Conserving the diversity of bees in farmland

保护农田蜜蜂的多样性

• 批准号: 2889866
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2889866
• 关键词: Conserving; diversity; bees; farmland

This project will conduct a programme of field research to understand how, and why, wild bee communities respond to changes in farm and landscape management, with a particular focus on the response of the ground-nesting solitary bee community to regenerative agriculture. This project stems from preliminary observations in our group suggesting that spring-flying bee communities may be more diverse, but emerge earlier, in arable farms with regenerative practices. The student will design a programme of observations and experiments over at least two years, to confirm or refute this apparent pattern, and to explore what it means for functional diversity and pollination services at larger scales. They will devise and test hypotheses to explain the mechanisms underlying differences in bee diversity, in agricultural landscapes with different structures and farms with different management.

该项目将开展一项实地研究计划，以了解野生蜜蜂群落如何以及为何应对农场和景观管理的变化，特别关注地面筑巢的独居蜜蜂群落对再生农业的反应。该项目源于我们小组的初步观察，表明春季飞行的蜜蜂群落可能更加多样化，但在具有再生实践的耕地中出现得更早。学生将设计一个至少两年的观察和实验计划，以证实或反驳这种明显的模式，并探索它对更大规模的功能多样性和授粉服务意味着什么。他们将设计并测试假设，以解释蜜蜂多样性、不同结构的农业景观和不同管理的农场中的差异背后的机制。