In this study, we decoded and analyzed honey bee waggle dances before (2018-19, n = 382) and after (2022, n = 502) land development took place within the hives' foraging range. While the total area of construction totaled just 1% of the honey bee maximum foraging range, this nearly doubled the average forager flight distance (from 0.69 kilometers to 1.28 kilometers) and energy expenditure per foraging flight (from 7 to 13 Joules). We also find that bees increase (from 2.4% to 8.4%) their use of undisturbed microhabitat within the development.
Publisher
University Libraries, Virginia TechLocation
BlacksburgCorresponding Author Name
Roger SchürchFiles/Folders in Dataset and Description
## Ostrom2025_OpenBiol_Data.zip
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├── 04_data ## main data folder
│ ├── calibration_data ## bee dance calibration data folder
│ │ └── distance_calib_obj_Universal1000.RData ## with data from Schürch et al. (2019)
│ ├── dance_data ## dance data folder
│ │ └── dance_data.csv ## with anonymized bee dance data
│ ├── gis_proj ## GIS objects
│ │ ├── construction_map.qgz
│ │ ├── disolved_main_construction.cpg
│ │ ├── disolved_main_construction.dbf
│ │ ├── disolved_main_construction.prj
│ │ ├── disolved_main_construction.shp
│ │ ├── disolved_main_construction.shx
│ │ ├── distance_buffer_1000m.cpg
│ │ ├── distance_buffer_1000m.dbf
│ │ ├── distance_buffer_1000m.prj
│ │ ├── distance_buffer_1000m.shp
│ │ ├── distance_buffer_1000m.shx
│ │ ├── distance_buffer_500m.cpg
│ │ ├── distance_buffer_500m.dbf
│ │ ├── distance_buffer_500m.prj
│ │ ├── distance_buffer_500m.shp
│ │ └── distance_buffer_500m.shx
│ ├── shapes ## shapes of construction and untouched habitat
│ │ ├── ConstructionWithin3km.kml
│ │ └── UntouchedPolygons.kml
│ ├── dance_data_agg.csv ## aggregated dance data
│ ├── data_preps.RData ## R object: spatial data and predict dances
│ ├── my_sim_dances.Rdata ## simulated (predicted) dances R object
│ └── results.RData ## calcualted results to be used in article
└── 05_code ## code for reproducing analyses
├── 000_main.R ## main file to rule all other files
├── 001_data_prep.R ## prepare data and save in R objects
├── 003_analysis.R ## main analysis file
├── 003_graphs.R ## file for rendering figures
├── 003_suppl_graphs.R ## render some supplemental figures
└── README.md ## readme file with licenses, folder tree and links to data repo
## waggleR.zip
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├── data
│ └── universal_calibration.rda ## calibration data from Schürch et al. (2019)
├── DESCRIPTION ## R package description file
├── LICENSE ## R package license file
├── LICENSE.md ## software license in human readable form
├── man ## manuals for specific functions
│ ├── calculate_coordinates.Rd
│ ├── calculate_heading.Rd
│ ├── calculate_probability_raster.Rd
│ ├── predict_dance.Rd
│ └── universal_calibration.Rd
├── NAMESPACE ## roxygen2 generate namespace file
├── R ## R code folder with all functions
│ ├── calculate_heading.R
│ ├── predict_dance.R
│ ├── rasterize_dances.R
│ ├── sandbox_model.R
│ └── universal_calibration.R
├── readme.md ## instructions exported from Rmd to md (see below)
├── readme.Rmd ## installation and basic usage instructions
└── tests ## tests for the package, for dev use
├── testthat
│ └── test-predict_dance.R
└── testthat.R
