Mass-flowering crops and semi-natural habitat mediate niche overlap between honeybees and wild bees

Description

Resource competition between wild bees and managed honeybees has the potential to detrimentally impact biodiversity and pollination ecosystem services. Here, we undertook a field experiment in semi-natural grasslands in Southern Sweden to assess how floral resource use by wild bees and honeybees was affected by proximity to large apiaries and the amount of mass-flowering oilseed rape (OSR) and semi-natural habitat in the surrounding landscape. We placed large apiaries in semi-natural grasslands in landscapes of low honeybee density and commercial bumblebee colonies at four distances from the apiaries (

Period	2023 Sept 14
Event title	GfÖ Annual Meeting 2023 - 52nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland: The Future of Biodiversity – overcoming barriers of taxa, realms and scales
Event type	Conference
Conference number	52
Location	Leipzig, Germany, SaxonyShow on map