Habitat preferences of nest-seeking bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in an agricultural landscape

By B. Svensson, J. Lagerlöf, B. G. Svensson. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Citations in the corpus

• Pollen transport differs among bees and flies in a human‐modified landscape (2011, background): “, 2006) and habitat preferences associated with foraging, shelter or nesting resource requirements (Osborne et al., 1999; Svensson et al., 2000).”
• The effect of grazing on bumblebees in the high rangelands of the eastern Tibetan Plateau of Sichuan (2008, background): “Because bumblebees have food-plant preferences (e.g. Williams 1989, 2005; Osborne et al. 1999; Osborne and Williams 2001) and nest-site preferences (Svensson et al. 2000; Kells and Goulson 2003), they should face increasing constraints when suitable habitats become fragmented, which might lead to…”
• Use of genetic markers to quantify bumblebee foraging range and nest density (2004, unknown): “Within agricultural landscapes, bumblebees are thought to nest mainly in hedgerows or field margins (Svensson et al. 2000, Kells and Goulson 2003).”
• Gardens benefit bees and enhance pollination in intensively managed farmland (2011, background): “Linear landscape elements are also known to be important for bumblebee nesting (Lye et al., 2009; Osborne et al., 2008; Svensson et al., 2000).”
• Preferred nesting sites of bumblebee queens (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in agroecosystems in the UK (2003, methodology): “…Conservation 109 (2003) 165–174 www.elsevier.com/locate/biocon generally found along field boundaries; this is where queens are often found in nest-searching flight (Svensson et al., 2000), but these habitat types are amongst the first to be lost in any intensification of the farming system.”
• Displacement of Japanese native bumblebees by the recently introduced Bombus terrestris (L.) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) (2008, methodology): “Habitats were classified into the following five types (modified from Svensson et al. 2000 ): (1) farmland boundary (Fb), a grass-dominated strip between two farmland patches or between farmland and other open ground; (2) road boundary (Rb), a grassdominated strip between a drivable road and farmla”
• Intensification of agriculture, landscape composition and wild bee communities: a large scale study in four European countries. (2010, background): “, 2007; Kwaiser and Hendrix, 2008) and nesting sites (Svensson et al., 2000).”
• Assessing the value of annual and perennial forage mixtures for bumblebees by direct observation and pollen analysis (2006, background): “Furthermore, due to its annual nature, this option does not allow the establishment of vegetation suitable as nesting habitat for bumblebees (Svensson et al., 2000).”
• Decline of bumble bees (Bombus) in the North American Midwest (2009, background): “…similar land-use changes to Illinois, found bumble bee diversity in prairie remnants to be strongly influenced by the availability of resources in the surrounding area, particularly in grasslands, which provide abundant pollen sources and nesting habitat for bumble bees (Svennson et al., 2000).”