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

Sampling event
Latest version published by Vermont Center for Ecostudies on Mar 11, 2024 Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Publication date:
11 March 2024
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

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 at 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" as construction had 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.

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.

Event (core)
89
Occurrence 
1634

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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 1.8. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=uvmsolar&v=1.8

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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 U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Samplingevent

Contacts

Jason Mazurowski
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Project Coordinator
University of Vermont
Vermont
US
Spencer Hardy
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Burlington
VT
US

Geographic Coverage

Vermont

Bounding Coordinates South West [43.429, -73.389], North East [45.074, -71.51]

Taxonomic Coverage

Bees

Superfamily Apoidea

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2019-04-01 / 2021-11-01

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.

Title UVM Pollinator-friendly Solar Installations
Funding Funding provided by the Lintilhac Foundation and the Gund Institute for Environment.
Study Area Description Vermont

The personnel involved in the project:

Jason Mazurowski
  • Author

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

Study Extent 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.
Quality Control Determinations by Spencer Hardy, Sam Droege, Michael Veit, and Joan Milam

Method step description:

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

Collection Data

Collection Name Universtiy of Vermont - Gund Institute
Specimen preservation methods Pinned

Additional Metadata

Incomplete data from 2019 originally published, complete data from 2019-2021 added, with some formatting changes om 5/16/2022. A few identifications still outstanding.

Alternative Identifiers c12a720a-b381-40ce-9746-7cecb8a7735c
https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=uvmsolar