Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250056" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250056</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250056" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0250056</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark

Original language description

A recurrent concern in nature conservation is the potential competition for forage plants between wild bees and managed honey bees. Specifically, that the highly sophisticated system of recruitment and large perennial colonies of honey bees quickly exhaust forage resources leading to the local extirpation of wild bees. However, different species of bees show different preferences for forage plants. We here summarize known forage plants for honey bees and wild bee species at national scale in Denmark. Our focus is on floral resources shared by honey bees and wild bees, with an emphasis on both threatened wild bee species and foraging specialist species. Across all 292 known bee species from Den-mark, a total of 410 plant genera were recorded as forage plants. These included 294 plant genera visited by honey bees and 292 plant genera visited by different species of wild bees. Honey bees and wild bees share 176 plant genera in Denmark. Comparing the pairwise niche overlap for individual bee species, no significant relationship was found between their overlap and forage specialization or conservation status. Network analysis of the bee-plant interactions placed honey bees aside from most other bee species, specifically the module containing the honey bee had fewer links to any other modules, while the remaining modules were more highly interconnected. Despite the lack of predictive relationship from the pair-wise niche overlap, data for individual species could be summarized. Consequently, we have identified a set of operational parameters that, based on a high foraging overlap (&gt;70%) and unfavorable conservation status (Vulnerable+Endangered+Critically Endangered), can guide both conservation actions and land management decisionsin proximity to known or suspected populations of these species.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS One

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

"Article Number: e0250056"

UT code for WoS article

000662174400035

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85104917181