Quantitative pollen requirements of solitary bees: Implications for bee conservation and the evolution of bee–flower relationships

By A. Müller, S. Diener, Simone Schnyder, Katharina Stutz, Claudio Sédivy, S. Dorn. 2006

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. S. Nicolson
2. R. Winfree
3. N. Williams
4. C. Kremen
5. T. Roulston
6. L. Packer
7. J. Cane
8. K. Goodell

In Insect Science

1. R. Winfree
2. N. Williams
3. T. Roulston
4. C. Kremen
5. S. Nicolson
6. L. Packer
7. J. Cane
8. David I. King

In Plant Science

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2. R. Winfree
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4. T. Roulston
5. V. Tepedino
6. S. Nicolson
7. David I. King
8. Joan Milam

Citations in the corpus

• Closely related pollen generalist bees differ in their ability to develop on the same pollen diet: evidence for physiological adaptations to digest pollen (2011, background): “The pollen of up to several hundred flowers is required to rear one single offspring (Müller et al. 2006), and bees were found to deplete more than 95% of the total pollen amount produced by their hosts (Schlind– wein et al.”
• Collateral effects of beekeeping: Impacts on pollen-nectar resources and wild bee communities (2016, background): “In addition, small bees require smaller pollen/nectar amounts to produce an offspring 385 (Müller et al., 2006).”
• Gauging the Effect of Honey Bee Pollen Collection on Native Bee Communities (2017, background): “In two other studies, foraging native bees removed 43% of each flower’s pollen by midday (Müller et al. 2006), or 80% before midmorning (Carvalho & Schlindwein 2011).”
• Leafcutter and mason bees of the genus Megachile Latreille (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Canada and Alaska (2011, background): “or fecundity of certain species through the quantities at which they occur (Müller et al. 2006; Williams & Kremen 2007; Sheffield et al. 2008).”
• The role of resources and risks in regulating wild bee populations. (2011, background): “Foraging range, which correlates with body size (42), describes both the geographic area in which resources can be used and the amount of a resource that must be collected to provision offspring (76).”
• Bee Food: The Chemistry and Nutritional Value of Nectar, Pollen and Mixtures of the Two (2011, background): “While the pollen requirements for reproduction of solitary bees can be substantial (Müller et al. 2006), it is easier to estimate the floral resources harvested by the tens of thousands in honeybee colonies.”
• Local habitat characteristics but not landscape urbanization drive pollinator visitation and native plant pollination in forest remnants (2013, background): “Small body size combined with the relatively abundant floral resources from trees, shrubs, and forbs when Claytonia and Polemonium are blooming (Hightshoe, 1988), likely allow individuals to persist even in modest-sized woodland fragments during the spring (Müller et al., 2006).”
• Factors affecting bee communities in forest openings and adjacent mature forest (2017, background): “…the variety of resources (e.g., nectar, pollen, nest substrates, and nest-construction materials) necessary for bees to complete their life cycle (Muller et al., 2006) often come from different habitats (Westrich, 1996), opening size may not have influenced bee communities because the…”