Niche overlap and diet breadth in bumblebees; are rare species more specialized in their choice of flowers?

By Dave Goulson, Ben Darvill. 2004

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

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Quantifying and comparing bumblebee nest densities in gardens and countryside habitats (2007, background): “Journal compilation © 2007 British Ecological Society, Journal of Applied Ecology , 45 , 784–792 reduction in availability of preferred forage as a result of agricultural intensification (Goulson & Darvill 2004; Goulson & Hanley 2004; Goulson et al .”
Biotope Associations and the Decline of Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) (2006, background): “We would like to thank Defence Estates for allowing access to Salisbury Plain Training Area, and Scottish Natural Heritage and RSPB for access to Hebridean sites.”
The same, but different: pollen foraging in honeybee and bumblebee colonies (2011, background): “Among these, changes/reductions in habitat and resource availability and diversity are considered one (albeit not the only) cause of the observed bee decline (Williams 1986; Steffan-Dewenter and Tscharntke 1999; Aizen and Feinsinger 2003; Goulson and Darvill 2004; Hines and Hendrix 2005; Goulson et ”
Interacting effects of farming practice and landscape context on bumble bees (2008, background): “…but the existing literature suggests that the species differ markedly in traits such as tongue length, colony size, foraging range, niche breadth, nest position, colony dispersal and length of season (Walther-Hellwig and Frankl, 2000; Goulson and Darvill, 2004; Goulson et al., 2005; Benton, 2006).”
Breeding system, pollinator choice and variation in pollen quality in British herbaceous plants (2008, methodology): “This approach has been widely used for studies of bumblebee forage use (Goulson & Darvill 2004; Goulson & Hanley 2004; Goulson et al .”
Diet breadth, coexistence and rarity in bumblebees (2008, methodology): “Salisbury Plain in southern UK (15 species) (Ranta 1982, Goulson and Darvill 2004).”
Adaptation, Genetic Drift, Pleiotropy, and History in the Evolution of Bee Foraging Behavior (2006, background): “B. pascuorum has a longer proboscis than B. terrestris or B. lapidarius (Goulson and Darvill, 2004; Hagen, 1990; Prys‐Jones and Corbet, 1991), which allows B. pascuorum workers to collect nectar from flowers with longer corolla tubes that would not be accessible to the other two species (Barrow and…”
Comparing the efficacy of agri‐environment schemes to enhance bumble bee abundance and diversity on arable field margins (2006, background): “…that it may be the high value of legume (Fabaceae) pollen to the longer-tongued species, especially those founding colonies relatively late in the season, which accounts for their large number of visits to T. pratense and other Fabaceae (Brian 1951; Goulson & Darvill 2004; Carvell et al. 2006).”
Interacting effects of landscape context and habitat quality on flower visiting insects in agricultural landscapes (2006, methodology): “This is a rather simple method to determine the availability of food resources for flower visiting insects, but has been used before (Dramstad & Fry, 1995; Goulson & Darvill, 2004).”