Foraging trip duration of bumblebees in relation to landscape‐wide resource availability

By C. Westphal, I. Steffan‐Dewenter, T. Tscharntke. 2006

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Abstract 1. The study tested the hypotheses that bumblebees have shorter foraging trips in environments that provide abundant resources than in environments that provide sparse resources, and that shorter foraging trips translate into greater colony growth.

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

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Citations in the corpus

Managing ecosystem services in broadacre landscapes: what are the appropriate spatial scales? (2008, background): “Westphal et al. (2006) showed that in environments with poor resources (scattered vegetation remnants with low food-plant density) foraging trips were longer than foraging trips in environments with abundant resources.”
Massively Introduced Managed Species and Their Consequences for Plant–Pollinator Interactions (2017, background): “Holzschuh et al. (2013) suggest that small- scale effects of oilseed rape are much stronger than landscape-scale effects, at least for solitary bees, which perceive their environment at smaller scales than bumblebees (Westphal et al., 2006).”
Mass flowering oilseed rape improves early colony growth but not sexual reproduction of bumblebees (2009, unknown): “Thus, earlier findings of high B. terrestris densities in landscapes with large amounts of oilseed rape (Westphal et al. 2003, 2006a) can be attributed to enhanced colony growth instead of higher numbers of established colonies in the landscape.”
MEASURING BEE DIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN HABITATS AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS (2008, methodology): “In such landscapes, mass-flowering entomophilous crops may represent highly rewarding additional foraging habitats that are, however, only temporarily available (Banaszak 1996, Westphal et al. 2003, 2006b).”
Pollination reservoirs for wild bee habitat enhancement in cropping systems: a review (2017, background): “Social bees are known to be central place foragers (Stiles 1977) visiting flowers closer to the nest when able (Westphal, Steffan-Dewenter, and Tscharntke 2006).”