Contribution of European forests to safeguard wild honeybee populations
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F20%3AN0000138" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/20:N0000138 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/19:80338
Result on the web
<a href="https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12693" target="_blank" >https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12693</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12693" target="_blank" >10.1111/conl.12693</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Contribution of European forests to safeguard wild honeybee populations
Original language description
Recent studies reveal the use of tree cavities by wild honeybee colonies in European forests. This highlights the conservation potential of forests for a highly threatened component of the native entomofauna in Europe, but currently no estimate of potential wild honeybee population sizes exists. Here, we analyzed the tree cavity densities of 106 forest areas across Europe and inferred an expected population size of wild honeybees. Both forest and management types affected the density of tree cavities. Accordingly, we estimated that more than 80,000 wild honeybee colonies could be sustained in European forests. As expected, potential conservation hotspots were identified in unmanaged forests, and, surprisingly, also in other large forest areas across Europe. Our results contribute to the EU policy strategy to halt pollinator declines and reveal the potential of forest areas for the conservation of so far neglected wild honeybee populations in Europe.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10619 - Biodiversity conservation
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
CONSERVATION LETTERS
ISSN
1755-263X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
1-9
UT code for WoS article
000498979000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85075755164