Bee community and trait-based responses to fire in a Mediterranean landscape

Fire is a major global disturbance affecting the evolution of organisms and shaping plant and animal diversity, especially in fire-prone regions like the Mediterranean. Yet its impacts on insect-pollinator communities remain poorly understood.
We conducted a 3-year study on a Greek island, examining spatial and temporal impacts of fire on bee communities and species’ functional traits. We compared bee diversity and population sizes in burnt and unburnt sites, by including in our analysis fire severity metrics using dNBR (differenced Normalized Burn Ratio) derived from satellite imaging.
We show that fire initially led to increased bee abundance despite having a strong negative impact on floral resources.
Burnt and unburnt communities differed significantly in species composition revealing that specific bee taxa drove post-fire recovery. In post-fire year 1, the population spike in burnt sites was driven by an increased abundance of below-ground nesters, excavators, and trophic generalis..., , # Bee community and trait-based responses to fire in a Mediterranean landscape

**Metadata for the manuscript:**
Title: Bee community and trait-based responses to fire in a Mediterranean landscape
Authors: Georgios Nakas, Aphrodite Kantsa, Lazaros Neokosmidis, Jelle Devalez, Thomas Tscheulin, Nikos Koutsias, Mark C. Mescher, Consuelo Μ. De Moraes, & Theodora Petanidou
Journal: Insect Conservation and Diversity

**Information about the dataset:**
We examined the effects of a wildfire on wild bee communities in a Mediterranean island system. Data were collected over three consecutive years at burnt and unburnt sites on Chios Island, North Aegean, Greece. We assessed changes in bee abundance, species richness, and functional traits, as well as their relationships with fire severity and floral resource availability across the post-fire landscape.

Data contain two files:

### Nakas_et_al_Insect_Conservation_Diversity_Bee_Data.csv

* Family = The family of the bee species that was collected....,