Bee-mediated pollen transport across five urban landscape features: Buildings are important barriers

Urbanization alters insect pollinator diversity and foraging distances, while also providing novel pollinator habitats. Common landscape features that are characteristic of urban sprawl, such as roads and buildings, may alter the ability of insect pollinators to move and forage throughout the urban landscape. Given increased interest in urban pollinator conservation, more empirical information is needed about the spatial effects of cities on movement of pollinators and pollen.
In this study, we aimed to quantify the effects of common urban landscape features on insect pollinator movement. We focused on roads, buildings, forest fragments, lawns, and community gardens. We studied 5 community garden sites, and the landscape features surrounding them, in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. To measure pollinator movement across each feature, we placed clusters of potted cucumber plants on either side of a feature and added fluorescent dye powder to the stamens of the flowers. After 7 hours, we col..., , , # Data from: Bee-mediated pollen transport across five urban landscape features: Buildings are important barriers

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.w9ghx3g08](10.5061/dryad.w9ghx3g08)

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In this study, we aimed to quantify the effects of common urban landscape features on insect pollinator movement. We focused on roads, buildings, forest fragments, lawns, and community gardens. We studied 5 community garden sites, and the landscape features surrounding them, in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. To measure pollinator movement across each feature, we placed clusters of potted cucumber plants on either side of a feature and added fluorescent dye powder to the stamens of the flowers. After 7 hours, we collected and counted the number of fluorescent dye powder grains transferred to each cucumber stigma. We conducted 10-minute visitation observations at each cluster to assess the pollinator community and to assess whether low visitation was linked to low dy...,