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Scheimpflug lidar range profiling of bee activity patterns and spatial distributions

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ANIMAL BIOTELEMETRY
卷 10, 期 1, 页码 -

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SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1186/s40317-022-00285-z

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Lidar; Remote sensing; Entomology; Landscape ecology; Pollination; Honeybees

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  1. Idagaardfonden, Denmark
  2. Innovation Foundation, Denmark
  3. Swedish Research Council
  4. Norsk Elektro Optikk AS, Norway
  5. Formas Sweden
  6. Juni and Aage V. Jensen Nature Foundations, Denmark

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This study utilized entomological lidar in a clover seed crop to profile the activity of honeybees and other insects, demonstrating the ability to record high numbers of insects in a short time period. The spatial model derived was able to effectively separate honeybees from wild insects, providing valuable insight into the distribution and activity of bees in relation to their hives and surrounding environment.
Background Recent declines of honeybees and simplifications of wild bee communities, at least partly attributed to changes of agricultural landscapes, have worried both the public and the scientific community. To understand how wild and managed bees respond to landscape structure it is essential to investigate their spatial use of foraging habitats. However, such studies are challenging since the foraging behaviour of bees differs between species and can be highly dynamic. Consequently, the necessary data collection is laborious using conventional methods and there is a need for novel methods that allow for automated and continuous monitoring of bees. In this work, we deployed an entomological lidar in a homogenous white clover seed crop and profiled the activity of honeybees and other ambient insects in relation to a cluster of beehives. Results In total, 566,609 insect observations were recorded by the lidar. The total measured range distribution was separated into three groups, out of which two were centered around the beehives and considered to be honeybees, while the remaining group was considered to be wild insects. The validity of this model in separating honeybees from wild insects was verified by the average wing modulation frequency spectra in the dominating range interval for each group. The temporal variation in measured activity of the assumed honeybee observations was well correlated with honeybee activity indirectly estimated using hive scales as well as directly observed using transect counts. Additional insight regarding the three-dimensional distribution of bees close to the hive was provided by alternating the beam between two heights, revealing a funnel like distribution around the beehives, widening with height. Conclusions We demonstrate how lidar can record very high numbers of insects during a short time period. In this work, a spatial model, derived from the detection limit of the lidar and two Gaussian distributions of honeybees centered around their hives was sufficient to reproduce the observations of honeybees and background insects. This methodology can in the future provide valuable new information on how external factors influence pollination services and foraging habitat selection and range of both managed bees and wild pollinators.

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