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Land Use Change Consistently Reduces α- But Not β- and γ-Diversity of Bees
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Centro de Estudios Territoriales Ambientales y Sociales (CETAS), San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina; Instituto De Ecorregiones Andinas (INECOA), San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina.
Universidad de San Carlos de, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala.
National University of Singapore, Singapore City, Singapore.
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2025 (English)In: Global Change Biology, ISSN 1354-1013, E-ISSN 1365-2486, Vol. 31, no 1, p. 1-18, article id e70006Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Land use change threatens global biodiversity and compromises ecosystem functions, including pollination and food production. Reduced taxonomic α-diversity is often reported under land use change, yet the impacts could be different at larger spatial scales (i.e., γ-diversity), either due to reduced β-diversity amplifying diversity loss or increased β-diversity dampening diversity loss. Additionally, studies often focus on taxonomic diversity, while other important biodiversity components, including phylogenetic diversity, can exhibit differential responses. Here, we evaluated how agricultural and urban land use alters the taxonomic and phylogenetic α-, β-, and γ-diversity of an important pollinator taxon-bees. Using a multicontinental dataset of 3117 bee assemblages from 157 studies, we found that taxonomic α-diversity was reduced by 16%-18% in both agricultural and urban habitats relative to natural habitats. Phylogenetic α-diversity was decreased by 11%-12% in agricultural and urban habitats. Compared with natural habitats, taxonomic and phylogenetic β-diversity increased by 11% and 6% in urban habitats, respectively, but exhibited no systematic change in agricultural habitats. We detected a 22% decline in taxonomic γ-diversity and a 17% decline in phylogenetic γ-diversity in agricultural habitats, but γ-diversity of urban habitats was not significantly different from natural habitats. These findings highlight the threat of agricultural expansions to large-scale bee diversity due to systematic γ-diversity decline. In addition, while both urbanization and agriculture lead to consistent declines in α-diversity, their impacts on β- or γ-diversity vary, highlighting the need to study the effects of land use change at multiple scales. © 2025 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2025. Vol. 31, no 1, p. 1-18, article id e70006
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agriculture, bees, biodiversity decline, land uses, pollinators, urban
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-55281DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70006PubMedID: 39754379Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85214590696OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-55281DiVA, id: diva2:1930645
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The data and R-scripts supporting the findings of the study are openly available in Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14302883 and on GitHub at https://github.com/tpaknok/BeeLandUse. Climate data from CHELSA v1.2 are available at https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.228.v2.1. The PREDICTS database is available at https://doi.org/10.5519/0066354.

Available from: 2025-01-23 Created: 2025-01-23 Last updated: 2025-10-01Bibliographically approved

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