Connectivity and edge effects increase bee colonization in an experimentally fragmented landscape

• Published in: Ecography (Copenhagen) Vol. 44; no. 6; pp. 919 - 927
• Main Authors: Griffin, Sean R., Haddad, Nick M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2021; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Nordic Society Oikos, Wiley
• Subjects: Bees; biodiversity & conservation; Cavity nesting; Colonization; Connectivity; Corridors; Dispersal; Edge effect; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; environmental sciences & ecology; Flowers; Food resources; Fragments; habitat loss; habitat patch; Habitat selection; Habitats; isolation; landscape conservation; landscape corridors; Megachile rotundata; Nest building; Nesting; Population dynamics

Though landscape corridors increase dispersal of many animals and plants, it remains unknown whether these positive effects extend to the process of colonization and establishment of new populations in fragments. Working in experimentally fragmented landscapes, we tested how two aspects of habitat f...