Surveys of the bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) community in and around solar installations

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 89 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Mazurowski J, Hardy S (2024). Surveys of the bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) community in and around solar installations. Version 1.9. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=uvmsolar&v=1.9

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Vermont Center for Ecostudies. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c12a720a-b381-40ce-9746-7cecb8a7735c.  Vermont Center for Ecostudies publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Samplingevent

Contacts

Jason Mazurowski

• Metadata Provider ●
• Originator ●
• Point Of Contact

Project Coordinator

University of Vermont

Vermont

US

Jason.Mazurowski@uvm.edu

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jason_Mazurowski

Spencer Hardy

• Originator ●
• Point Of Contact

Vermont Center for Ecostudies

Burlington

VT

US

shardy@vtecostudies.org

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-2271

Geographic Coverage

Vermont

Taxonomic Coverage

Bees

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

Bees collected with bee bowls in conjunction with a study of pollinator-friendly solar installations in Vermont. 2019 & 2020 surveys were part of pilot study to develop sampling protocols at solar sites. Surveys continued in 2021 as some, but not all of the pilot sites. 2021 Surveys were conducted at pollinator-friendly solar fields and at corresponding conventional solar fields to be used as reference sites. Some sites were in their "native state" and construction has not yet begun, while others were completed and seeded with pollinator-friendly native perennials. Each solar site was given the same site prep treatment, and seeded with the same pollinator mix developed by Bee the Change.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

All surveys were conducted using the pan trap method, with transects placed adjacent to the solar facility, outside of the fence line. Each transect consisted of 15 bowls: 5 white, 5 blue, 5 red. Bowls were spaced ~5 meters from each other in an alternating pattern and collected 24 hours later

Method step description:

1. 15 (5 each white, blue, yellow) bee bowls were deployed at each site for ~24 hours.

Collection Data

Additional Metadata