@conference {17408,
	title = {The bees of the Aegean: diversity, faunistics, biogeography},
	booktitle = {7ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Οικολογίας {\guillemotleft}Οικολογία: συνδέοντας συστήματα, κλίμακες και ερευνητικά πεδία{\guillemotright}},
	year = {2014},
	month = {9-14 October 201},
	publisher = {Hellenic Ecological Society},
	organization = {Hellenic Ecological Society},
	address = {Mytilini, Greece},
	abstract = {<p>The Aegean Islands are of particular biogeographic interest due to their location between\&nbsp;the Anatolian and Balkan Peninsula in the East Mediterranean. Among others, these islands\&nbsp;constitute a hotspot for bee diversity for which no systematic study has ever been accomplished. Here, we present the results of the first study on bee diversity carried out on 8 islands located on a north-south climatic gradient. Bee sampling was carried out three times during the main flowering period in 2012 using pan-traps and hand-netting as collecting methods. Only Mediterranean open communities, mainly phrygana, were\&nbsp;surveyed which were selected at a density proportional to the size of each island. The total number of the communities surveyed amounted to 66. Overal 429 bee species were identified on the islands (Thasos (160), Samothrace (123), Limnos (191), Chios (197), Kos\&nbsp;(136), Naxos (126), lkaria (87), Karpathos (104)], belonging to 6 families [Colletidae (28),\&nbsp;Andrenidae (79), Halictidae (88), Melittidae (4), Megachilidae (99), Apidae (131)). The\&nbsp;species composition appears to change along a north-south gradient, with Colletidae - Halictidae prevailing in the northern islands (Thasos, Samothrace) and Apidae prevailing in\&nbsp;the remaining 6 islands.</p>
},
	author = {Jelle Devalez and Thomas Tscheulin and Holger Dathe and Sam Droege and Andreas Ebmer and Michael Kuhlmann and Denis Michez and Andreas Muller and Sebastien Patiny and Alain Pauly and John Pickering and Christophe Praz and Marino Quaranta and Stephan Risch and Erwin Scheuchl and Maximilian Schwarz and Michael Terzo and Theodora Petanidou}
}
