Pilot Study of Wild Bees in Working Sugar Maple Stands

Spencer Hardy1, Nathaniel Sharp2, Michael Veit3, Steve Faccio4, Steve Hagenbuch5, Brendan Fisher6, Liza Morse6, Anthony D'Amato6

1 Vermont Center for Ecostudies, ; 2 Vermont Center of Ecostudies, ; 3 Independent, ; 4 Vermont Center for Ecostudies, ; 5 Audubon, ; 6 University of Vermont, 

Corresponding author(s): Spencer Hardy (shardy@vtecostudies.org)Nathaniel SharpMichael VeitSteve Faccio

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Resource Citation

Hardy S, Sharp N, Veit M, Faccio S (2023): Pilot Study of Wild Bees in Working Sugar Maple Stands. v1.5. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=maple&v=1.5

Abstract

This was a pilot study of native bee communities in sugar maple stands that are used to harvest sap for syrup production in northern Vermont, USA. Sampling was part of a larger project: Evaluating the Efficacy of Audubon Vermont’s Bird-Friendly Maple: Can Managing Sugarbushes for Birds Provide Additional Benefits to Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Forest Resilience?  Work for this data set was partially funded by the Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC). More information can be found at https://nsrcforest.org/project/evaluating-efficacy-audubon-vermont%E2%80%99s-bird-friendly-maple-project-sugarbushes.

Keywords: Samplingevent

Project details

Project title: Vermont Atlas of Life
Personnel: Kent McFarland

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=maple

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Bees
Taxonomic ranks
Infraorder: Anthophila
Common names: Bees

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Northern Vermont, USA
Coordinates: 44°5'42''N and 45°0'14.4''N Latitude; 73°19'22.8''W and 71°50'24''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: April 27, 2021 - May 20, 2021

Methods

Method step description: NA
Study extent description: Seven working sugar maple stands in northern Vermont. Six sites were surveyed once, one site was surveyed twice.
Sampling description: Three locations at each sugar maple stand were surveyed using 15 bee bowls each (5 white, 5 blue, 5 yellow). Bee bowls were set on the forest floor 3-5 meters apart along a transect through mixed hardwood forest. Bowls were left for the equivalent of a full day, either from early morning to early evening, or for 24 hours. All bees caught were pinned, labeled, and identified as part of the Vermont Wild Bee Survey at the Vermont Atlas of Life.
Quality control description: Identifications were completed by Spencer Hardy and Michael Veit.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Pilot Study of Wild Bees in Working Sugar Maple Stands
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/archive.do?r=maple
Publication date of data: 2023-03-07
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-02-07
Hierarchy level: Dataset