Meeting Abstract

P1.28  Saturday, Jan. 4 15:30  Mid-summer urban bee community diversity on a campus in the Marmara Region of western Turkey BURROWS, S.J.*; PASCUAL, C.J.; GONZALEZ , V.H; CAKMAK, I.; Utah State University; University of Maryland, College Park; Southwestern Oklahoma State University; Uludağ University skyler.burrows@aggiemail.usu.edu

Urban expansion affects the nesting materials and substrates available to bee communities as well as floral hosts that would normally occur in an area. We investigated the bee communities in several distinct habitats on the campus of Uludağ University, located in the southern Marmara region of western Turkey, in Bursa. Our goal was to compare the bee communities in open field, forested and highly disturbed areas of campus. We surveyed bees in transects using a mixture of pantraps and net collections radiating from heavily disturbed unmanaged flower patches near the center of campus to wooded meadows near the outside edge with intermediately disturbed sites between the two. From 20 June to 22 July 2013, we collected over one hundred species of bees from twenty five genera. Mid-summer bee diversity and abundance were highest in disturbed areas and lowest in the less disturbed wooded areas.