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ArticleScientific data2026

A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions.

Sajad Noori, Alice C Hughes, Thais N C Vasconcelos, John S Ascher, Jared T Miller, Sarah M Gaugel, Madeleine M Ostwald, James B Dorey, Victor H Gonzalez, Aline C Martins and 2 more

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Article in Scientific data, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Sajad NooriState Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. sajad.noori@smns-bw.de.ORCID 0000-0002-9933-6713
Alice C HughesDepartment of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4899-3158
Thais N C VasconcelosDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA.
John S AscherDepartment of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Jared T MillerFlorida Museum of Natural History, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Sarah M GaugelState Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Madeleine M OstwaldSchool of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
James B DoreyEnvironmental Futures Research Centre, School of Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Victor H GonzalezBiodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
Aline C MartinsDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA.
Michael C Orr *State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. Michael.orr@smns-bw.de.
Katja C Seltmann *Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA. seltmann@ucsb.edu.

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) DBI-2101851National Science Foundation (NSF) DBI-2102006
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bees are one of the most important pollinators in terrestrial ecosystems, supporting biodiversity and food production. However, global knowledge of their interactions with host plants remains limited. To address this, we describe and refine a subset of the Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) database focused on bee-plant interactions. We updated taxonomy using current checklists and enhanced the dataset with metadata on geography, endemism, and human uses of plants. The resulting dataset includes 981,982 unique interaction records between 5,537 bee species and 12,699 plant taxa. Despite its scale, the dataset is affected by strong taxonomic and geographic biases. It covers only 26% of described bee species and 4% of flowering plant taxa-primarily those used by humans-and is heavily skewed toward North America and Western Europe. Nevertheless, GloBI represents a valuable resource for incorporating bee-plant interactions into biodiversity and conservation-oriented research and represents a considerable advance in our current knowledge.

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PlantsPollinationAnimalsBeesBiocurationBiodiversity

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PMID41794860
PMCPMC12993026

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