Spatio-temporal dynamics of landscape use by the bumblebee Bombus pauloensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and its relationship with pollen provisioning
Understanding how bees use resources at a landscape scale is essential for developing meaningful management plans that sustain populations and the pollination services they provide. Bumblebees are important pollinators for many wild and cultivated plants, and have experienced steep population declin...
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| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/7816 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0216190 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216190 |
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| author | Cavigliasso, Pablo Phifer, Colin C. Adams, Erika M. Flaspohler, David J. Gennari, Gerardo Pablo Licata, Julián Andrés Chacoff, Natacha Paola |
| author_browse | Adams, Erika M. Cavigliasso, Pablo Chacoff, Natacha Paola Flaspohler, David J. Gennari, Gerardo Pablo Licata, Julián Andrés Phifer, Colin C. |
| author_facet | Cavigliasso, Pablo Phifer, Colin C. Adams, Erika M. Flaspohler, David J. Gennari, Gerardo Pablo Licata, Julián Andrés Chacoff, Natacha Paola |
| author_sort | Cavigliasso, Pablo |
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| description | Understanding how bees use resources at a landscape scale is essential for developing meaningful management plans that sustain populations and the pollination services they provide. Bumblebees are important pollinators for many wild and cultivated plants, and have experienced steep population declines worldwide. Bee foraging behavior can be influenced by resource availability and bees’ lifecycle stage. To better understand these relationships, we studied the habitat selection of Bombus pauloensis by tracking 17 queen bumblebees with radio telemetry in blueberry fields in Entre Ríos province, Argentina. To evaluate land use and floral resources used by bumblebees, we tracked bees before and after nest establishment and estimated home ranges using minimum convex polygons and kernel density methods. We also classified the pollen on their bodies to identify the floral resources they used from the floral species available at that time. We characterized land use for each bee as the relative proportion of GPS points inside of each land use. Bumblebees differed markedly in their movement behavior in relation to pre and post nest establishment. Bees moved over larger areas, and mostly within blueberry fields, before nest establishment. In contrast, after establishing the nest, the bees preferred the edges near forest plantations and they changed the nutritional resources to prefer wild floral species. Our study is the first to track queen bumblebee movements in an agricultural setting and relate movement changes across time and space with pollen resource availability. This study provides insight into the way bumblebee queens use different habitat elements at crucial periods in their lifecycle, showing the importance of mass flowering crops like blueberry in the first stages of queen’s lifecycle, and how diversified landscapes help support bee populations as their needs changes during different phases of their lifecycle. |
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| spelling | INTA78162022-10-18T13:24:55Z Spatio-temporal dynamics of landscape use by the bumblebee Bombus pauloensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and its relationship with pollen provisioning Cavigliasso, Pablo Phifer, Colin C. Adams, Erika M. Flaspohler, David J. Gennari, Gerardo Pablo Licata, Julián Andrés Chacoff, Natacha Paola Bombus Apicultura Polinizadores Paisaje Apiculture Pollinators Landscape Bumblebee Bombus pauloensis Abejorros Understanding how bees use resources at a landscape scale is essential for developing meaningful management plans that sustain populations and the pollination services they provide. Bumblebees are important pollinators for many wild and cultivated plants, and have experienced steep population declines worldwide. Bee foraging behavior can be influenced by resource availability and bees’ lifecycle stage. To better understand these relationships, we studied the habitat selection of Bombus pauloensis by tracking 17 queen bumblebees with radio telemetry in blueberry fields in Entre Ríos province, Argentina. To evaluate land use and floral resources used by bumblebees, we tracked bees before and after nest establishment and estimated home ranges using minimum convex polygons and kernel density methods. We also classified the pollen on their bodies to identify the floral resources they used from the floral species available at that time. We characterized land use for each bee as the relative proportion of GPS points inside of each land use. Bumblebees differed markedly in their movement behavior in relation to pre and post nest establishment. Bees moved over larger areas, and mostly within blueberry fields, before nest establishment. In contrast, after establishing the nest, the bees preferred the edges near forest plantations and they changed the nutritional resources to prefer wild floral species. Our study is the first to track queen bumblebee movements in an agricultural setting and relate movement changes across time and space with pollen resource availability. This study provides insight into the way bumblebee queens use different habitat elements at crucial periods in their lifecycle, showing the importance of mass flowering crops like blueberry in the first stages of queen’s lifecycle, and how diversified landscapes help support bee populations as their needs changes during different phases of their lifecycle. EEA Concordia Fil: Cavigliasso, Pablo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Concordia; Argentina Fil: Phifer, Colin C. Michigan Technological University. School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science; Estados Unidos Fil: Adams, Erika M. Michigan Technological University. School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science; Estados Unidos Fil: Flaspohler, David J. Michigan Technological University. School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science; Estados Fil: Gennari, Gerardo Pablo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Famaillá; Argentina Fil: Licata, Julián Andrés. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Concordia; Argentina Fil: Chacoff, Natacha Paola. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo. Instituto de Ecología Regional. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Ecología Regional; Argentina 2020-09-03T14:58:05Z 2020-09-03T14:58:05Z 2020-07 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/7816 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0216190 1932-6203 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216190 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Plos One PLoS ONE 15 (7) : e0216190 (July 2020) |
| spellingShingle | Bombus Apicultura Polinizadores Paisaje Apiculture Pollinators Landscape Bumblebee Bombus pauloensis Abejorros Cavigliasso, Pablo Phifer, Colin C. Adams, Erika M. Flaspohler, David J. Gennari, Gerardo Pablo Licata, Julián Andrés Chacoff, Natacha Paola Spatio-temporal dynamics of landscape use by the bumblebee Bombus pauloensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and its relationship with pollen provisioning |
| title | Spatio-temporal dynamics of landscape use by the bumblebee Bombus pauloensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and its relationship with pollen provisioning |
| title_full | Spatio-temporal dynamics of landscape use by the bumblebee Bombus pauloensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and its relationship with pollen provisioning |
| title_fullStr | Spatio-temporal dynamics of landscape use by the bumblebee Bombus pauloensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and its relationship with pollen provisioning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spatio-temporal dynamics of landscape use by the bumblebee Bombus pauloensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and its relationship with pollen provisioning |
| title_short | Spatio-temporal dynamics of landscape use by the bumblebee Bombus pauloensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and its relationship with pollen provisioning |
| title_sort | spatio temporal dynamics of landscape use by the bumblebee bombus pauloensis hymenoptera apidae and its relationship with pollen provisioning |
| topic | Bombus Apicultura Polinizadores Paisaje Apiculture Pollinators Landscape Bumblebee Bombus pauloensis Abejorros |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/7816 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0216190 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216190 |
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