[Mitarbeiter.zoologie] Fwd: New paper on global bee distribution

[Julia Osterman]

Thanks Robert!
And for all, I also attach some papers that I recently came across.

1. Gishbain et al. 2020:

Wildlife conservation strategies should incorporate both taxon identity and
geographical context - further evidence with bumblebees

They find species-specific associations with climatic and land cover
variables, depicting the strong relevance of taxon-specific mitigation
strategies for the conservation of those key pollinators.


2. Outhwaite et al. 2020:

Complex long-term biodiversity change among invertebrates, bryophytes and
lichens

In this paper, the authors show how complex biodiversity change is and that
the baseline is important.


3. Tamburini et al. 2020:

Agricultural diversification promotes multiple ecosystem services without
compromising yield


enjoy reading!

Julia

Am Fr., 20. Nov. 2020 um 08:27 Uhr schrieb Robert Paxton <
robert.paxton at zoologie.uni-halle.de>:

> Dear All,
>
> Please see below for details of a new paper of bee biodiversity across the
> world.
>
> Robert
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Michael Orr <michael.christopher.orr at gmail.com>
> *Subject: **New paper on global bee distribution*
> *Date: *20 November 2020 at 01:31:03 CET
> *To: *Michael Orr <michael.christopher.orr at gmail.com>, "Alice C. Hughes" <
> Achughes at xtbg.ac.cn>, "Ascher, John Stoskopf" <dbsajs at nus.edu.sg>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
>
> I'm happy to share a new open-access paper with you all on global patterns
> of bee richness and associated drivers:
> https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31596-7 (also
> attached to this email)
>
> It was quite a bit of work, not possible without John Ascher and Pick's
> DiscoverLife checklist and Alice Hughes' invaluable modeling expertise,
> along with the support of Chao-Dong Zhu and Douglas Chesters. It is
> difficult to summarize everything contained in this paper but the abstract
> is as follows (there is much more hidden away in the paper, I promise,
> especially the supplement):
>
> Insects are the focus of many recent studies suggesting population
>> declines, but even
>> invaluable pollination service providers such as bees lack a modern
>> distributional
>> synthesis. Here, we combine a uniquely-comprehensive checklist of bee
>> species
>> distributions and >5,800,000 public bee occurrence records to describe
>> global patterns
>> of bee biodiversity. Publicly-accessible records are sparse, especially
>> from developing
>> countries, and are frequently inaccurate throughout much of the world,
>> consequently
>> suggesting different biodiversity patterns from checklist data. Global
>> analyses reveal
>> hotspots of species richness, together generating a rare bimodal
>> latitudinal richness
>> gradient, and further analyses suggest that xeric areas, solar radiation,
>> and non-forest
>> plant productivity are among the most important global drivers of bee
>> biodiversity.
>> Together, our results provide a new baseline and best practices for
>> studies on bees
>> and other understudied invertebrates.
>
>
> I hope you all enjoy the paper and that it might prove useful for your
> work. If you have any queries, I am happy to chat further on this subject.
> This is just a first step and there's much more we can do to improve these
> models and we definitely want to use higher-resolution in the future. More
> yet to come!
>
>
> -Michael
>
>
> PS I'm also including PDFs of two taxonomy-centric articles I've put out
> with collaborators in the last year. Perhaps less broadly-applicable to all
> of you, but hopefully still appreciated!
>
>
>
>
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-- 
Julia Osterman
PhD candidate
General Zoology
Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
jul.osterman at gmail.com

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
julia.osterman at ufz.de <julia.goss at ufz.de>
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