Interactions between the introduced European honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild
European honey bees have been introduced across the globe and may compete with native bees for floral resources. Compounding effects of urbanization and introduced species on native bees are, however, unclear. Here, we investigated how honey bee abundance and foraging patterns related to those of na...
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| description | European honey bees have been introduced across the globe and may compete with native bees for floral resources. Compounding effects of urbanization and introduced species on native bees are, however, unclear. Here, we investigated how honey bee abundance and foraging patterns related to those of native bee abundance and diversity in residential gardens and native vegetation remnants for 2 years in urbanized areas of the Southwest Australian biodiversity hotspot and assessed how niche overlap influenced these relationships. Honey bees did not overtly suppress native bee abundance; however, complex relationships emerged when analysing these relationships according to body size, time of day and floral resource levels. Native bee richness was positively correlated with overall honeybee abundance in the first year, but negatively correlated in the second year, and varied with body size. Native bees that had higher resource overlap with honey bees were negatively associated with honey bee abundance, and resource overlap between honey bees and native bees was higher in residential gardens. Relationships with honey bees varied between native bee taxa, reflecting adaptations to different flora, plus specialization. Thus, competition with introduced bees varies by species and location, mediated by dietary breadth and overlap and by other life-history traits of individual bee species. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-874112022-02-03T08:47:56Z Interactions between the introduced European honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild Prendergast, Kit Dixon, Kingsley Bateman, Bill Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Evolutionary Biology Apis mellifera Australia competition honey bees interspecific competition native bees niche overlap pollinators urbanization wild bees APIS-MELLIFERA REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS FLORAL RESOURCES BODY-SIZE FORAGING STRATEGIES SOLITARY BEES PATCH SIZE WILD BEES COMPETITION HYMENOPTERA European honey bees have been introduced across the globe and may compete with native bees for floral resources. Compounding effects of urbanization and introduced species on native bees are, however, unclear. Here, we investigated how honey bee abundance and foraging patterns related to those of native bee abundance and diversity in residential gardens and native vegetation remnants for 2 years in urbanized areas of the Southwest Australian biodiversity hotspot and assessed how niche overlap influenced these relationships. Honey bees did not overtly suppress native bee abundance; however, complex relationships emerged when analysing these relationships according to body size, time of day and floral resource levels. Native bee richness was positively correlated with overall honeybee abundance in the first year, but negatively correlated in the second year, and varied with body size. Native bees that had higher resource overlap with honey bees were negatively associated with honey bee abundance, and resource overlap between honey bees and native bees was higher in residential gardens. Relationships with honey bees varied between native bee taxa, reflecting adaptations to different flora, plus specialization. Thus, competition with introduced bees varies by species and location, mediated by dietary breadth and overlap and by other life-history traits of individual bee species. 2021 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/87411 10.1093/biolinnean/blab024 English OXFORD UNIV PRESS restricted |
| spellingShingle | Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Evolutionary Biology Apis mellifera Australia competition honey bees interspecific competition native bees niche overlap pollinators urbanization wild bees APIS-MELLIFERA REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS FLORAL RESOURCES BODY-SIZE FORAGING STRATEGIES SOLITARY BEES PATCH SIZE WILD BEES COMPETITION HYMENOPTERA Prendergast, Kit Dixon, Kingsley Bateman, Bill Interactions between the introduced European honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild |
| title | Interactions between the introduced European honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild |
| title_full | Interactions between the introduced European honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild |
| title_fullStr | Interactions between the introduced European honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interactions between the introduced European honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild |
| title_short | Interactions between the introduced European honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild |
| title_sort | interactions between the introduced european honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild |
| topic | Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Evolutionary Biology Apis mellifera Australia competition honey bees interspecific competition native bees niche overlap pollinators urbanization wild bees APIS-MELLIFERA REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS FLORAL RESOURCES BODY-SIZE FORAGING STRATEGIES SOLITARY BEES PATCH SIZE WILD BEES COMPETITION HYMENOPTERA |
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