Sarah Lou Malick-Wahls from DataverseNO Harvested Dataverse produced these data for a study on bumblebee populations. The dataset compares Bombus species richness and abundance on semi-natural grasslands in southeastern Norway under varying sheep grazing intensities, ranging from 0 to 1,680 initially released animals. It was last updated on June 21, 2026.
Use Cases
- Modeling the relationship between bumblebee abundance and grazing intensity based on the described disturbance gradient.
- Testing the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis using the described habitat variables like sward height and flower availability.
- Analyzing the impact of habitat features such as distance to forest and meadow size on pollinator communities.
- Correlating bumblebee species richness with environmental factors like litter and bare soil availability mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Data supports a specific ecological hypothesis test (Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis).
- Includes a defined range of grazing intensities from 0 to 1,680 initially released sheep.
- Considers multiple habitat variables: distance to forest, meadow size, sward height, and availability of flowers, litter, and bare soil.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Geographic coverage is limited to southeastern Norway.
Provenance
- Source
- DataverseNO Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Field observations on semi-natural grasslands, analyzed with Bayesian hierarchical models.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-21 10:10:12; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Semi-natural grasslands in southeastern Norway.