Eating locally: dance decoding demonstrates that urban honey bees in Brighton, UK, forage mainly in the surrounding urban area

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 411-418

  Garbuzov, Mihail ^a   Schürch, Roger ^a   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Floral resources; Pollination; Urban ecosystems; Waggle dance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939893518     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-014-0403-y     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Alton K, Ratnieks FLW (2013) To bee or not to bee. Biologist 60:12–15
2. Angold PG, Sadler JP, Hill MO, Pullin A, Rushton S, Austin K, Small E, Wood B, Wadsworth R, Sanderson R, Thompson K (2006) Biodiversity in urban habitat patches. Sci Total Environ 360:196–204
3. Bates AJ, Sadler JP, Fairbrass AJ, Falk SJ, Hale JD, Matthews TJ (2011) Changing bee and hoverfly pollinator assemblages along an urban–rural gradient. PLoS One 6:e23459
4. Batra SWT (1985) Red maple (Acer rubrum L.), an important early spring food resource for honey bees and other insects. J Kans Entomol Soc 58:169–172
5. Beekman M, Ratnieks FLW (2000) Long-range foraging by the honey-bee, Apis mellifera L. Funct Ecol 14:490–496
6. Brown LD, Cai TT, DasGupta A (2001) Interval estimation for a binomial proportion. Stat Sci 16:101–117
7. Burgett M, Caron DM, Ambrose JT (1978) Urban apiculture. In: Frankie GW, Koehler CS (eds) Perspectives in urban entomology. Academic Press, New York, pp 187–219
8. Cameron RW, Blanuša T, Taylor JE, Salisbury A, Halstead AJ, Henricot B, Thompson K (2012) The domestic garden – its contribution to urban green infrastructure. Urban For Urban Green 11:129–137
9. Çelemli ÖG (2012) Pollen morphology of some Salix L. (Salicaceae) taxa used by honey bees as a source of pollen and nectar. Mellifera 12:30–36
10. Couvillon M (2012) The dance legacy of Karl von Frisch. Insect Soc 59:297–306
11. Couvillon MJ, Riddell-Pearce FC, Harris-Jones EL, Kuepfer AM, Mackenzie-Smith SJ, Rozario LA, Schürch R, Ratnieks FL (2012) Intra-dance variation among waggle runs and the design of efficient protocols for honey bee dance decoding. Biol Open 1:467–472
12. Couvillon MJ, Schürch R, Ratnieks FLW (2014) Waggle dance distances as integrative indicators of seasonal foraging challenges. PLoS One 9:e93495
13. Crane E (1976) Honey: a comprehensive survey. William Heinemann, London
14. Davies ZG, Fuller RA, Loram A, Irvine KN, Sims V, Gaston KJ (2009) A national scale inventory of resource provision for biodiversity within domestic gardens. Biol Conserv 142:761–771
15. Dearborn DC, Kark S (2010) Motivations for conserving urban biodiversity. Conserv Biol 24:432–440
16. Ellis EC, Klein Goldewijk K, Siebert S, Lightman D, Ramankutty N (2010) Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000. Glob Ecol Biogeogr 19:589–606
17. Garbuzov M, Ratnieks FLW (2014) Ivy: an underappreciated key resource to flower-visiting insects in autumn. Insect Conserv Divers 7:91–102
18. Gaston K (ed) (2010) Urban ecology. Cambridge University Press, New York
19. Goddard MA, Dougill AJ, Benton TG (2010) Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments. Trends Ecol Evol 25:90–98
20. Hennig EI, Ghazoul J (2012) Pollinating animals in the urban environment. Urban Ecosyst 15:149–166
21. Hooper T (1991) Guide to bees and honey. Blandford, London
22. Hothorn T, Bretz F, Westfall P (2008) Simultaneous inference in general parametric models. Biom J 50:346–363
23. Kadlec T, Benes J, Jarosik V, Konvicka M (2008) Revisiting urban refuges: changes of butterfly and burnet fauna in Prague reserves over three decades. Landsc Urban Plan 85:1–11
24. Loram A, Tratalos J, Warren P, Gaston K (2007) Urban domestic gardens (X): the extent & structure of the resource in five major cities. Landsc Ecol 22:601–615
25. Matteson KC, Langellotto GA (2010) Determinates of inner city butterfly and bee species richness. Urban Ecosyst 13:333–347
26. McKinney ML (2008) Effects of urbanization on species richness: a review of plants and animals. Urban Ecosyst 11:161–176
27. Metcalfe DJ (2005) Hedera helix L. J Ecol 93:632–648
28. Mew H, Robinson C, Humphrey A, Kafka E, Oliver R, Bose S (2003) Housing in England 2001/2. A report of the survey of English housing carried out by the National Centre for Social Research on behalf of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Housing Data and Statistics Division, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, London
29. Mwebaze P, Marris GC, Budge GE, Brown M, Potts SG, Breeze TD, Macleod A (2010) Quantifying the value of ecosystem services: a case study of honeybee pollination in the UK. 12th Annual BIOECON Conference ‘From the Wealth of Nations to the Wealth of Nature: Rethinking Economic Growth’. Venice, Italy
30. Niemelä J (ed) (2011) Urban ecology: patterns, processes, and applications. Oxford University Press, New York
31. Office for National Statistics (2011) Census 2011, Table KS101EW. http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew. Accessed 8 December 2013
32. Pawlikowski T (2010) Pollination activity of bees (Apoidea: Apiformes) visiting the flowers of Tilia cordata Mill. and Tilia tomentosa Moench in an urban environment. J Apic Sci 54:73–79
33. Pinheiro J, Bates D, DebRoy S, Sarkar D, R Core Team (2013) nlme: linear and nonlinear mixed effects models. R package version 3.1–109
34. R Core Team (2013) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. http://www.R-project.org
35. Ratnieks FLW (2007) How far do honeybees forage? Beekeepers Q 89:26–28
36. Riley JR, Greggers U, Smith AD, Reynolds DR, Menzel R (2005) The flight paths of honeybees recruited by the waggle dance. Nature 435:205–207
37. Robinson RA, Sutherland WJ (2002) Post-war changes in arable farming and biodiversity in Great Britain. J Appl Ecol 39:157–176
38. Sanderson EW, Huron A (2011) Conservation in the city. Conserv Biol 25:421–423
39. Schürch R, Couvillon MJ, Burns DDR, Tasman K, Waxman D, Ratnieks FLW (2013) Incorporating variability in honey bee waggle dance decoding improves the mapping of communicated resource locations. J Comp Physiol A 199:1143–1152
40. Seeley TD (1994) Honey bee foragers as sensory units of their colonies. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 34:51–62
41. Seeley TD (1995) The wisdom of the hive. Harvard University Press, Cambridge
42. Seeley TD (2012) Progress in understanding how the waggle dance improves the foraging efficiency of honey bee colonies. In: Galizia GC, Eisenhardt D, Giurfa M (eds) Honeybee neurobiology and behavior. Springer, Dordrecht, pp 77–87
43. Seeley TD, Mikheyev AS, Pagano GJ (2000) Dancing bees tune both duration and rate of waggle-run production in relation to nectar-source profitability. J Comp Physiol A 186:813–819
44. Steffan-Dewenter I, Kuhn A (2003) Honeybee foraging in differentially structured landscapes. Proc R Soc B – Biol Sci 270:569–575
45. UK National Ecosystem Assessment (2011) The UK national ecosystem assessment: synthesis of the key findings. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge
46. United Nations (2012) World urbanization prospects, the 2011 revision. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, Population Estimates and Projections Section, New York
47. Visscher PK, Seeley TD (1982) Foraging strategy of honeybee colonies in a temperate deciduous forest. Ecology 63:1790–1801
48. von Frisch K (1967) The dance language and orientation of bees. Harvard University Press, Cambridge
49. Waddington KD, Herbert TJ, Visscher PK, Richter MR (1994) Comparisons of forager distributions from matched honey bee colonies in suburban environments. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 35:423–429
50. Zuur AF, Ieno EN, Walker NJ, Saveliev AA, Smith GM (2009) Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R. Springer, New York