Are urban parks refuges for bumble bees Bombus spp. (Hymenoptera: Apidae)?

By Q. McFrederick, Gretchen LeBuhn. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Bumble Bee Abundance in New York City Community Gardens: Implications for Urban Agriculture (2009, background): “Alternately, bumble bees may be dependent on larger urban parks for relatively undisturbed ground nesting sites (McFrederick and Lebuhn 2006).”
Ecology of Urban Bees: A Review of Current Knowledge and Directions for Future Study (2009, background): “Many of the urban bee surveys reviewed indicated that floral specialists are scarce in urban habitats (Cane 2005; Frankie et al. 2005; Cane et al. 2006; McFrederick and LeBuhn 2006; Fetridge et al. 2008; Frankie et al. 2009).”
Building height matters: nesting activity of bees and wasps on vegetated roofs (2016, background): “Although an increasing number of studies examine which local and landscape factors limit nesting activity of bees and wasps in urban green spaces (Loyola & Martins 2006; McFrederick & LeBuhn 2006; Sch€uepp et al. 2011; Pereira-Peixoto et al. 2014), none address the role of Table 2.”
The role of resources and risks in regulating wild bee populations. (2011, background): “Kremen C, Williams NM, Aizen MA, Gemmill-Herren B, LeBuhn G, et al. 2007.”
Gardens benefit bees and enhance pollination in intensively managed farmland (2011, background): “…gardens on pollinators have focused on urban or suburban environments (Ahrné et al., 2009; Cussans et al., 2010; Fetridge et al., 2008; Goddard et al., 2010; Goulson et al., 2002; Matteson et al., 2008; but see Osborne et al., 2008) or on pollinators in urban parks (McFrederick and LeBuhn, 2006).”
Are all urban green spaces a favourable habitat for pollinator communities? Bees, butterflies and hoverflies in different urban green areas (2019, background): “Recent studies have shown that urban areas are also potentially attractive habitats for pollinators (McFrederick & LeBuhn, 2006; Lizée et al., 2011; Correspondence: Weronika Banaszak-Cibicka, Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71C, 60-625 Poznań, Poland.”
Environmental factors affecting bee diversity in urban and remote grassland plots in Boulder, Colorado (2009, background): “For example, several recent studies indicate that gardens and parks in urban areas can maintain diverse bee assemblages (McFrederick and LeBuhn 2006; Matteson et al. 2008), especially when native flowering species are planted (Frankie et al. 2002, 2005; Cane et al. 2006).”
The Bee Fauna of Residential Gardens in a Suburb of New York City (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) (2008, background): “First, the landscape matrix in which habitat fragments are embedded can exert inßuence over bee abundance and diversity (SteffanDewenter et al. 2002, McFrederick and LeBuhn 2006).”
Local habitat characteristics but not landscape urbanization drive pollinator visitation and native plant pollination in forest remnants (2013, background): “…by suburban and non-industrial urban areas, which in other regions have be shown to have abundant and diverse flower resources from gardens, parks and semi-natural habitats that support bee populations (Goulson et al., 2002; McFrederick and LeBuhn, 2006; Osborne et al., 2008; Tommasi et al., 2004).”
The influence of urban park characteristics on ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) communities (2008, neutral): “Furthermore, several bumblebees were found to be locally extinct in urban parks (McFrederick and LeBuhn, 2006) and the endangered forktail damselfly (Ishnura gemina) has gone extinct in a large protected park due to overgrowth of its habitat (Connor et al. 2003).”