Separating Sampling Bias From Abundance Shows That Different Methods Catch Different Wild Bees. [PDF]
Ecol EvolComparing community sampling methods' relative taxonomic biases is critical to interpreting the data they collect, but measuring bias explicitly is difficult when methods also produce different sample sizes. Here, we control for absolute abundance while comparing sample composition and richness of three common methods for sampling wild bee communities.
McCarthy MW +5 more
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Multiple Key Hosts and Network Structure Shape Viral Prevalence Across Multispecies Communities of Bees. [PDF]
Ecol LettThis study develops a quantitative framework that integrates field data, epidemiological models, simulations, and Bayesian inference to identify key viral hosts in multispecies bee communities. By estimating species‐specific R0 values from flower‐visitor networks and viral screening, we show that honeybees, as well as other wild bees, can drive the ...
Pluta P +4 more
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Barefoot Trees for Bees: Nesting Site Characteristics of the Ground-Nesting Bee <i>Andrena vaga</i> in an Urban Environment. [PDF]
Ecol EvolAndrena vaga nesting sites were preferably located under canopy cover. The soils of the nesting sites were warmer and drier and showed less penetration resistance and vegetation cover compared to uncolonized control areas. Experimental bare ground plots located within control areas did not provoke colonization of Andrena vaga, assumingly due to social ...
Gardein H +3 more
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Leveraging local species data, a global database, and an occupancy model to explore bee-plant interactions. [PDF]
Ecol ApplAbstract Global declines in bee populations are threatening the ecosystem services they provide, including pollination. Many bee–plant interactions are understudied, producing an incomplete understanding of resulting ecosystem‐level vulnerabilities. The last decade has generated a wealth of opportunistic data originating from natural history collection
Lee MJ, DiRenzo GV, Diao C, Seltmann KC.
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A new species of Colletes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae) from northern Florida and Georgia, with notes on the Colletes of those states [PDF]
, 2016 Colletes ultravalidus Hall & Ascher, new species, is described from several sites in northwestern Florida and southeastern Georgia. It is a member of the inaequalis species group, very similar to C.
Almquist, David T +2 more
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A record of bilateral gynandromorphism in Epeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Nomadinae) [PDF]
, 2018 The discovery of a gynandromorph of a North American Epeolus Latreille is reported. A specimen of E. flavofasciatus Smith from Flagstaff, Arizona, USA discovered in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) exhibits male-specific ...
Onuferko, Thomas M
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Extinctions of aculeate pollinators in Britain and the role of large-scale agricultural changes [PDF]
, 2014 Pollinators are fundamental to maintaining both biodiversity and agricultural productivity, but habitat destruction, loss of flower resources, and increased use of pesticides are causing declines in their abundance and diversity. Using historical records
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The floral hosts and distribution of a supposed creosote bush specialist, Colletes stepheni Timberlake (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) [PDF]
, 2015 Colletes stepheni Timberlake, previously thought to be a narrow oligolege of Larrea (creosote bush) of limited distribution in the Sonoran Desert, is found to be a much more widely distributed psammophile of the Sonoran, Mojave and Great Basin Deserts ...
Griswold, Terry L, Nelson, Rebekah A.
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Revision of the South African endemic bee genus Redivivoides Michener, 1981 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae) [PDF]
, 2012 The South African endemic bee genus Redivivoides Michener, 1981 is revised and redefined. The genus comprises seven species, six of which are described here as new: Redivivoides capensis sp. nov. ♀♂, R. eardleyi sp. nov. ♀, R. kamieskroonensis sp. nov. ♀,
Kuhlmann, Michael
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On the identity of Colletes neoqueenensis (Colletidae: Colletinae) from southern South America [PDF]
, 2019 Colletes neoqueenensis Friese, 1910 is a rare species from southern Argentina known to me from its type series only. The species has also been recorded from Chile, but its occurrence in that country remains to be confirmed.
Ferrari, Rafael Rodrigues
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