Richard Comont, René Van Der Wal

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Abstract

Several citizen science projects engage with the public around pollinator species, typically requesting data (e.g. in the form of photorecords of different species tagged by place and date). While such projects help scientists collect data, these data are rarely fed back to the public in any meaningful manner. In this paper, we address this through a recommender system based on Matrix Factorization over a matrix of observed bumblebee-plant interactions derived from data submitted to a citizen science project BeeWatch. The system recommends pollinator-friendly plants for domestic gardens and takes into account both the fact that different bumblebee species exhibit differing preferences for flowers, and that plants flower at different times of the year. The goal is to attract a range of bumblebee species to a garden and to ensure that these species have sufficient food sources through the season.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of International Workshop on Citizens for Recommender Systems, CitRec 2017 - In Conjunction with ACMRecSys 2017
EditorsJie Yang, Zhu Sun, Alessandro Bozzon, Jie Zhang, Martha Larson
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1-6
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450353700
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Aug 2017
Event2017 International Workshop on Citizens for Recommender Systems, CitRec 2017 - In Conjunction with ACMRecSys 2017 - Como, Italy
Duration: 31 Aug 201731 Aug 2017

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceedings Series
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery

Conference

Conference2017 International Workshop on Citizens for Recommender Systems, CitRec 2017 - In Conjunction with ACMRecSys 2017
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityComo
Period31/08/1731/08/17

Bibliographical note

Planting for Pollinators was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (grant number: Public Engagement Pilot 2016_094) and BeeWatch was supported by Research Council UK (grant reference EP/G066051/1).

Keywords

  • Bumblebees
  • Matrix factorization
  • Planting advice
  • Pollinator friendly plants
  • Recommender systems

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