Landscape and local site variables differentially influence pollinators and pollination services in urban agricultural sites.

ABSTRACT: Urbanization has detrimental effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, as agricultural and semi-natural habitats are converted into landscapes dominated by built features. Urban agricultural sites are a growing component of urban landscapes and have potential to serve as a source of biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provisioning in urban areas. In 19 urban agricultural sites, we investigated how surrounding land cover and local site variables supported bees and pollination services. We found the abundance of bees differentially responded to landscape and local scale variables depending on body size and nesting habit. Large-bodied bees, Bombus and Apis species, were positively associated with increasing amounts of impervious cover, while the abundance of small-bodied

SUBMITTER: Bennett AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6373950 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature