European bee diversity: Taxonomic and phylogenetic patterns

Aim
Wild bees still face striking shortfalls in knowledge of biodiversity in key regions of the world. This includes Europe, where despite a long tradition of data gathering, the continental scale distribution patterns of wild bees have not been systematically analysed to date. This study aims to characterise large-scale biodiversity patterns to: (i) understand spatial-temporal heterogeneity in large-scale databases, (ii) locate genuine diversity hotspots and their relationship with biogeographical patterns or habitats of interests, and (iii) identify understudied species and areas to further design conservation actions for most at risk species in key regions.
Location
Europe
Taxon
Bees
Methods
We present a continental and standardised study of bee taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity patterns in Europe, using a large compilation of occurrence records of nearly three million validated occurrence records for 1,515 wild bee species.
Results
Southern and eastern Europe suffer from the ..., The dataset contains species occurrence data aggregated to a grid shapefile. The data is avaiable separated by source but also joined as a single database. Also included are the spreadsheets of wild bee binomial scientific names and the corrections made to these names. See file: README.txt for full details. , Shapefiles, CSV files and code were all loaded and analyzed using R statistics software.Â