Niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees

Cities are socio-ecological systems that filter and select species, thus establishing unique species assemblages and biotic interactions. Urban ecosystems can host richer wild bee communities than highly intensified agricultural areas, specifically in resource-rich urban green spaces such as allotment and family gardens. At the same time, urban beekeeping has boomed in many European cities, raising concerns that the fast addition of a large number of managed bees could deplete the existing floral resources, triggering competition between wild bees and honeybees. The data has been used to investigated the interplay between resource availability and the number of honeybees at local and landscape scales and how this relationship influences wild bee diversity.

This dataset contains the raw and processed data supporting the findings from the paper: "Low resource availability drives feeding niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees in a European city".

The data contains:
1. Bee trait measurements at the species and individual-level of five functional traits.
2. The values of the feeding niche partitioning (functional dissimilarity to honeybees)
3. The predictors of resource availability and beekeeping intensity at local and landscape scales used in the modelling of the paper for the 23 experimental sites.

Funding Information:

This work was supported by:
  • SNCF Synergia (Grant/Award: 154416)
  • SNCF (Grant/Award: 31BD30_172467)
  • ERA-Net BiodivERsA (Grant/Award: H2020 BiodivERsA32015104)

Related Publications

  • Casanelles‐Abella J., Fontana S., Fournier B., Frey D., Moretti M. (2023) Low resource availability drives feeding niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees in a European city. Ecol. Appl. 33(1), e2727 (17 pp.). doi.org/10.1002/eap.2727

Citation:

Casanelles Abella, Joan; Fontana, Simone; Fournier, Bertrand; Frey, David Johannes; Moretti, Marco (2021). Niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees. EnviDat. doi:10.16904/envidat.253.

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Field Values
DOI 10.16904/envidat.253
Publication State Published
Authors
  • Email: joan.casanellesfoo(at)wsl.ch ORCID: 0000-0003-1924-9298 Given Name: Joan Family Name: Casanelles Abella Affiliation: WSL Additional Affiliation : ETHZ DataCRediT: Collection, Validation, Software, Publication, Supervision
  • Email: simone.fontanafoo(at)mail.nature.uni-freiburg.de Given Name: Simone Family Name: Fontana Affiliation: University of Freiburg DataCRediT: Software, Publication
  • Email: bertrand.fournier@uni-potsdam.de, Given Name: Bertrand Family Name: Fournier Affiliation: University of Postdam Additional Affiliation : WSL
  • Email: david.freyfoo(at)wsl.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-4603-0438 Given Name: David Johannes Family Name: Frey Affiliation: Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland Additional Affiliation : Spatial Evolutionary Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland DataCRediT: Collection, Curation, Publication
  • Email: marco.morettifoo(at)wsl.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-5845-3198 Given Name: Marco Family Name: Moretti Affiliation: WSL DataCRediT: Collection, Curation, Publication
Contact Person Given Name: Marco Family Name: Moretti Email: marco.morettifoo(at)wsl.ch Affiliation: WSL ORCID: 0000-0002-5845-3198
Subtitles
Publication Publisher: EnviDat Year: 2021
Dates
  • Type: Created Date: 2021-10-22
Version 1.0
Type dataset
General Type Dataset
Language English
Location Switzerland
Content License Creative Commons Zero - No Rights Reserved (CC0 1.0)    [Open Data]
Last Updated February 10, 2023, 10:58 (UTC)
Created October 22, 2021, 12:47 (UTC)