Saving the honeybees in Berlin? A case study of the urban beekeeping boom

Lorenz, Stephan; Stark, Kerstin

doi:10.1080/23251042.2015.1008383

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“…Our findings demonstrate largely positive effects of urbanisation on honeybee colony success, complementing a growing body of evidence suggesting that urban areas may also support populations of wild pollinators (Baldock et al 2015;Hall et al 2016;. While this has positive implications for the recent rise in urban beekeeping (Lorenz and Stark 2015), it is important to note that our findings also serve to highlight the poor suitability of modern agricultural habitats for honeybees and many other pollinator taxa. Consequently, conservation efforts should focus on improving these habitats for pollinators.…”

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Urbanisation is associated with reduced Nosema sp. infection, higher colony strength and higher richness of foraged pollen in honeybees

2020

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Bees are vital pollinators, but are faced with numerous threats that include loss of floral resources and emerging parasites amongst others. Urbanisation is a rapidly expanding driver of land-use change that may interact with these two major threats to bees. Here we investigated effects of urbanisation on food store quality and colony health in honeybees (Apis mellifera) by sampling 51 hives in four different land-use categories: urban, suburban, rural open and rural wooded during two seasons (spring and autumn). We found positive effects of urban land use on colony strength and richness of stored pollen morphotypes, alongside lower late-season Nosema sp. infection in urban and suburban colonies. Our results reveal that honeybees exhibit lower colony performance in strength in rural areas, adding to the growing evidence that modern agricultural landscapes can constitute poor habitat for insect pollinators.

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Section: Spring Autumnsupporting

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Urbanisation is associated with reduced Nosema sp. infection, higher colony strength and higher richness of foraged pollen in honeybees

2020

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“…These initiatives are often portrayed as conservation initiatives aimed at saving bees, increasing wildflower pollination, and connecting people with nature. From a beekeeper's perspective, bringing hives into natural or urban areas can decrease exposure to agrochemicals and increase the diversity of nectar sources for honey production and nutrition (Lorenz & Stark ). However, these areas often have high native‐bee diversity (e.g., Hendrix et al ; Bates et al ; Tonietto et al.…”

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Questioning public perception, conservation policy, and recovery actions for honeybees in North America

Colla

MacIvor

2017

Conservation Biology

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“…As has been stated, bees can be both a bridge and gateway: as a bridge, they can provide a way of (re)connecting human and nonhuman nature, and as a gateway, they can guide humans to a deeper understanding and connection with urban natures. In recent years, there has been a significant uptake of urban beekeeping and an increase in pollinator research, especially on the European honeybee, Apis mellifera (Deveau, 2016;Lorenz & Stark, 2015;Wright, 2017). Apis mellifera has become something of a charismatic micro-fauna or flagship species (Matteson & Langellotto, 2010).…”

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Communing with Bees: A Whole-of-Community Approach to Address Crisis in the Anthropocene

Marshman

2019

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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We are currently facing myriad socio-ecological crises, from global climate change to resource depletion to the loss of dozens of species every day. Despite a longstanding and impassioned environmental movement, these problems persist and are worsening. The extent and degree of human-induced change on the planet is significant enough to have placed us in a new geological age: the Anthropocene. Three perspectives are engaged as a way to understand this new era and address our fractured human-nature relationship: (1) political ecology, (2) the ecological humanities, and (3) the informal economy. An exploration of intersecting themes leads to the start of a new theoretical contribution, which manifests at the

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Saving the honeybees in Berlin? A case study of the urban beekeeping boom

Cited by 62 publications

References 18 publications

Urbanisation is associated with reduced Nosema sp. infection, higher colony strength and higher richness of foraged pollen in honeybees

Urbanisation is associated with reduced Nosema sp. infection, higher colony strength and higher richness of foraged pollen in honeybees

Questioning public perception, conservation policy, and recovery actions for honeybees in North America

Communing with Bees: A Whole-of-Community Approach to Address Crisis in the Anthropocene

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