Monitoring bee health in European agro-ecosystems using wing morphology and fat bodies - Anses - Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail
Article Dans Une Revue One Ecosystem Année : 2021

Monitoring bee health in European agro-ecosystems using wing morphology and fat bodies

Denis Michez
Matthias Albrecht
  • Fonction : Auteur
Eleanor Attridge
  • Fonction : Auteur
Marie-Pierre Chauzat
Cecilia Costa
Pilar de la Rua
Guillaume Ghisbain
Anina Knauer
  • Fonction : Auteur
Victor Lefebvre
  • Fonction : Auteur
Piotr Medrzycki
  • Fonction : Auteur
Risto Raimets
José Serrano

Résumé

Current global change substantially threatens pollinators, which directly impacts the pollination services underpinning the stability, structure and functioning of ecosystems. Amongst these threats, many synergistic drivers, such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, increasing use of agrochemicals, decreasing resource diversity, as well as climate change, are known to affect wild and managed bees. Therefore, reliable indicators for pollinator sensitivity to such threats are needed. Biological traits, such as phenotype (e.g. shape, size and asymmetry) and storage reserves (e.g. fat body size), are important pollinator traits linked to reproductive success, immunity, resilience and foraging efficiency and, therefore, could serve as valuable markers of bee health and pollination service potential. This data paper contains an extensive dataset of wing morphology and fat body content for the European honeybee ( Apis mellifera ) and the buff-tailed bumblebee ( Bombus terrestris ) sampled at 128 sites across eight European countries in landscape gradients dominated by two major bee-pollinated crops (apple and oilseed rape), before and after focal crop bloom and potential pesticide exposure. The dataset also includes environmental metrics of each sampling site, namely landscape structure and pesticide use. The data offer the opportunity to test whether variation in the phenotype and fat bodies of bees is structured by environmental factors and drivers of global change. Overall, the dataset provides valuable information to identify which environmental threats predominantly contribute to the modification of these traits.

Dates et versions

anses-03793131 , version 1 (30-09-2022)

Identifiants

Citer

Maryse Vanderplanck, Denis Michez, Matthias Albrecht, Eleanor Attridge, Aurélie Babin, et al.. Monitoring bee health in European agro-ecosystems using wing morphology and fat bodies. One Ecosystem, 2021, 6, pp.e63653. ⟨10.3897/oneeco.6.e63653⟩. ⟨anses-03793131⟩

Collections

ANSES
29 Consultations
0 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

More