Time to Restore: Connecting People, Plants, and Pollinators StoryMap

Pollinator restoration presents many challenges, from selecting which species to plant to provide nectar during critical periods, to anticipating how these plant species will respond to changes in climate.

A better understanding of flowering and seed timing for critical nectar plants, and the links between this activity and climate, can inform more resilient restoration plantings. 

We are a team of collaborators from the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program, the Tribal Alliance for Pollinators, the Gulf Coast Phenology Trail, and the USA National Phenology Network, supported by a grant from the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center. Our project, Time to Restore: Connecting People, Plants, and Pollinators, aims to deliver guidance to those working on pollinator restoration. This Story Map describes our work over the past two years to (1) better understand the needs of those in the pollinator restoration community in the South Central Region, (2) collect data on flowering and seed timing of nectar plants, and (3) deliver this information in a format that is useful to those in the restoration community.