TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kendall, Liam K.
A1  - Rader, Romina
A1  - Gagic, Vesna
A1  - Cariveau, Daniel P.
A1  - Albrecht, Matthias
A1  - Baldock, Katherine C. R.
A1  - Freitas, Breno M.
A1  - Hall, Mark
A1  - Holzschuh, Andrea
A1  - Molina, Francisco P.
A1  - Morten, Joanne M.
A1  - Pereira, Janaely S.
A1  - Portman, Zachary M.
A1  - Roberts, Stuart P. M.
A1  - Rodriguez, Juanita
A1  - Russo, Laura
A1  - Sutter, Louis
A1  - Vereecken, Nicolas J.
A1  - Bartomeus, Ignasi
T1  - Pollinator size and its consequences: Robust estimates of body size in pollinating insects
JF  - Ecology and Evolution
N2  - Body size is an integral functional trait that underlies pollination-related ecological processes, yet it is often impractical to measure directly. Allometric scaling laws have been used to overcome this problem. However, most existing models rely upon small sample sizes, geographically restricted sampling and have limited applicability for non-bee taxa. Allometric models that consider biogeography, phylogenetic relatedness, and intraspecific variation are urgently required to ensure greater accuracy. We measured body size as dry weight and intertegular distance (ITD) of 391 bee species (4,035 specimens) and 103 hoverfly species (399 specimens) across four biogeographic regions: Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. We updated existing models within a Bayesian mixed-model framework to test the power of ITD to predict interspecific variation in pollinator dry weight in interaction with different co-variates: phylogeny or taxonomy, sexual dimorphism, and biogeographic region. In addition, we used ordinary least squares regression to assess intraspecific dry weight ~ ITD relationships for ten bees and five hoverfly species. Including co-variates led to more robust interspecific body size predictions for both bees and hoverflies relative to models with the ITD alone. In contrast, at the intraspecific level, our results demonstrate that the ITD is an inconsistent predictor of body size for bees and hoverflies. The use of allometric scaling laws to estimate body size is more suitable for interspecific comparative analyses than assessing intraspecific variation. Collectively, these models form the basis of the dynamic R package, “pollimetry,” which provides a comprehensive resource for allometric pollination research worldwide.
KW  - Apoidea
KW  - biogeography
KW  - body size
KW  - dry weight
KW  - pollimetry
KW  - pollination
KW  - predictive models
KW  - R package
KW  - Syrphidae
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-325705
VL  - 9
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - De Palma, Adriana
A1  - Abrahamczyk, Stefan
A1  - Aizen, Marcelo A.
A1  - Albrecht, Matthias
A1  - Basset, Yves
A1  - Bates, Adam
A1  - Blake, Robin J.
A1  - Boutin, Céline
A1  - Bugter, Rob
A1  - Connop, Stuart
A1  - Cruz-López, Leopoldo
A1  - Cunningham, Saul A.
A1  - Darvill, Ben
A1  - Diekötter, Tim
A1  - Dorn, Silvia
A1  - Downing, Nicola
A1  - Entling, Martin H.
A1  - Farwig, Nina
A1  - Felicioli, Antonio
A1  - Fonte, Steven J.
A1  - Fowler, Robert
A1  - Franzen, Markus Franzén
A1  - Goulson, Dave
A1  - Grass, Ingo
A1  - Hanley, Mick E.
A1  - Hendrix, Stephen D.
A1  - Herrmann, Farina
A1  - Herzog, Felix
A1  - Holzschuh, Andrea
A1  - Jauker, Birgit
A1  - Kessler, Michael
A1  - Knight, M. E.
A1  - Kruess, Andreas
A1  - Lavelle, Patrick
A1  - Le Féon, Violette
A1  - Lentini, Pia
A1  - Malone, Louise A.
A1  - Marshall, Jon
A1  - Martínez Pachón, Eliana
A1  - McFrederick, Quinn S.
A1  - Morales, Carolina L.
A1  - Mudri-Stojnic, Sonja
A1  - Nates-Parra, Guiomar
A1  - Nilsson, Sven G.
A1  - Öckinger, Erik
A1  - Osgathorpe, Lynne
A1  - Parra-H, Alejandro
A1  - Peres, Carlos A.
A1  - Persson, Anna S.
A1  - Petanidou, Theodora
A1  - Poveda, Katja
A1  - Power, Eileen F.
A1  - Quaranta, Marino
A1  - Quintero, Carolina
A1  - Rader, Romina
A1  - Richards, Miriam H.
A1  - Roulston, T’ai
A1  - Rousseau, Laurent
A1  - Sadler, Jonathan P.
A1  - Samnegård, Ulrika
A1  - Schellhorn, Nancy A.
A1  - Schüepp, Christof
A1  - Schweiger, Oliver
A1  - Smith-Pardo, Allan H.
A1  - Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf
A1  - Stout, Jane C.
A1  - Tonietto, Rebecca K.
A1  - Tscharntke, Teja
A1  - Tylianakis, Jason M.
A1  - Verboven, Hans A. F.
A1  - Vergara, Carlos H.
A1  - Verhulst, Jort
A1  - Westphal, Catrin
A1  - Yoon, Hyung Joo
A1  - Purvis, Andy
T1  - Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes: Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases
JF  - Scientific Reports
N2  - Land-use change and intensification threaten bee populations worldwide, imperilling pollination services. Global models are needed to better characterise, project, and mitigate bees' responses to these human impacts. The available data are, however, geographically and taxonomically unrepresentative; most data are from North America and Western Europe, overrepresenting bumblebees and raising concerns that model results may not be generalizable to other regions and taxa. To assess whether the geographic and taxonomic biases of data could undermine effectiveness of models for conservation policy, we have collated from the published literature a global dataset of bee diversity at sites facing land-use change and intensification, and assess whether bee responses to these pressures vary across 11 regions (Western, Northern, Eastern and Southern Europe; North, Central and South America; Australia and New Zealand; South East Asia; Middle and Southern Africa) and between bumblebees and other bees. Our analyses highlight strong regionally-based responses of total abundance, species richness and Simpson's diversity to land use, caused by variation in the sensitivity of species and potentially in the nature of threats. These results suggest that global extrapolation of models based on geographically and taxonomically restricted data may underestimate the true uncertainty, increasing the risk of ecological surprises.
KW  - bee community
KW  - land-use change
KW  - intensification
KW  - geographic biases
KW  - taxonomic biases
KW  - global dataset
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-167642
VL  - 6
ER  -