Low resource availability drives feeding niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees in a European city.

ABSTRACT: Cities are socioecological systems that filter and select species, therefore 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 allotments 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. Here, we studied the interplay between resource availability and the number of honeybees at local and landscape scales and how this relationship influences wild bee diversity. We collected wild bees and honeybees in a pollinat

SUBMITTER: Casanelles-Abella J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10077915 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature