Undergraduate Student Work

Work/Availability

Open Access Undergraduate Student Work

Type of Work

Poster Presentation

Abstract

Recent trends in land management practices have led to dramatic population decline in bees and other insect pollinators (Cameron et al. 2011). Concerns about “Colony Collapse Disorder” in domestic honeybees, for example, have received widespread high-profile attention in the scientific community. While concerns have centered mainly on the domestic honeybee, native bees also provide indispensable, cost-free pollination services to crops production. Despite the value of native bee species, little is known about them in the Midwest region, and recent studies suggest their populations may be in decline specifically due to a lack of native vegetation in this highly agricultural landscape. Vegetable farms and lands managed for cellulosic biofuels have the potential to provide usable habitat, but their utility is not well understood.

Date of Work

2015

Department

Department of Biology

Department

Tallgrass Prairie Center

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Copyright

©2015 Andrew Ridgway, Ai Wen, Kenneth Elgersma

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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