Villagómez, Gemma Nydia ; Keller, Alexander ; Rasmussen, Claus ; Lozano, Pablo ; Donoso, David A. ; Blüthgen, Nico ; Leonhardt, Sara Diana (2024)
Nutrients or resin? – The relationship between resin and food foraging in stingless bees.
In: Ecology and Evolution, 2024, 14 (2)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00027115
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Item Type: | Article | ||||
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Type of entry: | Secondary publication | ||||
Title: | Nutrients or resin? – The relationship between resin and food foraging in stingless bees | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Date: | 12 June 2024 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Year of primary publication: | February 2024 | ||||
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Ecology and Evolution | ||||
Volume of the journal: | 14 | ||||
Issue Number: | 2 | ||||
Collation: | 18 Seiten | ||||
DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00027115 | ||||
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Origin: | Secondary publication DeepGreen | ||||
Abstract: | Stingless bees are important pollinators in tropical forests. Yet, we know little about their foraging behavior (e.g., their nutritional requirements or their floral sources visited for resource collection). Many stingless bees not only depend vitally on pollen and nectar for food but also on resin for nest building and/or defense. However, it is unclear whether the large effort devoted to collecting resin as a non‐food resource by certain stingless bees affects their foraging behavior. Therefore, in this study, we analyzed differences in foraging patterns (i.e., foraging activity, proportion of collected resources, and specialization in plants visited) and resource nutritional composition (i.e., sucrose amount in nectar and amino acids in pollen) of seven different stingless bee species (eleven wild colonies) in north‐western Ecuador with a particular focus on the role of resin collection. We found that species with a high resin intake tended to be more active than species with a low resin intake. The foragers per minute invested for pollen collection were similar across all species. Sucrose intake per minute differed between some species but was not affected by increased resin intake. Interestingly, high and low resin collectors partly differed in the plants visited for pollen collection. Pollen amino acid profiles largely, but not completely, overlapped between the two resin collection groups. Our findings show that the foraging patterns and plant choices of stingless bees may vary depending on their resin intake, highlighting the need for more research focusing on resin collection and use by stingless bees. |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | DNA metabarcoding, interaction networks, Meliponini, nectar, resource collection | ||||
Identification Number: | Artikel-ID: e10879 | ||||
Status: | Publisher's Version | ||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-271157 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 570 Life sciences, biology 500 Science and mathematics > 590 Animals (zoology) |
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Divisions: | 10 Department of Biology > Ecological Networks | ||||
Date Deposited: | 12 Jun 2024 11:49 | ||||
Last Modified: | 13 Jun 2024 07:37 | ||||
SWORD Depositor: | Deep Green | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/27115 | ||||
PPN: | 519056949 | ||||
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