Succession influences wild bees in a temperate forest landscape: the value of early successional stages in naturally regenerated and planted forests.

ABSTRACT: In many temperate terrestrial forest ecosystems, both natural human disturbances drive the reestablishment of forests. Succession in plant communities, in addition to reforestation following the creation of open sites through harvesting or natural disturbances, can affect forest faunal assemblages. Wild bees perform an important ecosystem function in human-altered and natural or seminatural ecosystems, as they are essential pollinators for both crops and wild flowering plants. To maintain high abundance and species richness for pollination services, it is important to conserve and create seminatural and natural land cover with optimal successional stages for wild bees. We examined the effects of forest succession on wild bees. In particular, we evaluated the importance of early successiona

SUBMITTER: Taki H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3574003 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature