Assessing wild bees in perennial bioenergy landscapes: effects of bioenergy crop composition, landscape configuration, and bioenergy crop area

Graham, John B.; Nassauer, Joan I.; Currie, William S.; Ssegane, Herbert; Negri, M. Cristina

doi:10.1007/s10980-017-0506-y

Assessing wild bees in perennial bioenergy landscapes: effects of bioenergy crop composition, landscape configuration, and bioenergy crop area

Journal Article · Sat Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Landscape Ecology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-017-0506-y· OSTI ID:1372293

Graham, John B. ^[1]; Nassauer, Joan I. ^[2]; Currie, William S. ^[2]; Ssegane, Herbert ^[3]; Negri, M. Cristina ^[4]

Lake Superior State Univ., Sault Sainte, Marie, MI (United States)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
The Climate Corp., Chesterfield, MO (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)

Wild bee populations are currently under threat, which has led to recent efforts to increase pollinator habitat in North America. Simultaneously, U.S. federal energy policies are beginning to encourage perennial bioenergy cropping (PBC) systems, which have the potential to support native bees. Our objective was to explore the potentially interactive effects of crop composition, total PBC area, and PBC patches in different landscape configurations. Using a spatially-explicit modeling approach, the Lonsdorf model, we simulated the impacts of three perennial bioenergy crops (PBC: willow, switchgrass, and prairie), three scenarios with different total PBC area (11.7%, 23.5% and 28.8% of agricultural land converted to PBC) and two types of landscape configurations (PBC in clustered landscape patterns that represent realistic future configurations or in dispersed neutral landscape models) on a nest abundance index in an Illinois landscape. Our modeling results suggest that crop composition and PBC area are particularly important for bee nest abundance, whereas landscape configuration is associated with bee nest abundance at the local scale but less so at the regional scale. Moreover, strategies to enhance wild bee habitat should therefore emphasize the crop composition and amount of PBC.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1372293

Journal Information:: Landscape Ecology, Journal Name: Landscape Ecology Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 32; ISSN 0921-2973

Publisher:: SpringerCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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