Insect pollinators face a number of well-documented threats that challenge their survival at an individual and community level. The effect of extreme events on pollinator assemblages has received little attention to date, partly due to a lack of consensus on what constitutes extreme, but also because robust pre-event data is often lacking. Here, the term SHOCK (Sudden, High-magnitude Opportunity for a Catastrophic ‘Kick’) is used to encompass attributes of extreme events that carry the potential to add additional challenges to insect communities already facing environmental stressors. Selected events from two SHOCK categories are explored (those with natural origins and those that are human-mediated). The value of studying single events is considered in the context of a third category; human-enhanced SHOCKs.

昆虫传粉者面临着许多有据可查的威胁，这些挑战威胁着它们在个人和社区一级的生存。迄今为止，极端事件对传粉媒介的影响鲜有引起关注，部分原因是对构成极端事件的共识尚不足，也由于经常缺乏可靠的事件前数据。这里，术语“休克”（灾难性“踢”的突然，高震级机会）用于涵盖极端事件的属性，这些极端事件可能会给已经面临环境压力的昆虫群落带来更多挑战。探究了从两个“冲击”类别中选择的事件（那些具有自然起源的事件和那些由人为媒介的事件）。研究单个事件的价值是在第三类的背景下考虑的。人为增强的电击。