A Geospatial atlas of honey bee forage plants and their distribution patterns in Africa and beyond.

ABSTRACT: Honey bee forage plants are essential for bee nutrition and wellbeing, and they also sustain multifunctional landscapes that support human livelihoods and biodiversity. Despite the critical need to conserve them, information on their identity and distribution across Africa remains limited. Through a systematic literature review, we compiled the first continental database of 1,248 honey bee forage plant species from 91 families and retrieved 1,572,790 occurrence records of these species from open-access biodiversity databases like iNaturalist and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The database includes native and exotic species, with georeferenced records from Africa and beyond. An interactive web-based dashboard accompanies the database, allowing users to visualize specie

SUBMITTER: Nganso BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12491607 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature