Efecto de la configuración del paisaje en las comunidades de abejas (Apoidea) de un mosaico de bosque pino-encino y áreas agrí­colas de Sacatepéquez y Chimaltenango

Natalia Escobedo Kenefic; Marí­a José Dardón Peralta; Jessica Esmeralda López; Oscar Martí­nez; Edson Cardona

doi:10.36829/63CTS.v1i1.1

Authors

Natalia Escobedo Kenefic Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas y Biológicas
María José Dardón Peralta Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas y Biológicas
Jessica Esmeralda López Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas y Biológicas
Oscar Martínez Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas y Biológicas
Edson Cardona Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas y Biológicas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36829/63CTS.v1i1.1

Abstract

Comparison was raised in three landscape categories (continuous forest, fragmented forest and agricultural or farming areas) in Sacatepéquez and Chimaltenango, Guatemala; defined on the basis of their degree of fragmentation and types of land use, during the dry and rainy seasons of 2012. It sought to determine patterns of bee diversity variation among the three landscape categories, and identify changes in community composition. The results point towards two general situations: (1) Difference in bee diversity was observed in different types of vegetation, this being highest at sites corresponding to the fragmented forest category. This category has a greater heterogeneity in landscape configuration, composed of fragmented forest and agricultural areas. In addition, the continuous forest category had higher abundance of individuals, both in the dry and rainy seasons. (2) Some degree of clustering of the sampling sites was observed, but it seems to respond to geographical closeness among them rather than to differences in land use. Also, frequency of floral visits made by bees to different botanical families are reported. The protection of forest remnants, both fragmented and continuous, is highly recommended in order to preserve pollination services given by native bees to natural and agricultural systems in the study area.

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