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We are living in a period of unprecedented global change where even the most remote areas of the planet are influenced by the activities of man. Modern landscapes have been highly modified to accommodate a growing human population that is forecast to peak at 9.1 billion by 2050. Over this past century, human reliance on goods and services from ecosystems has greatly increased and sustainability of our modern and intensively managed ecosystems has been a topic of serious national and international concern. Not surprisingly, sustainability of ecosystems has become an explicitly stated goal of many agencies and, in some cases, has been legislatively mandated to ensure the provisioning of resources for future generations....
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Land use was quantified within a 4-km radius around 36 apiaries in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota over two years, 2015-16 and 2016-17. The area (hectares) of Ag (corn, soy, small grains), Grass (pasture, grassland, fallow land, wildflowers, shrub land, and hay land), Wetlands (herbaceous and woody), and Bee crops (alfalfa, canola, sunflower) were quantified around each apiary in each year. Within each apiary, the average change in frames of adult bees among all colonies from June to September was calculated. Additionally, the average September Varroa mite infestation rate, the average adult population size during almond pollination, the count of colonies exhibiting queen events in September, and the count...
Categories: Data;
Tags: California,
Central Valley,
Great Plains,
Great Plains region,
Midwest, All tags...
Minnesota,
North Dakota,
South Dakota,
agriculture,
almonds,
beekeeping,
bees,
biofuel crops,
disease,
ecosystem services,
grasslands,
habitats,
honey bees,
land use,
land use and land cover,
pollination,
pollinators,
pollinators, Fewer tags
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The ILM community includes researchers from the USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (NPWRC). The ScienceBase community space will be used to catalog and aggregate important information resouces for the ILM, including data derived from associated long-term projects. Web services may be used to provide cataloged information to other applications, including websites and visualization tools.
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These data were collected to fulfill multiple Inter-agency agreements established by US Geological Survey and multiple partners: US Department of Agriculture-Farm Service Agency, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Honey Bee Health Coalition. In this study USGS scientists conducted floral resource and insect pollinator assessments across multiple land covers in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota from 2015 to 2019. Sampling was done along 2x20m transects in June through September by a single observer. All transects were located on private or public grasslands such as Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands, Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) lands, managed pasture, haylands,...
Categories: Data;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Minnesota,
North Dakota,
Northern Great Plains,
Prairie Pothole Region,
South Dakota, All tags...
bee,
environment,
flower,
insect,
plant,
pollinator, Fewer tags
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These data describe land use (summed hectares of agricultural crops: corn, soy, and small grains), individual honey bee nutrition, honey bee colony population size, and proportional honey bee colony survival among 36 apiaries across Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Categories: Data;
Tags: California,
Central Valley,
Great Plains,
Great Plains region,
Midwest, All tags...
Minnesota,
North Dakota,
South Dakota,
agriculture,
almonds,
beekeeping,
bees,
biofuel crops,
ecosystem services,
environment,
farming,
grasslands,
habitats,
honey bee,
land use,
land use and land cover,
pollination,
pollinators,
pollinators, Fewer tags
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