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Contemporary Problems of Ecology

2002 year, number 4

Influence of Urban Factors on the Bumble-Bee Population Structure

N. I. EREMEEVA

Abstract

Some parameters of bumble-bee population in urbanized cenoses of the city of Kemerovo and its outskirts were studied.  A dependence of the number of bumble-bee species and their relative abundance on the degree of anthropogenic loading has been found.  It is established that for the puropse of ecological monitoring in urbanized landscapes one should not take into account the species composition of mass bumble-bee species, because in various cities, even within one climatic zone, it may be different.  More promising appears the study of the change of the total number of species, contribution of mass and usual species, presence and numbers of rare species, and the degree of monodominance of bumble-bee communities depending on the anthropogenous loading.