Bees in the Trees Cornell Collection (CORN-URBAN)
This is the raw bee occurence data Urban-Mead, K.R., Muñiz, P., Gillung, J., Espinoza, A., Fordyce, R., van Dyke, M., McArt, S.H. and Danforth, B.N., 2021. Bees in the trees: Diverse spring fauna in temperate forest edge canopies. Forest Ecology and Management, 482, p.118903. This work expands our understanding of habitats where bees are likely foraging and reveals vertically stratified behavior. We emphasize deciduous forests as an important habitat for wild bee conservation and recommend further research into the behavior and diets of bees occupying the canopy, speculating that females forage for anemophilous tree pollen. Forest management plans that conserve above-ground deadwood may provide nest sites for wood-nesting bees.
Contact: Kass Urban-Mead (kru4@cornell.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b1ef1a9f-5f75-4fba-8a5b-273886d05123
DwC-Archive Publishing: https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial International)
Rights Holder: Cornell University
Collection Statistics
- 3,001 occurrence
- 3,001 (100%) georeferenced
- 2,658 (89%) identified to species
- 7 families
- 16 genera
- 77 species
- 77 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
