Estimating bee distributions and their functional range to map important areas for protecting bee species and their functions.

ABSTRACT: The decline of wild bee populations causes the decline of bee-pollinated plant populations through the deterioration of pollination services. Since high bee species richness generally involves high functional group diversity, protecting areas of high bee species richness will help to maintain pollination services for plants. However, those areas do not always include the habitats of bee species with specialized functions that expand the range of plants being pollinated. To map important areas for protecting native bee species and their functions, we estimated the distributions and functional range of 13 bumble bee species and 1 honey bee species in Japan. The distributions were estimated from an ensemble of six species distribution models using bee occurrence data and environmental data. T

SUBMITTER: Suzuki-Ohno Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11199664 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature