دورية أكاديمية
Contrasting patterns of foraging behavior in neotropical stingless bees using pollen and honey metabarcoding
العنوان: | Contrasting patterns of foraging behavior in neotropical stingless bees using pollen and honey metabarcoding |
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المؤلفون: | Martins, Aline C., Proença, Carolyn E. B., Vasconcelos, Thais N. C., Aguiar, Antonio J. C., Farinasso, Hannah C., de Lima, Aluisio T. F., Faria, Jair E. Q., Norrana, Krissya, Costa, Marcella B. R., Carvalho, Matheus M., Dias, Rodrigo L., Bustamante, Mercedes M. C., Carvalho, Fernanda A., Keller, Alexander |
المساهمون: | Instituto Serrapilheira, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Fundação de Apoio a Pesquisa do Distrito Federal |
المصدر: | Scientific Reports ; volume 13, issue 1 ; ISSN 2045-2322 |
بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
سنة النشر: | 2023 |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Multidisciplinary |
الوصف: | Stingless bees are major flower visitors in the tropics, but their foraging preferences and behavior are still poorly understood. Studying stingless bee interactions with angiosperms is methodologically challenging due to the high tropical plant diversity and inaccessibility of upper canopy flowers in forested habitats. Pollen DNA metabarcoding offers an opportunity of assessing floral visitation efficiently and was applied here to understand stingless bee floral resources spectra and foraging behavior. We analyzed pollen and honey from nests of three distantly related stingless bee species, with different body size and social behavior: Melipona rufiventris , Scaptotrigona postica and Tetragonisca angustula . Simultaneously, we evaluate the local floristic components through seventeen rapid botanical surveys conducted at different distances from the nests. We discovered a broad set of explored floral sources, with 46.3 plant species per bee species in honey samples and 53.67 in pollen samples. Plant families Myrtaceae, Asteraceae, Euphorbiaceae, Melastomataceae and Malpighiaceae dominated the records, indicating stingless bee preferences for abundant resources that flowers of these families provide in the region. Results also reinforce the preference of stingless bees for forest trees, even if only available at long distances. Our high-resolution results encourage future bee-plant studies using pollen and honey metabarcoding in hyper-diverse tropical environments. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
اللغة: | English |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-023-41304-0 |
الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41304-0Test https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-41304-0.pdfTest https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-41304-0Test |
حقوق: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test |
رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.3929FD40 |
قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-023-41304-0 |
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