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1 December 2003 Capture Rates of Male Euglossine Bees across a Human Intervention Gradient, Chocó Region, Colombia
J. Tupac Otero, Juan Carlos Sandino
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Abstract

Euglossine bees are important pollinators of lowland Neotropical forests. Compared to disturbed habitats, undisturbed ones have been previously characterized by higher abundance and diversity of euglossine bees. Most past studies have relied on chemically baiting male bees at single sites within habitats. Over a two-year period, we employed a repeated-measures design in which we sampled bees at multiple sites within three different habitat types, reflecting a mosaic of human disturbance (farm, secondary forest, and old logged forest). After 22 monthly samples, a total of 2008 male bees were captured, representing 31 species in five genera: 1156 at the farm (57.6%, 21 spp.), 505 in the secondary forest (25.1%, 27 spp.), and 347 in the old logged forest (17.2%, 21 spp.). Eighty-one percent of the bees captured belonged to the five most abundant species: Eulaema cingulata, El. chocoana, Euglossa hansoni, Eg. ignita, and Eg. imperialis. These species differed significantly in capture frequencies among habitats. Eulaema cingulata, El. chocoana, and Eg. ignita were captured most frequently at the farm, while Eg. imperialis was most abundant in the secondary forest. In contrast, Eg. hansoni, the sole short-tongued species among the five, was equally abundant in the two forest habitats but occurred rarely on the farm. Additionally, habitats differed in bee composition. The high capture rates for long-proboscis species at the farm may have been due to their ability to extract nectar from flowers with long floral tubes, which probably occurred at a greater density on the farmed land than in the adjacent forests.

J. Tupac Otero and Juan Carlos Sandino "Capture Rates of Male Euglossine Bees across a Human Intervention Gradient, Chocó Region, Colombia," BIOTROPICA 35(4), 520-529, (1 December 2003). https://doi.org/10.1646/02132
Published: 1 December 2003
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KEYWORDS
Choc&oacute
Colombia
Euglossa
euglossine bees
Eulaema
human intervention gradient
pollinators
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