<div dir="ltr">All:<div><br></div><div>This, indeed, is an important paper for the following reasons.</div><div><br></div><div>1. They are studing a generalist pollen bee (i.e. a bumblebee) </div><div>2. They are directly estimating mortality and survivorship (rarely done with bees....) using slick DNA techniques</div><div>3. Habitat quality and richness is difficult to measure well (people forget that is they are doing a correlational study that if they measure one thing precisely (say, bees) and another thing imprecisely (say, habitat) that your ability to detect a correlation is still low even if one is present (sneakily, one can also exploit this phenomenon if you find it inconvenient to your hidden agenda to actually detect a correlation.</div><div>4. So, even though this is a pollen generalist there is a strong relationship with diverse plant communities.</div><div>5. Thus, planting monocultures of "bee-friendly" plants is only a weak response to declining bee populations</div><div>6. Ergo, preserving, augmenting, and promoting diverse, species rich blooming plant landscapes is the best approach to bee / plant / insect conservation.</div><div><br></div><div>sam</div><div><br></div><div><div>Sam Droege <a href="mailto:sdroege@usgs.gov">sdroege@usgs.gov</a> </div><div>w 301-497-5840 h 301-390-7759 fax 301-497-5624</div><div>USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center</div><div>BARC-EAST, BLDG 308, RM 124 10300 Balt. Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705</div><div><a href="Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov">Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov</a></div><div><br></div><div>For All</div><div><br></div><div>Ah to be alive</div><div>on a mid-September morn</div><div>fording a stream</div><div>barefoot, pants rolled up,</div><div>holding boots, pack on,</div><div>sunshine, ice in the shallows,</div><div>northern rockies.</div><div><br></div><div>Rustle and shimmer of icy creek waters</div><div>stones turn underfoot, small and hard as toes</div><div>cold nose dripping</div><div>singing inside</div><div>creek music, heart music,</div><div>smell of sun on gravel.</div><div><br></div><div>I pledge allegiance</div><div><br></div><div>I pledge allegiance to the soil</div><div>of Turtle Island,</div><div>and to the beings who thereon dwell</div><div>one ecosystem</div><div>in diversity</div><div>under the sun</div><div>With joyful interpenetration for all.</div><div><br></div><div>- Gary Snyder</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:06 AM, 'Thomas Wood' <a href="mailto:woodtho4@msu.edu">woodtho4@msu.edu</a> [beemonitoring] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beemonitoring-noreply@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">beemonitoring-noreply@yahoogroups.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p></p><div class="m_2030463951768862718WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature21709.html" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/nature/<wbr>journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/<wbr>nature21709.html</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Cheers<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Tom<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">beemonitoring@<wbr>yahoogroups.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kit Prendergast <a href="mailto:kitprendergast21@gmail.com" target="_blank">kitprendergast21@gmail.com</a> [beemonitoring]<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 19, 2017 10:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> Peter Bernhardt <<a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu" target="_blank">bernhap2@slu.edu</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Bee United <<a href="mailto:beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com</a><wbr>>; Pollinator List-serv <<a href="mailto:pollinator@lists.sonic.net" target="_blank">pollinator@lists.sonic.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [beemonitoring] Fwd: Bees!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><div id="m_2030463951768862718ygrp-mlmsg"><div id="m_2030463951768862718ygrp-msg"><div id="m_2030463951768862718ygrp-text"><div><p class="MsoNormal">I can't find the link to the actual article (geez that cheeses me off when journalist's don't provide a link and reference!)<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 19 March 2017 at 21:38, Peter Bernhardt <a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu" target="_blank">bernhap2@slu.edu</a> [beemonitoring] <<a href="mailto:beemonitoring-noreply@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">beemonitoring-noreply@<wbr>yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"> <u></u><u></u></p><div id="m_2030463951768862718m_-2393691479738184597ygrp-mlmsg"><div id="m_2030463951768862718m_-2393691479738184597ygrp-msg"><div id="m_2030463951768862718m_-2393691479738184597ygrp-text"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">A friend in Australia sent the following link on bumblebee survival in flower-rich meadows. I believe the paper on which this is based was circulated recently. However, this e-magazine provides some related stories, going back several years, that may also be of use.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">Peter<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>Bill Hall</b> <<a href="mailto:wha55510@bigpond.net.au" target="_blank">wha55510@bigpond.net.au</a>><br>Date: Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 2:01 AM<br>Subject: Bees!<br>To: James Trager <<a href="mailto:james.trager@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.trager@gmail.com</a>>, Retha Meier <<a href="mailto:rmeier3@gmail.com" target="_blank">rmeier3@gmail.com</a>>, Peter Bernhardt <<a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu" target="_blank">bernhap2@slu.edu</a>><br><br><u></u><u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170315143826.htm" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedaily.com/<wbr>releases/2017/03/170315143826.<wbr>htm</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div><p></p>
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