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Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark
A recurrent concern in nature conservation is the potential competition for forage plants between wild bees and managed honey bees. Specifically, that the highly sophisticated system of recruitment and large perennial colonies of honey bees quickly exhaust forage resources leading to the local extir...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8081269/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33909661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250056 |
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author | Rasmussen, Claus Dupont, Yoko L. Madsen, Henning Bang Bogusch, Petr Goulson, Dave Herbertsson, Lina Maia, Kate Pereira Nielsen, Anders Olesen, Jens M. Potts, Simon G. Roberts, Stuart P. M. Sydenham, Markus Arne Kjær Kryger, Per |
author_facet | Rasmussen, Claus Dupont, Yoko L. Madsen, Henning Bang Bogusch, Petr Goulson, Dave Herbertsson, Lina Maia, Kate Pereira Nielsen, Anders Olesen, Jens M. Potts, Simon G. Roberts, Stuart P. M. Sydenham, Markus Arne Kjær Kryger, Per |
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description | A recurrent concern in nature conservation is the potential competition for forage plants between wild bees and managed honey bees. Specifically, that the highly sophisticated system of recruitment and large perennial colonies of honey bees quickly exhaust forage resources leading to the local extirpation of wild bees. However, different species of bees show different preferences for forage plants. We here summarize known forage plants for honey bees and wild bee species at national scale in Denmark. Our focus is on floral resources shared by honey bees and wild bees, with an emphasis on both threatened wild bee species and foraging specialist species. Across all 292 known bee species from Denmark, a total of 410 plant genera were recorded as forage plants. These included 294 plant genera visited by honey bees and 292 plant genera visited by different species of wild bees. Honey bees and wild bees share 176 plant genera in Denmark. Comparing the pairwise niche overlap for individual bee species, no significant relationship was found between their overlap and forage specialization or conservation status. Network analysis of the bee-plant interactions placed honey bees aside from most other bee species, specifically the module containing the honey bee had fewer links to any other modules, while the remaining modules were more highly inter-connected. Despite the lack of predictive relationship from the pairwise niche overlap, data for individual species could be summarized. Consequently, we have identified a set of operational parameters that, based on a high foraging overlap (>70%) and unfavorable conservation status (Vulnerable+Endangered+Critically Endangered), can guide both conservation actions and land management decisions in proximity to known or suspected populations of these species. |
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spelling | pubmed-80812692021-05-06 Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark Rasmussen, Claus Dupont, Yoko L. Madsen, Henning Bang Bogusch, Petr Goulson, Dave Herbertsson, Lina Maia, Kate Pereira Nielsen, Anders Olesen, Jens M. Potts, Simon G. Roberts, Stuart P. M. Sydenham, Markus Arne Kjær Kryger, Per PLoS One Research Article A recurrent concern in nature conservation is the potential competition for forage plants between wild bees and managed honey bees. Specifically, that the highly sophisticated system of recruitment and large perennial colonies of honey bees quickly exhaust forage resources leading to the local extirpation of wild bees. However, different species of bees show different preferences for forage plants. We here summarize known forage plants for honey bees and wild bee species at national scale in Denmark. Our focus is on floral resources shared by honey bees and wild bees, with an emphasis on both threatened wild bee species and foraging specialist species. Across all 292 known bee species from Denmark, a total of 410 plant genera were recorded as forage plants. These included 294 plant genera visited by honey bees and 292 plant genera visited by different species of wild bees. Honey bees and wild bees share 176 plant genera in Denmark. Comparing the pairwise niche overlap for individual bee species, no significant relationship was found between their overlap and forage specialization or conservation status. Network analysis of the bee-plant interactions placed honey bees aside from most other bee species, specifically the module containing the honey bee had fewer links to any other modules, while the remaining modules were more highly inter-connected. Despite the lack of predictive relationship from the pairwise niche overlap, data for individual species could be summarized. Consequently, we have identified a set of operational parameters that, based on a high foraging overlap (>70%) and unfavorable conservation status (Vulnerable+Endangered+Critically Endangered), can guide both conservation actions and land management decisions in proximity to known or suspected populations of these species. Public Library of Science 2021-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8081269/ /pubmed/33909661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250056 Text en © 2021 Rasmussen et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Rasmussen, Claus Dupont, Yoko L. Madsen, Henning Bang Bogusch, Petr Goulson, Dave Herbertsson, Lina Maia, Kate Pereira Nielsen, Anders Olesen, Jens M. Potts, Simon G. Roberts, Stuart P. M. Sydenham, Markus Arne Kjær Kryger, Per Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark |
title | Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark |
title_full | Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark |
title_fullStr | Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark |
title_short | Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark |
title_sort | evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in denmark |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8081269/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33909661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250056 |
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