The potential and realized foraging movements of bees are differentially determined by body size and sociality.

ABSTRACT: Reversing biodiversity declines requires a better understanding of organismal mobility, as movement processes dictate the scale at which species interact with the environment. Previous studies have demonstrated that species foraging ranges, and therefore, habitat use increases with body size. Yet, foraging ranges are also affected by other life-history traits, such as sociality, which influence the need of and ability to detect resources. We evaluated the effect of body size and sociality on potential and realized foraging ranges using a compiled dataset of 383 measurements for 81 bee species. Potential ranges were larger than realized ranges and increased more steeply with body size. Highly eusocial species had larger realized foraging ranges than primitively eusocial or solitary taxa. We

SUBMITTER: Kendall LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9786665 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature