occurrencedata_beesbf

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Coulibaly D, Stein K (2018): occurrencedata_beesbf. v1.0. Station d'Ecologie de Lamto. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt-cotedivoire.gbif.fr/resource?r=occurrencedata_beesbf&v=1.0

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Station d'Ecologie de Lamto. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

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Keywords

Occurrence; Burkina Faso; Bees; Apidae; Halictidae; Colletidae; Megachilidae; Specimen

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

The Ecology Station of Lamto is an ecological research station located in the center of Côte d'Ivoire. Founded in 1962 by two French scientists, Maxime Lamotte and Jean-Luc Tournier, the station of Lamto is both a geophysical measurement center and a tropical ecological center. It is attached to Nangui Abrogoua University of Abidjan.

Taxonomic Coverage

The captured bees have been identified from the family to the species. We obtained 4 families of bees.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

This research project was designed to enable the digitization of data on West Africa bees. These data concern those of Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso. They will make it possible to know the diversity of bees in West Africa because, nowadays the species of bees are still little known in this zone. The role of bees in the improvement of agricultural yield justifies all the interest for this study.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

Bees were sampled using colored cupels traps (white, blue, yellow). They were caught every month for two years in natural savannas areas and in the fields during the flowering period.

Method step description:

1. Four sampling plots of each 5400 m2 (60m x 90m) were chosen in near-natural savannah habitats and in nearby fields of the main cash crops of this area (cotton, sesame) at each study site (Figure 2), resulting in a total number 36 sampling plots. Each sampling plot comprised four sampling blocks (15m x 30m) spaced to 30 m. In each block six traps were installed in a distance of 15 m. In total, we set up 864 traps (24 traps per sampling plot; 288 traps per site). Cotton and sesame fields chosen to capture bees in were located at a maximum distance of 2km from the near-natural savanna sites. (Figure 2). Pantraps were used to sample honey bees and wild bees. UV-bright yellow, white and blue 500ml plastic bowls were placed in the height of ca. 1m above the ground in the savanna sites and fields; filled with salt (NaCl) saturated water and a small drop of detergent (liquid soap) were left out for 72h during each sampling round. Bees were sampled once each month in the savanna plots and every 2 weeks in the fields due to the shorter flowering period of the crops. Specimens of bees were collected, stored in alcohol, and thereafter pinned and identified to genus or species (voucher specimens are held at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels).

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