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Reap what you sow: local plant composition mediates bumblebee foraging patterns within urban garden landscapes
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8311-2531
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6188-3079
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6011-9172
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8338-3806
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7199-6106
Abstract Although urban gardens are often celebrated for supporting bee abundance and diversity within cities, little is known about how garden management and urbanization levels influence bee foraging behavior and ability to utilize resources within these landscapes. Specifically, the preferences and diet breadth of bees may depend critically on local and landscape conditions in human-managed, urban environments. To understand how foraging patterns and pollen preferences are influenced by urban landscape composition, we first examined if bees visit plants grown within urban gardens and second assessed the relationships between local floral resources, urban land cover, and pollen collection patterns, focusing on 20 community gardens across 125 km of the California central coast. We targeted a well-studied, essential native pollinator in this ecoregion, Bombus vosnesenskii, and analyzed pollen on the bodies of individuals collected in our study gardens to compare their contents to local and landscape garden composition factors. We found that greater landscape-level urban cover and greater plant species richness in the garden both drove higher within-garden pollen collection. We also found that B. vosnesenskii preferred ornamental plant species over highly available crop species in the gardens. Our study indicates that landscapes that support plant diversity, including both ornamental plants and sustenance-oriented food crops, promote greater within-garden pollen collection patterns, with likely benefits for urban garden food production.
Reap what you sow: local plant composition mediates bumblebee foraging patterns within urban garden landscapes
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8311-2531
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6188-3079
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6011-9172
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8338-3806
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7199-6106
Abstract Although urban gardens are often celebrated for supporting bee abundance and diversity within cities, little is known about how garden management and urbanization levels influence bee foraging behavior and ability to utilize resources within these landscapes. Specifically, the preferences and diet breadth of bees may depend critically on local and landscape conditions in human-managed, urban environments. To understand how foraging patterns and pollen preferences are influenced by urban landscape composition, we first examined if bees visit plants grown within urban gardens and second assessed the relationships between local floral resources, urban land cover, and pollen collection patterns, focusing on 20 community gardens across 125 km of the California central coast. We targeted a well-studied, essential native pollinator in this ecoregion, Bombus vosnesenskii, and analyzed pollen on the bodies of individuals collected in our study gardens to compare their contents to local and landscape garden composition factors. We found that greater landscape-level urban cover and greater plant species richness in the garden both drove higher within-garden pollen collection. We also found that B. vosnesenskii preferred ornamental plant species over highly available crop species in the gardens. Our study indicates that landscapes that support plant diversity, including both ornamental plants and sustenance-oriented food crops, promote greater within-garden pollen collection patterns, with likely benefits for urban garden food production.
Reap what you sow: local plant composition mediates bumblebee foraging patterns within urban garden landscapes
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8311-2531
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6188-3079
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6011-9172
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8338-3806
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7199-6106
Abstract Although urban gardens are often celebrated for supporting bee abundance and diversity within cities, little is known about how garden management and urbanization levels influence bee foraging behavior and ability to utilize resources within these landscapes. Specifically, the preferences and diet breadth of bees may depend critically on local and landscape conditions in human-managed, urban environments. To understand how foraging patterns and pollen preferences are influenced by urban landscape composition, we first examined if bees visit plants grown within urban gardens and second assessed the relationships between local floral resources, urban land cover, and pollen collection patterns, focusing on 20 community gardens across 125 km of the California central coast. We targeted a well-studied, essential native pollinator in this ecoregion, Bombus vosnesenskii, and analyzed pollen on the bodies of individuals collected in our study gardens to compare their contents to local and landscape garden composition factors. We found that greater landscape-level urban cover and greater plant species richness in the garden both drove higher within-garden pollen collection. We also found that B. vosnesenskii preferred ornamental plant species over highly available crop species in the gardens. Our study indicates that landscapes that support plant diversity, including both ornamental plants and sustenance-oriented food crops, promote greater within-garden pollen collection patterns, with likely benefits for urban garden food production.
Reap what you sow: local plant composition mediates bumblebee foraging patterns within urban garden landscapes
O’Connell, Megan (author) / Jordan, Zachariah (author) / McGilvray, Erin (author) / Cohen, Hamutahl (author) / Liere, Heidi (author) / Lin, Brenda B. (author) / Philpott, Stacy M. (author) / Jha, Shalene (author)
Urban Ecosystems ; 24
2020
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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43.31
Naturschutz
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42.90$jÖkologie: Allgemeines
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42.90
Ökologie: Allgemeines
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74.12
Stadtgeographie, Siedlungsgeographie
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