author keywords: native bees; fire; diversity; Pinus palustris; sandhills

MeSH headings : Animals; Bees; Ecosystem; Fires; Grassland; Hymenoptera; North Carolina; Pinus

TL;DR: It is indicated that prescribed burning is a silvicultural practice consistent with pollinator conservation in longleaf pine ecosystems of the North Carolina sandhills, and bees nesting aboveground were unaffected by fire, contrary to the expectation that fire would destroy the wood and stems in which these species nest. (via Semantic Scholar)