| Title |
Decreasing Abundance, Increasing Diversity and Changing Structure of the Wild Bee Community (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) along an Urbanization Gradient
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2014
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0104679 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Laura Fortel, Mickaël Henry, Laurent Guilbaud, Anne Laure Guirao, Michael Kuhlmann, Hugues Mouret, Orianne Rollin, Bernard E. Vaissière |
| Abstract |
Wild bees are important pollinators that have declined in diversity and abundance during the last decades. Habitat destruction and fragmentation associated with urbanization are reported as part of the main causes of this decline. Urbanization involves dramatic changes of the landscape, increasing the proportion of impervious surface while decreasing that of green areas. Few studies have investigated the effects of urbanization on bee communities. We assessed changes in the abundance, species richness, and composition of wild bee community along an urbanization gradient. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 10 | 34% |
| United States | 5 | 17% |
| Italy | 1 | 3% |
| Colombia | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Chile | 1 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 3% |
| Ireland | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 6 | 21% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 25 | 86% |
| Scientists | 3 | 10% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 5 | <1% |
| United States | 4 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Poland | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 627 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 126 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 109 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 99 | 15% |
| Researcher | 74 | 12% |
| Professor | 23 | 4% |
| Other | 88 | 14% |
| Unknown | 124 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 298 | 46% |
| Environmental Science | 142 | 22% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 11 | 2% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 8 | 1% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 1% |
| Other | 28 | 4% |
| Unknown | 149 | 23% |