[Pollinator] Western bumble bee conservation

[Rich Hatfield]

Hi all,

Tabitha Graves and William Janousek from the USGS (with many co-authors)
recently published a new paper on western bumble bee declines in Ecosphere.
It includes some detailed occupancy modeling as well as a call to action
for researchers.

The paper is open source:  Graves TA et al. 2020. Western bumble bee:
declines in the continental United States and range‐wide information gaps.
Ecosphere *11*:99.
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecs2.3141

I also put together a story map that serves as a bit of a companion guide.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c5e591a19eb24d28af483ede7b174434

Hope you'll find both of these resources useful for your work. Feel free to
share.

Many thanks,
*Rich Hatfield *
  Senior Conservation Biologist, Endangered Species Program
  Red List Authority, IUCN Bumble Bee Specialist Group
<http://www.iucn.org/bumblebees>
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