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. 2018 Sep 17;8:13873. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31826-3

Table 1.

Direct effects of adjacent habitat (factor: crop or SNH), management (factor: organic or conventional), proportion of cropland in 1 km radius (% cropland, continuous), and insecticide intensity in the landscape (continuous) on visits of honey and bumble bees and direct and indirect effects of them on pollen delivery (hypothesised causal structure see Fig. 1).

Response Mediated by Predictor Estimate Std.Err z-value P R2
Honey bee visits ~ 0.33
Adjacent SNH 12.1 21.2 0.6 0.57
Organic −19.8 10.2 −1.9 0.053
% Cropland 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.76
Insecticide intensity −4.2 3.8 −1.1 0.26
Bumble bee visits ~ 0.61
Adjacent SNH 4.6 11.1 0.4 0.68
Organic 8.5 5.0 1.7 0.090
% Cropland −0.64 0.19 −3.5 0.001
Insecticide intensity 0.3 1.8 0.2 0.88
Pollen delivery ~ 0.67
Honey bee visits 22 25 0.9 0.38
Bumble bee visits 183 40 4.5 <0.001
Honey bee visits Adjacent SNH 260 571 0.4 0.65
Organic −425 523 −0.8 0.43
% Cropland 2 8 0.3 0.77
Insecticide intensity −91 118 −0.8 0.45
Bumble bee visits Adjacent SNH 829 2059 0.4 0.68
Organic 1566 973 1.6 0.11
% Cropland −118 39 −3.0 0.003
Insecticide intensity 52 339 0.2 0.88

Indirect effects on pollen delivery are split in effects mediated by bumble bee visits or by honey bee visits. Results from the structural equation model (number of observations = 18, minimum generalized least-squares chi-square statistic = 9.3, df = 11) are displayed. For all predictors estimates, standard errors, z-values and p-values are given. R2 is given per response.