Insect-plant interactions of the Sydney Region
| Field | Value | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | Lequerica Tamara, Manuel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Latty, Tanya | |
| dc.contributor.author | Threlfall, Caragh | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hochuli, Dieter | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Sydney, NSW, Australia | en_AU |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 2019-2020 | en_AU |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-12T03:16:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-12T03:16:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-05-12 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33892 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This data set contains the interactions and behaviours of of insects (Honey bees and hover flies) with plants recorded in Sydney, NSW between Winter 2019 and Autumn 2022 | en_AU |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_AU |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 | en_AU |
| dc.subject | Honey bees | en_AU |
| dc.subject | hover flies | en_AU |
| dc.subject | pollinators | en_AU |
| dc.subject | urban ecology | en_AU |
| dc.subject | resource overlap | en_AU |
| dc.title | Insect-plant interactions of the Sydney Region | en_AU |
| dc.type | Dataset | en_AU |
| dc.subject.asrc | ANZSRC FoR code::31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES::3103 Ecology::310399 Ecology not elsewhere classified | en_AU |
| dc.relation.arc | DE200101226 | |
| dc.description.method | We surveyed 30 sites across four seasons (Winter 2019-Autumn 2020) during favorable weather conditions (sunny/partly cloudy, winds <30 km/h, <50% rain chance, temperatures >10°C). Sites were randomly visited within each three-month seasonal period. At each site, we conducted a 20-minute, 100-meter transect survey, recording all insect-plant interactions within 2.5 meters of the transect line. An interaction was defined as an insect making contact with any plant part or hovering ≤10 cm above a plant for >2 seconds. Plants were identified to species level using the NSW Flora Online system. Insects were collected via sweep net for identification, with survey timing paused during capture. Hover flies were identified to species level where possible using Thompson's (2011) unpublished keys, with expert verification by Andrew Young. Due to taxonomic complexity, Melangyna species (subgenus Austrosyphus) were treated collectively as Melangyna indet. Only honey bees (Apis mellifera) and Melangyna indet. had sufficient interaction numbers for analysis. All specimens are housed at The University of Sydney. | en_AU |
| dc.relation.other | Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación – Colombia (COLCIENCIAS, 783-2017) | |
| usyd.faculty | SeS faculties schools::Faculty of Science::School of Life and Environmental Sciences | en_AU |
| workflow.metadata.only | No | en_AU |
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