Data release for: ‘Do the quality and quantity of honey bee-collected pollen vary across an agricultural land-use gradient?’
Dates
Publication Date
2019
Start Date
2015-06-05
End Date
2016-09-22
Citation
Simanonok, Michael P., and Otto, Clint R.V., 2019, Data release for: ‘Do the quality and quantity of honey bee-collected pollen vary across an agricultural land-use gradient?’: U.S. Geological Survey, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9DKMY4L.
Summary
This dataset includes pollen sample weight in grams and percent crude protein collected by honey bees (Apis mellifera) across 38 apiaries in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota approximately weekly from June through September in 2015 and 2016. Additionally it includes the hectares of different land covers (corn, Zea mays, & soybeans, Glycine max, grasslands, bee forage crops, and wetlands) located within a 4 km radius of each apiary.
Summary
This dataset includes pollen sample weight in grams and percent crude protein collected by honey bees (Apis mellifera) across 38 apiaries in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota approximately weekly from June through September in 2015 and 2016. Additionally it includes the hectares of different land covers (corn, Zea mays, & soybeans, Glycine max, grasslands, bee forage crops, and wetlands) located within a 4 km radius of each apiary.
These data were collected in order to assess how land cover near apiaries in the Northern Great Plains may affect the quantity or quality of pollen collected by honey bees (Apis mellifera).
