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Investigating temporal patterns of a native bee community in a remnant North American bunchgrass prairie using blue vane traps Public Deposited

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  • Native bees are important ecologically and economically because their role as pollinators fulfills a vital ecosystem service. Pollinators are declining due to various factors, including habitat degradation and destruction. Grasslands, an important habitat for native bees, are particularly vulnerable. One highly imperiled and understudied grassland type in the United States is the Pacific Northwest Bunchgrass Prairie. No studies have examined native bee communities in this prairie type. To fill this gap, the bee fauna of the Zumwalt Prairie, a large, relatively intact remnant of the Pacific Northwest Bunchgrass Prairie, was examined. Native bees were sampled during the summers of 2007 and 2008 in sixteen 40-ha study pastures on a plateau in northeastern Oregon, using a sampling method not previously used in grassland studies-blue vane traps. This grassland habitat contained an abundant and diverse community of native bees that experienced marked seasonal and inter-annual variation, which appears to be related to weather and plant phenology. Temporal variability evident over the entire study area was also reflected at the individual trap level, indicating a consistent response across the spatial scale of the study. These results demonstrate that temporal variability in bee communities can have important implications for long-term monitoring protocols. In addition, the blue vane trap method appears to be well-suited for studies of native bees in large expanses of grasslands or other open habitats, and may be a useful tool for monitoring native bee communities in these systems.
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  • Keywords: Grasslands, Native bees, Bee monitoring, Community composition
  • Keywords: Grasslands, Native bees, Bee monitoring, Community composition
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  • Kimoto C, DeBano SJ, Thorp RW, Rao S, Stephen WP. 2012. Investigating temporal patterns of a native bee community in a remnant North American bunchgrass prairie using blue vane traps. Journal of Insect Science 12:108.
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  • This project was supported by an Oren Pollak Research Grant from The Nature Conservancy to CK, a USDA National Research Initiative grant (#2006-35101- 16572), and an EPA STAR grant (#RD83456601-0).
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