Separating Sampling Bias From Abundance Shows That Different Methods Catch Different Wild Bees.

ABSTRACT: Ecological community sampling methods have taxonomic biases, producing samples where relative abundances of taxa may differ from the underlying sampled community. Evaluating sampling methods' relative biases is therefore necessary for accurately interpreting community data. Wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) have been the focus of intensive community sampling and many studies have compared the properties of samples collected by different methods. However, comparative studies have often conflated differences in sampling bias with differences in effort and absolute abundance between methods, potentially obscuring methods' true biases.Here, we compare wild bee communities in the northeastern United States as sampled by pan traps, vane traps, and hand netting. Using a dataset of simultaneous sam

SUBMITTER: McCarthy MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12895464 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature