[Pollinator] [beemonitoring] Fwd: Bees! [1 Attachment]

Sun Mar 19 09:52:25 PDT 2017

All:

This, indeed, is an important paper for the following reasons.

1.  They are studing a generalist pollen bee (i.e. a bumblebee)
2.  They are directly estimating mortality and survivorship (rarely done
with bees....) using slick DNA techniques
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.
4.  So, even though this is a pollen generalist there is a strong
relationship with diverse plant communities.
5.  Thus, planting monocultures of "bee-friendly" plants is only a weak
response to declining bee populations
6.  Ergo, preserving, augmenting, and promoting diverse, species rich
blooming plant landscapes is the best approach to bee / plant / insect
conservation.

sam

Sam Droege  sdroege at usgs.gov
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USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
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Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov

For All

Ah to be alive
on a mid-September morn
fording a stream
barefoot, pants rolled up,
holding boots, pack on,
sunshine, ice in the shallows,
northern rockies.

Rustle and shimmer of icy creek waters
stones turn underfoot, small and hard as toes
cold nose dripping
singing inside
creek music, heart music,
smell of sun on gravel.

I pledge allegiance

I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetration for all.

- Gary Snyder

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:06 AM, 'Thomas Wood' woodtho4 at msu.edu
[beemonitoring] <beemonitoring-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> [Attachment(s) <#m_2030463951768862718_TopText> from Thomas Wood included
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> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature21709.html
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> Cheers
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> Tom
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> 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!)
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> On 19 March 2017 at 21:38, Peter Bernhardt bernhap2 at slu.edu
> [beemonitoring] <beemonitoring-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Peter
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> From: *Bill Hall* <wha55510 at bigpond.net.au>
> Date: Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 2:01 AM
> Subject: Bees!
> To: James Trager <james.trager at gmail.com>, Retha Meier <rmeier3 at gmail.com>,
> Peter Bernhardt <bernhap2 at slu.edu>
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> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170315143826.htm
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> Carvell et al (2017) Flower strips increases bumblebee survival between
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