Thermal biology of bee pollinators from montane Mediterranean habitats

A study was undertaken to assess the diversity in thermal biology of the bee assemblage that pollinates plants in a Mediterranean montane area of southeastern Spain, evaluate its taxonomic and phylogenetic underpinnings, and elucidate whether there existed seasonal, daily, between-habitat or floral visitation correlates of bee thermal biology which could contribute to partition ecological gradients among plant and bee species. Thermal biology parameters were obtained in the laboratory and the field on individual bees of a diverse sample comprising most bee pollinators of the regional plant community. Species-specific thermal biology parameters were combined with quantitative field data on bee pollinators and flower visitation for the regional community of entomophilous plants (Herrera 2023).This data repository consist of 5 data files and 1 code script:<i>bee.ML.supertree.nwk</i><br>Text file with the phylogenetic supertree of world bees in Newick format (Henríquez-Piskulich et al. 2024)<i>raw.K.data.csv</i><br>Delimited text file with thermal constant (<i>K</i>) estimates in the laboratory for <i>N</i> = 645 individual bees. Self-explanatory variable names are in the first row.<i>raw.T.data.csv</i><br>Delimited file with field measurements of thoracic (ti) and air (tair) temperature of <i>N</i> = 1936 individual bees. Self-explanatory variable names are in the first row.<i>species.means.T</i><br>Delimited text file with species means for thoracic temperature (mean.ti), thermal excess (mean.texc) and body mass (mean.peso) for 95 bee species.<i>Pollinator.census.thermal.data.Rda</i><br>Binary file in R format with bee thermal and census data. <i>R.script.for.analyses</i><br>R script for running analysesReferencesHenríquez-Piskulich, P., A. F. Hugall, and D. Stuart-Fox. 2024. A supermatrix phylogeny of the world’s bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 190:107963.Herrera, C. M. (2023) Thermal biology of bee pollinators: diversity and community-level correlates. <i>bioRxiv</i> Preprint. doi:10.1101/2023.11.27.568883

本研究旨在评估西班牙东南部地中海山地生境中为植物传粉的蜂类群的热生物学多样性，解析其分类学与系统发育基础，并阐明蜂类热生物学特征是否存在季节、昼夜、生境间或与访花行为相关的关联——这类关联或可推动植物与蜂类物种间的生态梯度分化。
研究通过实验室与野外两种途径，对涵盖该区域植物群落多数传粉蜂类的多样化样本中的单个蜂体开展热生物学参数测定。将物种特异性热生物学参数与该区域虫媒植物群落的传粉蜂类及访花行为的量化野外调查数据相结合（Herrera 2023）。

本数据集仓库包含5个数据文件与1个代码脚本：
1. <i>bee.ML.supertree.nwk</i>：采用Newick格式的全球蜂类系统发育超树文本文件（Henríquez-Piskulich等，2024）
2. <i>raw.K.data.csv</i>：分隔符文本文件，包含<i>N</i> = 645头单个蜂体的实验室热常数（<i>K</i>）估算值，第一行变量名称清晰易懂。
3. <i>raw.T.data.csv</i>：分隔符文本文件，包含<i>N</i> = 1936头单个蜂体的胸部温度（ti）与空气温度（tair）野外实测数据，第一行变量名称清晰易懂。
4. <i>species.means.T</i>：分隔符文本文件，包含95种蜂类的胸部温度均值（mean.ti）、热过剩均值（mean.texc）与体质量均值（mean.peso）。
5. <i>Pollinator.census.thermal.data.Rda</i>：R格式二进制文件，存储蜂类热生物学与普查数据。
6. <i>R.script.for.analyses</i>：用于运行分析的R脚本。

参考文献
Henríquez-Piskulich, P., A. F. Hugall, 与 D. Stuart-Fox. 2024. 全球蜂类（膜翅目：蜜蜂下目）的超级矩阵系统发育树. 《分子系统发育与进化》190:107963.
Herrera, C. M. (2023) 传粉蜂类的热生物学：多样性与群落级关联. bioRxiv预印本. doi:10.1101/2023.11.27.568883