Authors
Joan Casanelles‐Abella, Stefanie Müller, Alexander Keller, Cristiana Aleixo, Marta Alós Orti, François Chiron, Nicolas Deguines, Tiit Hallikma, Lauri Laanisto, Pedro Pinho, Roeland Samson, Piotr Tryjanowski, Anskje Van Mensel, Loïc Pellissier, Marco Moretti
Publication date
2022/2
Journal
Journal of Applied Ecology
Volume
59
Issue
2
Pages
457-470
Description
- Urban ecosystems can sustain populations of wild bees, partly because of their rich native and exotic floral resources. A better understanding of the urban bee diet, particularly at the larval stage, is necessary to understand biotic interactions and feeding behaviour in urban ecosystems, and to promote bees by improving the management of urban floral resources.
- We investigated the larval diet and distribution patterns of four solitary wild bee species with different diet specialization (i.e. Chelostoma florisomne, Osmia bicornis, Osmia cornuta and Hylaeus communis) along urban intensity gradients in five European cities (Antwerp, Paris, Poznan, Tartu and Zurich) using two complementary analyses. Specifically, using trap‐nests and pollen metabarcoding techniques, we characterized the species' larval diet, assessed diet consistency across cities and modelled the distribution of wild bees using species distribution …
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