Nesting success of wood-cavity-nesting bees declines with increasing time since wildfire.

ABSTRACT: Bees require distinct foraging and nesting resources to occur in close proximity. However, spatial and temporal patterns in the availability and quantity of these resources can be affected by disturbances like wildfire. The potential for spatial or temporal separation of foraging and nesting resources is of particular concern for solitary wood-cavity-nesting bees as they are central-place, short-distance foragers once they have established their nest. Often the importance of nesting resources for bees have been tested by sampling foraging bees as a proxy, and nesting bees have rarely been studied in a community context, particularly postdisturbance. We tested how wood-cavity-nesting bee species richness, nesting success, and nesting and floral resources varied across gradients of wildfire

SUBMITTER: Simanonok MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6875575 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature