Fredo Garcia, a Research Technician at the University of New Mexico, explains the long-term bee monitoring project of the Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research program. New Mexico is a global hotspot of bee diversity. Monthly bee trapping at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge forms the core of the world’s longest continuous bee monitoring program. The research addresses the question, How do climate-driven changes in resource landscapes affect bee biodiversity and abundance? This project estimates the abundances of 325 species of bees in three dryland ecosystem types to improve understanding of how bee populations and communities are changing over time. Additional work, led by graduate student Melanie Kazenel, takes physiological measurements of bees to help understand how bee traits predict their sensitivities to climate and environmental variability.
This work is part of the Sevilleta LTER project funded by the National Science Foundation.
Video by Felina Martinez
Music: Gradual Sunrise by David Hilowitz [ Ссылка ]
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Melanie Kazenel
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