2e245944-ee5b-4612-b866-cafa3a129270 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:24:59 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Abundance of pollinators and diversity of bees in Ghana and the effect of urbanisation and management practices 2018-08-31 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2e245944-ee5b-4612-b866-cafa3a129270 10.5285/2e245944-ee5b-4612-b866-cafa3a129270 doi: Guenat, S., Kunin, W.E., Dougill, A.J., Dallimer, M. (2018). Abundance of pollinators and diversity of bees in Ghana and the effect of urbanisation and management practices. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/2e245944-ee5b-4612-b866-cafa3a129270 Data consists of abundance counts and diversity of pollinators collected in Ghana. Pollinators were sampled with pan-traps between August and November 2016 in 126 greenspaces spread over an urbanisation gradient and three management practices (amenity lands, farmed sites and informal greenspaces) around Sunyani and Techiman, Ghana. All insects were identified to order in the field. Samples were stored in 70% alcohol before being pinned for identification. Bees and wasps were pinned and differentiated with microscopy based on Goulet and Hubert (1993). Bees were subsequently identified with microscopy to morpho-species following Eardley, Kuhlmann and Pauly (2010). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2e245944-ee5b-4612-b866-cafa3a129270 Guenat, S. University of Leeds eesgu@leeds.ac.uk pointOfContact Guenat, S. University of Leeds eesgu@leeds.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2077-405X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Kunin, W.E. University of Leeds W.E.Kunin@leeds.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9812-2326 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Dougill, A.J. University of Leeds A.J.Dougill@leeds.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3422-8228 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Dallimer, M. Unaffiliated M.Dallimer@leeds.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8120-3309 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Apis spp. Apis mellifera Allodape spp. Amegilla spp. Anthophora Ceratina spp. Braunsapis spp. Chalicodoma spp. Lasioglossum spp. Lipotriches spp. Macrogalea spp. Megachile spp. Meliponula spp. Patellapis spp. Pseudapis spp. Seladonia spp. Tetralonia spp. Thrinchostoma spp. Xylocopa spp. Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation Pollinators Hyaleus spp. Notyhyaleus spp. otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Natural Environment Research Council otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Guenat, S., Kunin, W.E., Dougill, A.J., Dallimer, M. (2018). Abundance of pollinators and diversity of bees in Ghana and the effect of urbanisation and management practices. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/2e245944-ee5b-4612-b866-cafa3a129270 textTable 200 English utf8 biota 2016-08-01 2018-11-30 -3.343 1.206 4.489 10.887 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/2e245944-ee5b-4612-b866-cafa3a129270 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/2e245944-ee5b-4612-b866-cafa3a129270.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Bee functional diversity was determined based on the literature through a selection of traits relevant for pollinators, namely habitat, pollen specialisation, nesting behaviour, body size (inter-tegula distance measured on all specimens with a caliper), tongue length and sociality. Habitats were described by a visual estimation of the proportion of six habitat features in a 200m radius around the sampling site, namely unmanaged ground vegetation, regularly mown or grazed vegetation, shrub layer vegetation, tree layer vegetation, bare ground and concrete. We estimated the floral resources in a 1m circle around the pan-trap by (1) counting the flowering plant species richness, (2) estimating each species' flower head surface and (3) counting flower head abundance. Identification and analysis were carried out at the University of Leeds, 2017.