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ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Trees Are a Major Foraging Resource for Honeybees in the City.

Karen Koelzer, Alexandra Ribarits, Karin Weyermair, Johannes M Bouchal, Josef Mayr, Martina Weber

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Article in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Impact of Climate Change on the Urban TreePlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  2. Examining Honeybee (Ecology and evolution · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Karen KoelzerDivision of Structural and Functional Botany, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-8807-3439
Alexandra RibaritsDepartment for Apiculture and Bee Protection, Institute for Seed and Propagating Material, Phytosanitary Service and Apiculture, Division for Food Security, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ltd., Spargelfeldstraße 191, 1220 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0009-0004-6319-6714
Karin WeyermairDepartment for Statistics and Analytical Epidemology, Division for Data, Statistics and Risk Assessment, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ltd., Zinzendorfgasse 27/1, 8010 Graz, Austria.
Johannes M BouchalDivision of Structural and Functional Botany, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-4241-9075
Josef MayrDepartment for Apiculture and Bee Protection, Institute for Seed and Propagating Material, Phytosanitary Service and Apiculture, Division for Food Security, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ltd., Spargelfeldstraße 191, 1220 Vienna, Austria.
Martina WeberDivision of Structural and Functional Botany, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large cities are typically characterized by a mosaic of green spaces that hold a remarkable variety of native and "exotic" plants. Urban beekeeping has gained increasing popularity. In order to characterize the "urban" in the honey, pollen diversity in 50 honey samples from 18 apiary locations in Vienna, Austria, was microscopically analyzed. The relative abundances of each plant taxon were determined by counting out 500 individual pollen grains per sample. In total, 202 taxa could be identified, with a median of 46 per sample. Taxa richness and diversity differed significantly across three years but did not so between urban and suburban apiaries. Despite trees comprising only roughly a quarter of all taxa, the amount of tree pollen was disproportionally high. The invasive

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floral resourceshoneymelissopalynologyplant diversitypollen analysispollinatorsurban ecology

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