The proportion of impervious surfaces at the landscape scale structures wild bee assemblages in a densely populated region

• Published in: Ecology and evolution Vol. 6; no. 18; pp. 6599 - 6615
• Main Authors: Geslin, Benoît, Le Féon, Violette, Folschweiller, Morgane, Flacher, Floriane, Carmignac, David, Motard, Eric, Perret, Samuel, Dajoz, Isabelle
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.09.2016; Wiley Open Access; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Bees; Biodiversity; community ecology; Composition effects; Ecology, environment; gradient; Landscape; landscape scale; Life Sciences; Nesting; Original Research; Population density; Populations and Evolution; Resource availability; Scale (ratio); Species richness; Stormwater; Urbanization; France; urbanization; landscape scale; Bees; community ecology; gradient

Given the predicted expansion of cities throughout the world, understanding the effect of urbanization on bee fauna is a major issue for the conservation of bees. The aim of this study was to understand how urbanization affects wild bee assemblages along a gradient of impervious surfaces and to dete...