Ecological Archives A025-043-A4

Ecological Archives A025-043-A4

Gideon Pisanty and Yael Mandelik. 2015. Profiling crop pollinators: life history traits predict habitat use and crop visitation by Mediterranean wild bees. Ecological Applications 25:742–752. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-0910.1

Appendix D. Supplementary information for the effect of life history traits on agricultural and crop affinities.

Table D1. Parameter estimates for the agricultural and crop affinity models.

Model type		Model term	Coefficient	SE
agricultural affinity	all species, presence-absence	intercept	3.3**	1.0
		habitat = interior	-5.2***	1.3
		habitat = edge	-2.7*	1.2
		habitat = semi-natural	0^a
		[nesting=below g.]*[habitat=interior]	2.4***	0.53
		[nesting=above g.]*[habitat=interior]	0^a
		[nesting=below g.]*[habitat=edge]	0.62	0.38
		[nesting=above g.]*[habitat=edge]	0^a
		[nesting=below g.]*[habitat=semi-natural]	-2.7*	1.1
		[nesting=above g.]*[habitat= semi-natural]	0^a
		ITD*[habitat=interior]	-0.060	0.24
		ITD*[habitat=edge]	-0.64**	0.23
		ITD*[habitat= semi-natural]	0.23	0.34
	dominant species, abundance-based	intercept	-0.60	0.037
		nesting = below g.	0.24***	0.029
		nesting = above g.	0^a
		lecty = polylectic	0.11***	0.028
		lecty = oligolectic	0^a
crop affinity	all species, presence-absence	intercept	1.6	0.21
		sociality = solitary	-1.5*	0.030
		sociality = social	0^a
		crop = sunflower	-3.8**	0.002
		crop = watermelon	0^a
		[lecty=polylectic]*[crop=sunflower]	-0.25	0.70
		[lecty=oligolectic]*[crop=sunflower]	0^a
		[lecty=polylectic]*[crop= watermelon]	1.7*	0.016
		[lecty=oligolectic]*[crop= watermelon]	0^a
		ITD*[crop= sunflower]	1.0**	0.004
		ITD*[crop= watermelon]	-1.2**	0.001
	dominant species, abundance-based	intercept	0.717***	0.116
		sociality = solitary	-0.424**	0.139
		sociality = social	0^a

* P<0.05; ** P<0.01; *** P<0.001

a This coefficient is set to zero because it is redundant.

FigD1

Fig. D1. Distribution of nesting guilds among bee species sampled from different habitats. Numbers inside columns indicate species richness.

FigD2

Fig. D2. Distribution of inter-tegular distances (ITD; median, quartiles, and range) among bee species sampled from different habitats.

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Fig. D3. Distribution of sociality and lecty among bee species sampled from crop flowers vs. the total community. Numbers inside columns indicate species richness.

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Fig. D4. Distribution of inter-tegular distances (ITD; median, quartiles, and range) among bee species sampled from crop flowers vs. the total community.

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