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.
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How to cite
Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset. 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
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Geographic Coverage
Vermont
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [43.429, -73.389], North East [45.074, -71.51] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Bees
| Superfamily | Apoidea |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2019-04-01 / 2021-11-01 |
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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 |
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| Funding | Funding provided by the Lintilhac Foundation and the Gund Institute for Environment. |
| Study Area Description | Vermont |
The personnel involved in the project:
- 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. |
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| Quality Control | Determinations by Spencer Hardy, Sam Droege, Michael Veit, and Joan Milam |
Method step description:
- 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 |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Pinned |
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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 |
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| https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=uvmsolar |