Data supporting ‘Examining honeybee (Apis mellifera) dominance patterns within urban bee communities worldwide’

The following repository contains the data and code to reproduce the figures analyses of the paper "Examining honeybee (Apis mellifera) dominance patterns within urban bee communities worldwide". It contains three datasets and one .R file


The data results from a literature review on abundance distribution of urban bee communities worldwide, aiming at obtaining studies reporting total abundances of honeybees and wildbees in a given city, and species abundances of wildbees and honeybees in a given city.


  1. Data:
  2. 20240308_cities_coords.csv: the data contains the latitude and longitude of the included cities in the study. It is used for making the world map with the cities.
  3. 20241201_proportion_HB_WB.csv: the data contains the total wild bee and honeybee abundances per city/urban aggregation, and the proportions.
  4. 20241201_rad_bees.csv: the data contains the species abundances per city/urban aggregation

  5. Script:

  6. HoneybeeDominance_Analyses_Figures.R: the script to run the analyses and make the plots. Analyses were done in R version 4.2.1, using the packages ggplot2, glmmTMB, multcomp, wesanderson, terra.

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Identifier 683ed266-c67f-40db-84cd-e8599f075126@envidat
Title for URL of the dataset data-supporting-examining-honeybee-apis-mellifera-dominance-patterns-within-urban-bee-communiti
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Issued date May 14, 2025
Modification date August 4, 2025
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