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Citizen science monitoring reveals links between honeybee health, pesticide exposure and seasonal availability of floral resources
We use a national citizen science monitoring scheme to quantify how agricultural intensification affects honeybee diet breadth (number of plant species). To do this we used DNA metabarcoding to identify the plants present in 527 honey samples collected in 2019 across Great Britain. The species richn...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9395358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35995928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18672-0 |
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author | Woodcock, Ben A. Oliver, Anna E. Newbold, Lindsay K. Soon Gweon, H. Read, Daniel S. Sayed, Ujala Savage, Joanna Bacon, Jim Upcott, Emily Howell, Katherine Turvey, Katharine Roy, David B. Gloria Pereira, M. Sleep, Darren Greenop, Arran Pywell, Richard F. |
author_facet | Woodcock, Ben A. Oliver, Anna E. Newbold, Lindsay K. Soon Gweon, H. Read, Daniel S. Sayed, Ujala Savage, Joanna Bacon, Jim Upcott, Emily Howell, Katherine Turvey, Katharine Roy, David B. Gloria Pereira, M. Sleep, Darren Greenop, Arran Pywell, Richard F. |
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description | We use a national citizen science monitoring scheme to quantify how agricultural intensification affects honeybee diet breadth (number of plant species). To do this we used DNA metabarcoding to identify the plants present in 527 honey samples collected in 2019 across Great Britain. The species richness of forage plants was negatively correlated with arable cropping area, although this was only found early in the year when the abundance of flowering plants was more limited. Within intensively farmed areas, honeybee diets were dominated by Brassica crops (including oilseed rape). We demonstrate how the structure and complexity of honeybee foraging relationships with plants is negatively affected by the area of arable crops surrounding hives. Using information collected from the beekeepers on the incidence of an economically damaging bee disease (Deformed Wing Virus) we found that the occurrence of this disease increased where bees foraged in agricultural land where there was a high use of foliar insecticides. Understanding impacts of land use on resource availability is fundamental to assessing long-term viability of pollinator populations. These findings highlight the importance of supporting temporally timed resources as mitigation strategies to support wider pollinator population viability. |
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spelling | pubmed-93953582022-08-24 Citizen science monitoring reveals links between honeybee health, pesticide exposure and seasonal availability of floral resources Woodcock, Ben A. Oliver, Anna E. Newbold, Lindsay K. Soon Gweon, H. Read, Daniel S. Sayed, Ujala Savage, Joanna Bacon, Jim Upcott, Emily Howell, Katherine Turvey, Katharine Roy, David B. Gloria Pereira, M. Sleep, Darren Greenop, Arran Pywell, Richard F. Sci Rep Article We use a national citizen science monitoring scheme to quantify how agricultural intensification affects honeybee diet breadth (number of plant species). To do this we used DNA metabarcoding to identify the plants present in 527 honey samples collected in 2019 across Great Britain. The species richness of forage plants was negatively correlated with arable cropping area, although this was only found early in the year when the abundance of flowering plants was more limited. Within intensively farmed areas, honeybee diets were dominated by Brassica crops (including oilseed rape). We demonstrate how the structure and complexity of honeybee foraging relationships with plants is negatively affected by the area of arable crops surrounding hives. Using information collected from the beekeepers on the incidence of an economically damaging bee disease (Deformed Wing Virus) we found that the occurrence of this disease increased where bees foraged in agricultural land where there was a high use of foliar insecticides. Understanding impacts of land use on resource availability is fundamental to assessing long-term viability of pollinator populations. These findings highlight the importance of supporting temporally timed resources as mitigation strategies to support wider pollinator population viability. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9395358/ /pubmed/35995928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18672-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Woodcock, Ben A. Oliver, Anna E. Newbold, Lindsay K. Soon Gweon, H. Read, Daniel S. Sayed, Ujala Savage, Joanna Bacon, Jim Upcott, Emily Howell, Katherine Turvey, Katharine Roy, David B. Gloria Pereira, M. Sleep, Darren Greenop, Arran Pywell, Richard F. Citizen science monitoring reveals links between honeybee health, pesticide exposure and seasonal availability of floral resources |
title | Citizen science monitoring reveals links between honeybee health, pesticide exposure and seasonal availability of floral resources |
title_full | Citizen science monitoring reveals links between honeybee health, pesticide exposure and seasonal availability of floral resources |
title_fullStr | Citizen science monitoring reveals links between honeybee health, pesticide exposure and seasonal availability of floral resources |
title_full_unstemmed | Citizen science monitoring reveals links between honeybee health, pesticide exposure and seasonal availability of floral resources |
title_short | Citizen science monitoring reveals links between honeybee health, pesticide exposure and seasonal availability of floral resources |
title_sort | citizen science monitoring reveals links between honeybee health, pesticide exposure and seasonal availability of floral resources |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9395358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35995928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18672-0 |
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