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Naeem M, Chen H, Li W, Hughes AC, Williams PH, Bashir NH, Miao Z, Huang J, An J. Patterns and Drivers of Bumblebee Diversity in Gansu. INSECTS 2024; 15:552. [PMID: 39057284 PMCID: PMC11276862 DOI: 10.3390/insects15070552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2024] [Revised: 07/06/2024] [Accepted: 07/17/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024]
Abstract
Understanding the influence of factors responsible for shaping community assemblage is crucial for biodiversity management and conservation. Gansu is one of the richest regions for bumblebee species in the world. We explored the distribution data of 52 bumblebee species collected in Gansu and its surroundings between 2002 and 2022, predicting habitat suitability based on 17 environmental variables using MaxEnt. The factors influencing community assemblage were assessed using canonical correspondence analysis. Net primary productivity, water vapor pressure, temperature seasonality, annual precipitation, and precipitation seasonality were some of the most influential drivers of species distributions. Based on Ward's agglomerative cluster analysis, four biogeographic zones are described: the Southern humid zone, the Western Qilian snow mountain zone, the Eastern Loess plateau zone, and the Western dry mountain zone. In the clusters of grid cells based on beta diversity values, the Southern humid zone comprised 42.5% of the grid cells, followed by the Eastern Loess plateau zone (32.5%), the Western dry mountain zone (20%), and the Western Qilian snow mountain zone (5%). Almost all the environmental factors showed a significant contribution to the assemblages of bumblebees of different groups. Our findings highlight the need for better data to understand species biogeography and diversity patterns, and they provide key baseline data for refining conservation strategies.
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- Muhammad Naeem
- College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, China
- State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Key Laboratory of Insect-Pollinator Biology of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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- College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, China
- State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Key Laboratory of Insect-Pollinator Biology of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
- Key Laboratory of Yunnan Provincial Department of Education of the Deep-Time Evolution on Biodiversity from the Origin of the Pearl River, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, China
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- College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China
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- College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Key Laboratory of Insect-Pollinator Biology of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resource Insects, Key Laboratory of Insect-Pollinator Biology of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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Lanterman Novotny J, Lybbert A, Reeher P, Mitchell RJ, Goodell K. Bumble bee banquet: Genus‐ and species‐level floral selection by Midwestern
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. Ecosphere 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023] Open
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- Jessie Lanterman Novotny
- Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio USA
- Biology Hiram College Hiram Ohio USA
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- Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio USA
- Biology Methodist University Fayetteville North Carolina USA
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- Biology The University of Akron Akron Ohio USA
- Environmental Solutions & Innovations, Inc. Ravenna Ohio USA
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- Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio USA
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Butler RG, Lage C, Dobrin SE, Staples JK, Venturini E, Frank J, Drummond FA. Maine's Bumble Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)-Part 2: Comparisons of a Common (Bombus ternarius) and a Rare (Bombus terricola) Species. ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY 2021; 50:1358-1369. [PMID: 34532731 DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvab100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
As part of a quantitative survey of Maine's bumble bee fauna (Butler et al. 2021), we compared and contrasted genetic diversity, parasite and pathogen burdens, and pesticide exposure of the relatively common Bombus ternarius Say, 1937 and the spatially rare Bombus terricola Kirby, 1837. We recorded 11 Bombus species at 40 survey sites across three Maine ecoregions, and B. ternarius was the most common species, while B. terricola was spatially rare. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling indicated that B. terricola was associated with higher elevation sites in Maine, while B. ternarius was more broadly distributed in the state. Pollinator networks constructed for each bee indicated B. ternarius foraged on more plant species than B. terricola, but that there was considerable overlap (73%) in plant species visited. Genetic diversity was greater in the spatially restricted B. terricola, whereas the widely distributed B. ternarius was characterized by greater genetic differentiation among regions. Bombus terricola had higher molecular marker levels of the microsporidian fungi Nosema spp. and the trypanosome Crithidia spp., and both species had high levels of Trypanosoma spp. exposure. No Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera, Linnaeus, 1758) viruses were detected in either species. Pesticides were not detected in pollen samples collected from workers of either species, and B. ternarius worker tissue samples exhibited only trace levels of diflubenzuron.
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- Ronald G Butler
- Department of Biology, University of Maine, Farmington, ME, USA
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- College of Arts and Sciences, University of Maine Augusta, Augusta, ME, USA
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- Collegium of Natural Sciences, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME, USA
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- Maine Wild Blueberry Commission, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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- Maine Forest Service, Department of Agriculture Conservation and Forestry, Old Town, ME, USA
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- Professor Emeritus, School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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