Bee Richness and Abundance in New York City Urban Gardens

By K. Matteson, J. Ascher, G. Langellotto. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Social Psychology

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The city as a refuge for insect pollinators (2017, background): “…Canada (Tommasi et al. 2004); and Berkeley (Frankie et al. 2005; 2016), Chicago (Tonietto et al. 2011; Lowenstein et al. 2014), New York City (Matteson et al. 2008; Matteson & Langel-lotto 2009), Phoenix (Cane et al. 2006), San Francisco (McFrederick & LeBuhn 2006), and St. Louis in the…”
Can green roofs provide habitat for urban bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)? (2009, background): “With the presence of suitable plant species and habitat, urban areas have been shown to support high bee diversity (Tommasi et al. 2004; Mcfrederick and LeBuhn 2006; Matteson et al. 2008).”
Gardens benefit bees and enhance pollination in intensively managed farmland (2011, background): “Earlier studies on the impact of domestic 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 urba”
Building height matters: nesting activity of bees and wasps on vegetated roofs (2016, background): “…local and landscape impacts on insect populations are increasingly carried out in and around cities (Blair 1999; Hostetler & McIntyre 2001; Cane et al. 2006; Matteson et al. 2008; Sattler et al. 2010; Bates et al. 2012; Banaszak-Cibicka & _Zmihorski 2012; Geslin et al. 2013; Braaker et al. 2014).”
Response of arthropod species richness and functional groups to urban habitat structure and management (2010, background): “…again due to the urban heat island effect (Bornstein 1968), Mediterranean species have invaded cities and exotic species are able to survive (or even thrive) in urban areas after accidental introduction by man (Ward and Harris 2005; Germann et al. 2008; Kouakou et al. 2008; Matteson et al. 2008).”
Features and Functions of Multifunctional Urban Agriculture in the Global North: A Review (2020, background): “Alternatives to the conventional purchasing and large-scale retail trade are the sale to-order (e.g., Brooklyn Grange rooftop garden in New York City) and the “in-store farming” through modular automated incubators that can be placed in a variety of customer-facing city locations (Butturini and Marc”
Diversity and abundance of solitary and primitively eusocial bees in an urban centre: a case study from Northampton (England) (2015, background): “Journal of Insect Conservation: Volume 19, Issue 3 , Page 487-500”
Small scale additions of native plants fail to increase beneficial insect richness in urban gardens (2011, background): “Nesting sites for soil nesting bees and predatory wasps may be particularly limited in urbanised landscapes due to soil compaction and pavement (Cane, 2005; Matteson et al., 2008).”
Preferences for exotic flowers do not promote urban life in butterflies (2010, background): “However, despite the potential negative impacts of urbanization on insect richness (Matteson et al., 2008), urban areas seem to become pollinator reservoirs (McIntyre and Hostetler, 2001; Tommasi et al.”
Wild bee abundance declines with urban warming, regardless of floral density (2018, background): “Some have found that urbanization favors cavitynesting bees over ground-nesting bees (Cane et al. 2006; Matteson et al. 2008; Geslin et al. 2016), whereas others have not (Carper et al.”
The Bee Fauna of Residential Gardens in a Suburb of New York City (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) (2008, methodology): “For example, the proportion of soil-nesting species tends to be reduced relative to cavity-nesters in urban landscapes (Cane 2005, Matteson et al. 2008), perhaps due to soil compaction, the maintenance of lawns to eliminate bare patches, or both.”
ECOLOGY OF ORGANISMS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS Urban drivers of plant-pollinator interactions (2015, background): “Furthermore, 90% of the urban non-native species were solitary (Matteson 2008).”
Climatic variability and landscape heterogeneity impact urban mosquito diversity and vector abundance and infection (2011, result): “This may be related to the fact that habitat heterogeneity was not related to habitat size, unlike studies that reported significant associations (Helden and Leather 2004, Matteson et al. 2008).”
Humans, bees, and pollination services in the city: the case of Chicago, IL (USA) (2014, positive): “Some bee species have apparently adapted to urban conditions, nesting in non-traditional settings like artiﬁcial structures (Owen 1991) and ﬂow-erpots (Matteson et al. 2008).”
Bumble Bee Abundance in New York City Community Gardens: Implications for Urban Agriculture (2009, background): “The most abundant native bee is the common eastern bumble bee, Bombus impatiens Cresson 1863, which was the only bee observed in all community gardens sampled (N = 19) (Matteson et al. 2008) and which may be an especially important pollinator of crops in urban gardens (Figure 2).”