Predicting landscape-scale native bumble bee habitat use over space, time, and forage availability.

ABSTRACT: The distribution and abundance of foraging resources are key determinants of animal habitat use and persistence. Decades of agricultural expansion and intensification, along with the introduction of exotic species, have dramatically altered resource distributions in space and time. The nature of contemporary landscapes requires new approaches to understand how mobile organisms utilize the resulting highly fragmented, heterogeneous resources. We used colonies of the native bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) deployed among habitat types and a land use gradient to characterize how resource availability and use change as a function of landscape composition throughout the season in a diverse agricultural region of Northern California. We employ a novel probabilistic framework to identify the spat

SUBMITTER: Hemberger J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11826980 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature