A special issue and a symposium: Advancing Wild Bee Research and Conservation Through Standardized Methods

[Brianne Du Clos]

Hi everyone,

We are excited to announce the publication of a special issue in the Journal of Melittology titled “Advancing Wild Bee Research and Conservation Through Standardized Methods.” This special issue, an output of the US National Native Bee Monitoring Research Coordination Network, was co-edited by Hollis Woodard and Hannah Levenson and features the following articles (note that some of the articles are still in “early view” while we finalize the formatting with the journal):

A call for standardization in wild bee data collection and curation by Hannah K. Levenson, Brianne Du Clos, Tamara A. Smith, Sarina Jepsen, Jeffrey G. Everett, Neal M. Williams, and S. Hollis Woodard

Improving the standardization of wild bee occurrence data: Towards a formal wild bee data standard by Brianne Du Clos, Katja Seltmann, Nash E. Turley, Clare Maffei, Erika M. Tucker, Ian G. Lane, Hannah K. Levenson, and S. Hollis Woodard

Standardized protocol for collecting community-level bee data by Hannah K. Levenson, Olivia Messinger Carril, Nash E. Turley, Clare Maffei, Gretchen LeBuhn, Terry Griswold, Neal M. Williams, Keng-Lou James Hung, Rebecca E. Irwin, Brianne Du Clos, and S. Hollis Woodard

Standardized protocols for collecting data on bee-flower interactions and the associated floral community by Daniel P. Cariveau, Keng-Lou James Hung, Neal M. Williams, David W. Inouye, Casey T. Burns, Ian G. Lane, Rebecca E. Irwin, Hannah K. Levenson, Brianne Du Clos, and S. Hollis Woodard

Estimating occupancy of focal bee species by Clint Otto, Larissa Bailey, Brianne Du Clos, Tamara A. Smith, Elaine C. Evans, Ian Pearse, Saff Killingsworth, Sarina Jepsen, and S. Hollis Woodard

Standardized protocol for collecting bee samples to generate molecular data by Margarita M Lopez-Uribe, James P. Strange, Liam Whiteman, Bryan N. Danforth, Shalene Jha, Michael G. Branstetter, Jonathan Berenguer Uhuad Koch, Hannah K. Levenson, Brianne Du Clos, and S. Hollis Woodard

Standardized protocol for collecting bee samples for parasite and pathogen data by James P. Strange, Margarita M. Lopez-Uribe, Liam Whiteman, Bryan N. Danforth, Shalene Jha, Hannah K. Levenson, Brianne Du Clos, Jonathan Berenguer Uhuad Koch, and S. Hollis Woodard

Hollis, Hannah, and I are co-hosting a symposium at EntSoc to highlight the special issue on Sunday, November 9th from 9 am - noon that is creatively titled Advancing Wild Bee Research and Conservation Through Standardized Methods. The symposium will feature talks by most of our article leads, along with talks by Victor Gonzalez about putting together the issue and Matt Forister about searching for lost insects. To learn more about the occupancy protocol, we encourage you to attend the symposium “Applications of Species Occupancy Models to Insect Population Research and Monitoring” that is co-organized by Hollis and Clint Otto on Tuesday 11/11 at 2 PM.

We hope to see you there!

Sincerely,

Brianne Du Clos, Hollis Woodard, and Hannah Levenson