Data Sets
DOI of published version
https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12539
Document Type
Dataset
Keywords
Conservation Reserve Program, constructed prairie, Iowa, pollinator plants, sown plants, unsown plants, wild bees
Description
The spreadsheet documents data collected in the study described in the manuscript “Wild bee visitors and their association with sown and unsown floral resources in reconstructed pollinator habitats within an agriculture landscape”. Data included in the spreadsheet shows the name of each collected wild bee specimen and the flower species where the bee was collected. Data were used to construct the bee-pollinator network and calculate the network metrics for each study site.
Identifier
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/datasets/2/
Funders
The research was supported by the USDA Farm Service Agency (AG-3151-C-17-0013), the Iowa Science Foundation (19-17), the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, the Biology Department, the College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, and the Tallgrass Prairie Center at the University of Northern Iowa.
Grant Number
The research was supported by the USDA Farm Service Agency (AG-3151-C-17-0013), the Iowa Science Foundation (19-17), the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, the Biology Department, the College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, and the Tallgrass Prairie Center at the University of Northern Iowa.
Methodology
Data were collected in reconstructed prairie habitats in the USDA Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). All study sites were located in NE Iowa, within 1 hour driving distance from Cedar Falls, IA. We sampled bees at each site by targeted hand netting three times (June, July, and August) during the same year (2018 or 2019) that plant surveys were conducted for that site. The monthly collection frequency allowed us to sample the changing bee communities across time. The sampling interval may have missed a portion of the bee communities in between sampling events when the species turnover is high. However, during each monthly sampling event, we visited all sites (8 in 2018 and 11 in 2019) within 3–7 days, ensuring little turnover in bee community composition that might have affected the comparison of bee-floral associations among different sites. We divided each site into four quarters, and one 50 m _ 50 m plot was randomly placed in each quarter using ArcGIS software. In each plot, all bees observed during a 15-min random patrol of the plot were captured and placed into a kill jar. Handling time was not included in patrol time. The total sampling effort at each event for each site was 60 min/ha. Sampling took place on mostly sunny days between 10.00 and 14.00 hours, when the ambient air temperature was >21 _C.
Variables
Genus—Genus name of the wild bee specimen; Species—Species name of the wild bee specimen. Four specimens were unidentifiable between Hylaeus affinis and Hylaeus modestus, and were considered as H. affinis/modestus. One Melissodes nr. desponsus and 1 Melissode nr. druriellus, were combined into M. desponsus and M. druriellus, respectively. One specimen of Ceratina nr. floridana was considered as C. floridana; Floral_Source—Species name of the flower species where the bee specimen was collected; SownUnsown—Each recorded floral species was categorized as sown or unsown at each site using the seed mix provided by landowners. Species not included in the seed mix that were likely to have become established from the local seed bank were categorized as “unsown”. Species that were very unlikely to have come from the local seed bank but were also not in the seed mix provided by landowners were classified as “contamination”; CollectionYear—The year that the bee specimen was collected; CollectionMonth—The month that the bee specimen was collected; CollectionDate—The date that the bee specimen was collected; Location—The study site where the bee specimen was collected. Because the study sites were privately owned land, no exact location is provided due to the privacy of the landowners;
Start Date - End Date
June 2018-August 2019
Rights
©2021 Ai Wen, Kenneth J. Elgersma, Mark E. Sherrard, Laura L. Jackson, Justin Meissen, and Mark C. Myers.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Language
en
Viewing Instructions
Data can be found in the "Data" worksheet under the main Download button.
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Date Digital
2021
File Format
application/excel
Recommended Citation
Wen, Ai; Elgersma, Kenneth J.; Sherrard, Mark E.; Jackson, Laura L.; Meissen, Justin; and Myers, Mark C., "Wild bee visitors and floral source associations in the Conservation Reserve Program habitat in NE Iowa" (2021). Data Sets. 2.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/datasets/2
