Urban bumblebees diversify their foraging strategy to maintain nutrient intake

Anthropogenic ecosystems can alter individual functions and ecological processes such as resource use and species interactions. While variability on morphological traits involved in dietand resource use has been observed between urban and non-urban populations of pollinators, theconsequences on the dietary and pollen transportation patterns remain poorly understood. Here, we investigate the variability in the diet breadth of rural and urban individuals of two bumblebeespecies and the consequences for nutrient intake and pollen transportation. We show that urbanbumblebees exhibit a broader diet breadth than their rural counterparts, driven by the enhancedfloral diversity in cities. However, we found that the nutrient intake remained similar across urbanand rural ecosystems. Finally, we found distinct pollen transportation patterns between urban andrural individuals. Our findings highlight the importance of considering complementary facets of species’ diet and interactions when assessing ..., , , # Urban bumblebees diversify their foraging strategy to maintain nutrient intake

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[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.59zw3r2jn](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.59zw3r2jn)

## General information

The following repository includes the necessary information regarding the data and code to repeat the analyses for the manuscript \"**Urban bumblebees diversify their foraging strategy to maintain nutrient intake**\". The repository Dryad repository provides the process data, the R project structure, and the code. The raw data that is also necessary is archived externally (repository ENVIDAT and NCBI) but described in this repository with guidance on how to download it and re-use it in the sections below.

This dataset has been generated following intraspecific trait measurements on bumblebees (published in Eggenberger et al., 2019, [https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13051](https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13...,