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DOI	10.2317/0022-8567-92.2.468
	Land Conversion for Solar Facilities and Urban Sprawl in Southwest Deserts Causes Different Amounts of Habitat Loss for Ashmeadiella Bees
	Mccoshum, Shaun; Geber, Monica A.
通讯作者	Mccoshum, Shaun
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY
ISSN	0022-8567
EISSN	1937-2353
出版年	2019
卷号	92 期号:2 页码:468-478
英文摘要	Land conversion for human use poses one of the greatest threats to terrestrial ecosystems and causes habitat loss for a myriad of species. The development of large solar energy facilities and urban sprawl are converting wild lands in the Southwest deserts of the USA for human use and resulting in habitat loss for desert species. This is in part due to the Southwest deserts being identified as having high renewable energy potential while urban areas expand into areas supporting high biodiversity. Previous studies have quantified development within some of these biodiversity hotspots, but none have investigated direct species-specific habitat loss for different species of pollinators. Native bees are poorly studied, and therefore it is difficult to know how much habitat has been lost. We quantified the amount of land conversion occurring between 2010 and 2015 in Clark County, NV, Mojave County, AZ, and San Bernardino County, CA to assess direct loss of potential-habitat for species in the Southwest deserts. Using Satellite images, we quantified the direct habitat loss to solar facilities and estimated other land conversion due to urban sprawl using USDA land cover data. We created eco-niche models in MaxENT for ten Ashmeadiella bees, to estimate the amount of direct, potential-habitat loss caused by solar development and urban expansion. Our data suggest species are not equally affected by land conversion in the Southwest deserts and direct, potential-habitat loss to urban sprawl is much greater than the loss due to solar facilities. Furthermore, our data show each species incurs different amounts of habitat loss to both solar development and urban expansion as well as between counties. These results should assist in pollinator conservation program development by illustrating land conversion can vary between local governments and pollinator species.
英文关键词	Sustainable energy pollinators pollinator conservation land use ecology land conversion
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	USA
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000506832400004
WOS关键词	ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ; ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ; WIND ENERGY ; HYMENOPTERA ; PATTERNS ; APOIDEA ; MOJAVE ; GREEN ; SUSTAINABILITY
WOS类目	Entomology
WOS研究方向	Entomology
EI主题词	2020-01-01
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/312138
作者单位	Cornell Univ, E145 Corson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mccoshum, Shaun,Geber, Monica A.. Land Conversion for Solar Facilities and Urban Sprawl in Southwest Deserts Causes Different Amounts of Habitat Loss for Ashmeadiella Bees[J],2019,92(2):468-478.
APA	Mccoshum, Shaun,&Geber, Monica A..(2019).Land Conversion for Solar Facilities and Urban Sprawl in Southwest Deserts Causes Different Amounts of Habitat Loss for Ashmeadiella Bees.JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY,92(2),468-478.
MLA	Mccoshum, Shaun,et al."Land Conversion for Solar Facilities and Urban Sprawl in Southwest Deserts Causes Different Amounts of Habitat Loss for Ashmeadiella Bees".JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 92.2(2019):468-478.