pollen specialization

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Definition

Restriction of pollen foraging to a subset of available flowers, with specialist bees termed oligoleges restricting foraging within a plant genus, subfamily, or family

Related Terms (18)

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diet generalizationforaging breadthfloral diet richnessdiet richnessheterospecific moveheterospecific move probabilityresource specialization

Publications (12)

student_paper

How season length and diet breadth limit mason bee success across an elevational gradient

2023

article

Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

2022Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

student_paper

The effects of environmental variation on daily abundance patterns and diet breadth of bumble bee species

2022

article

Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

2021Oecologia

student_paper

What are the bees' needs? Analyzing the diet breadth for three Rocky Mountain Bumble Bees

2020

article

Interactions between bee foraging and floral resource phenology shape bee populations and communities

2017Current Opinion in Insect Science

other

Pollinator traits and competitive context shape dynamic foraging behavior in bee communities

2017bioRxiv

student_paper

Does bumble bee (<i>Bombus spp.</i>) diet breadth vary with differences in floral resource abundance?

2017

pollen specialization

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Definition

Related Terms (18)

Publications (12)

How season length and diet breadth limit mason bee success across an elevational gradient

Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

The effects of environmental variation on daily abundance patterns and diet breadth of bumble bee species

Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

What are the bees' needs? Analyzing the diet breadth for three Rocky Mountain Bumble Bees

Interactions between bee foraging and floral resource phenology shape bee populations and communities

Pollinator traits and competitive context shape dynamic foraging behavior in bee communities

Does bumble bee (<i>Bombus spp.</i>) diet breadth vary with differences in floral resource abundance?

Related Concepts (10)

Pollinator-Plant Interactions

foraging efficiency

floral resource phenology

flight season length

foraging investment

phenological mismatch

brood parasitism

resource allocation

caste system

macronutrient composition

Frequently Associated Species

Bumble Bees

Bombus

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

Buff-tailed Bumble Bee

Bombus sylvicola

Bombus vagans

Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee

Golden-belted Bumble Bee

Two-form Bumble Bee

Hymenoptera

Use of Low Quality Pollen by Asteraceae-Specialist Osmia Mason Bees (<i>Hymenoptera: Megachilidae</i>)

Does Bumble Bee Diet Breadth vary with the Floral Abundance in a Meadow?

Quantifying within-season floral trait distributions of flowers in Colorado Rocky Mountain sub-alpine dry meadows.

Asteraceae pollen specialization affects vulnerability to brood parasitism in mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae).