A long-term dataset on wild bee abundance in Mid-Atlantic United States.

ABSTRACT: With documented global declines in insects, including wild bees, there has been increasing interest in developing and expanding insect monitoring programs. Our objective here was to organize, validate, and share an analysis-ready version of one of the few existing long-term monitoring datasets for wild bees in the United States. Since 1999, the Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab (BIML) of the United States Geological Survey has sampled wild-bee communities in the Mid-Atlantic U.S., but samples were collected in multiple studies and the datasets are not fully integrated. Furthermore, critical information about sampling methodology was often lacking, though these factors can significantly influence collection outcomes and must be considered in analyses. We cleaned and verified BIML data

SUBMITTER: Kammerer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7371858 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature