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According to Dearborn and Kark (2009) there are seven possible motivations for urban biodiversity conservation: preserving local biodiversity, creating stepping stones to nonurban habitat, understanding and facilitating responses to environment change, conducting environmental education, providing ecosystem services, fulfilling ethical responsibilities, and improving human well-being. Although expansion of urban areas are among the human activities that result in the loss of native fauna and flora (McKinney, 2008), there is evidence that cities can provide potential resources for the animal species living within them or in their surroundings, including arthropods such as bees (Nates

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Capítulo 1-Contribuição das fêmeas de Epicharis (Anepicharis) dejeanii Lepeletier, 1841 (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Centridini) de duas populações do litoral paulista para o nicho trófico da espécie.