Native Bee Assemblages in an Alabama Temperate Forest, 2021-2022

Data from the Department of Agriculture documents bee assemblages in the Tuskegee National Forest, Alabama. The dataset contains 1,494 bee captures representing 38 taxa from 15 genera and 5 families, sampled from canopy and understory strata using blue vane traps from April-October 2021 and March-October 2022. It records abundance, species richness, and Simpson diversity metrics for vertical strata across two years.

Use Cases

• Modeling vertical stratification effects on pollinator abundance based on canopy vs. understory trap data.
• Analyzing seasonal and inter-annual variation in bee community composition.
• Comparing species diversity metrics like Simpson diversity between different forest strata.
• Studying the habitat preferences of specific bee species mentioned, such as Lasioglossum bruneri or Bombus impatiens.

Strengths

• Contains 1,494 individual bee captures, providing a substantive sample size.
• Covers two full sampling seasons (2021 and 2022) for temporal comparison.
• Explicitly compares two vertical strata (canopy at 20m and understory at 1m) at four sites with replication.
• Identifies 38 distinct bee taxa across 5 families, offering taxonomic detail.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single national forest in Alabama, USA.

Provenance

Source

Department of Agriculture

Collection Method

Sampling with blue vane traps deployed at four forest sites, with replicates in canopy and understory.

Time Range

April-October 2021 and March-October 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 22:46:42.180341; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tuskegee National Forest, Macon County, Alabama, USA