Are urban areas suitable for thermophilic and xerothermic bee species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes)?

Banaszak‐Cibicka, Weronika

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“…Urban environment presents higher temperatures compared to suburban areas. Thus, it is a convenient habitat for southern fauna (Banaszak-Cibicka 2014). This pattern is especially visible in Citadel Park which is probably because of the specific climate conditions of this area.…”

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City parks vs. natural areas - is it possible to preserve a natural level of bee richness and abundance in a city park?

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Urbanisation is an expansive process and a majority of insects live in human-modified areas. At the same time, a decrease in pollinator species richness and abundance has recently been observed in Europe, which in turn may have serious ecological and economic consequences. This study investigates the abundance, species richness and functional traits of wild bees in urban city parks in comparison to natural areas. The aim of this research was to assess the potential conservation values of urban green areas for bees. The present study demonstrates that a large and diversified city park may be a favourable habitat for bees, comparable to the natural fauna both in terms of the number and abundance of bee species. However, the study also showed that there were differences in the occurrence of species with different functional traits in the city parks investigated and in the natural landscape.

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City parks vs. natural areas - is it possible to preserve a natural level of bee richness and abundance in a city park?

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“…Understanding the effect of urbanisation on pollinator assemblages and their conservation in urban areas is very important, as cities can support many species -not only common species, but also rare ones -with particular habitat requirements (Banaszak-Cibicka, 2014). Moreover, pollinators are critically important for ensuring effective pollination of both cultivated and wild plants, which themselves are sometimes of conservation value.…”

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Are all urban green spaces a favourable habitat for pollinator communities? Bees, butterflies and hoverflies in different urban green areas

Dylewski

Maćkowiak

Banaszak‐Cibicka

2019

Ecological Entomology

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1. Urban ecosystems create suitable habitats for many plant and animal species, including pollinators. However, heterogenic habitats in city centres and suburban areas have various effects on pollinators due to variations in the composition of vegetation and in landscape management by humans.2. This study compared the abundance and species richness of three main groups of pollinators -wild bees, butterflies, and hoverflies -in Poznań, western Poland, and in three different types of urban green areas -urban grasslands, urban parks, and green infrastructure in housing estates.3. The total abundance of pollinators was higher in urban grasslands than in housing estates and urban parks. Species composition of pollinator communities differed between the three habitat types.4. The study results showed that species richness and abundance of butterflies varied between habitat types, whereas no such differences were found in the case of wild bees and hoverflies. Cover of green area, vegetation structure, and plant height were important for the pollinator community; however, these variables had different effects depending on habitat type. 5. These findings revealed that not all urban green areas are equally valuable in terms of local biodiversity. High-quality urban habitats such as urban grasslands are capable of supporting rich and abundant populations of pollinators. Therefore, it is important to protect high-value urban green areas and simultaneously strive to improve intensively managed urban habitats through effective planning and new management practices.

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“…Moreover, cities can provide suitable habitats not only for common species but also for rare and declining ones with specific requirements, e.g. species with higher thermal requirements, which in cities have favorable conditions for development (Banaszak-Cibicka 2014). These findings are in contrast to the general belief that the development of urban areas leads to biotic homogenisation, as was shown for diverse taxa (McKinney 2006;Morelli et al 2016).…”

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Are cities hotspots for bees? Local and regional diversity patterns lead to different conclusions

Banaszak‐Cibicka

Żmihorski

2020

Urban Ecosyst

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With the decline of natural habitats, there is an ongoing debate about the importance of the urban environment for pollinating insects. Our research assessed patterns in wild bee species composition, as well as α-, βand γ-diversity patterns and the nestedness structure in urban, suburban and rural areas. For three years bees were collected along 18 sampling transects in the Poznań area in western Poland. The average species diversity (α-diversity) and the average number of specimens per sample (local abundance) did not differ significantly between the three classes of urbanization. The rarefaction analysis, however, was partly contradictory to the results recorded on the local scale. The highest dissimilarity in the species composition among the samples was observed in the rural areas, while the lowest (more homogenous) was in the urban areas. The differences were significant. This resulted in the highest γ-diversity (cumulative number of species) in the rural areas and the lowest in the urban areas. Furthermore, the bee community in the habitats studied was significantly nested, indicating that species-poor sites (sites with high rank) constituted subsets of species-rich sites (sites with low rank) and that this pattern was not random. Samples collected in urban areas had a significantly higher nestedness rank compared to samples from the other two classes of urbanization, thus suggesting that the urban bee community is a subset of the rural bee community. This is an important conclusion, which emphasises that different components of species diversity need to be screened to identify the real biological impact of urbanisation on bee communities.

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Are urban areas suitable for thermophilic and xerothermic bee species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes)?

Cited by 27 publications

References 29 publications

City parks vs. natural areas - is it possible to preserve a natural level of bee richness and abundance in a city park?

City parks vs. natural areas - is it possible to preserve a natural level of bee richness and abundance in a city park?

Are all urban green spaces a favourable habitat for pollinator communities? Bees, butterflies and hoverflies in different urban green areas

Are cities hotspots for bees? Local and regional diversity patterns lead to different conclusions

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