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Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Student Competition 10-Minute Paper

Grad P-IE: Conservation and Invasive Species

Urbanization as a filter of a regional bee species pool

Monday, November 1, 2021
11:54 AM – 12:06 PM MT
Location: Colorado Convention Center, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
In-Person Student Competition

Cleveland, Ohio is a legacy city with abundant habitat in the form of vacant lots, which supports a species rich bee community. These vacant lots are often targeted for greening initiatives such as urban agriculture or wildlife gardens of native plants. However, not all bee species known to occur in from Northeast Ohio are found within these greenspaces. Functional traits, such as body size and lecty, may influence how a bee species reacts to different stressors present in the urban environment. Using five years of bee collections from Cleveland vacant lots, we examined how the functional trait diversity of Cleveland’s bee community differed from what was expected based on random chance, given the regional pool of bee species. We found that the species living in Cleveland’s vacant lots were more functionally similar than expected based on the regional species pool of Northern Ohio, even across habitat types, suggesting that urban filters for bee species work at a landscape level, rather than working at individual habitats.