From:	Kleijn, David
Sent:	dinsdag 28 augustus 2012 19:41
To:	'Blande Viana'
Subject:	RE: Passion Fruit in Bahia, Brazil - Complete Data

Hi Blande,

Thanks for the clarifications. Good to know that only the Xylocopa species contribute to 
pollination.

I will be in touch again when I have some results.

Cheers,

David.

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Dr. D. Kleijn
Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University &
Alterra, Centre for Ecosystem studies
PO Box 47
6700 AA, Wageningen
The Netherlands
Tel. ++31 317 485807, Fax ++31 317 419000
Email. David.Kleijn@wur.nl
URL: http://www.alterra.wur.nl/UK/research/Specialisation+Ecosystem+Studies/Dr.Ir.+D.+(David)+Kleijn

From: Blande Viana [mailto:blande.viana@gmail.com]  
Sent: dinsdag 28 augustus 2012 17:46 
To: Kleijn, David 
Subject: Re: Passion Fruit in Bahia, Brazil - Complete Data

Hi David 
The geographic coordinate system is South America Datum - SAD 69. I think we can assume the 
less abundant Xylocopa species made up at least 5% of the total visits. I just would like to 
tell you that the Passion fruit pollinator are the big Xylocopa bees. T spinipes and A mellifera are 
considering a nectar robber. 
Cheers 
Blande
2012/8/26 Kleijn, David <David.Kleijn@wur.nl>
Hi Blande,
 
This is really excellent, thanks. I did a quick scan. Xylocopa spp. make up c. 47% of the 
total number of bees (including Apis; excluding Apis even more). Is it safe to assume that 
visits of the less abundant Xylocopa species made up at least 5% of the total visits? That 
way we can list both Xylocopa species and the Trigona species as dominant species in your 
dataset.
 
Could you also let me know what geographic coordinate system you used?
 
I will keep you informed about progress with the analysis/manuscript. I will probably work in 
force on this the last couple of months of the year (still busy collecting datasets).
 
All the best,
 
David.
 
 
 
 
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Dr. D. Kleijn
Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University &
Alterra, Centre for Ecosystem studies
PO Box 47
6700 AA, Wageningen
The Netherlands
Tel. ++31 317 485807, Fax ++31 317 419000
Email. David.Kleijn@wur.nl
URL: http://www.alterra.wur.nl/UK/research/Specialisation+Ecosystem+Studies/Dr.Ir.+D.+(David)+Kleijn
 
From: Blande Viana [mailto:blande.viana@gmail.com]  
Sent: vrijdag 24 augustus 2012 23:22 
To: Kleijn, David 
Subject: Passion Fruit in Bahia, Brazil - Complete Data
 
Hi David,
Sorry again for delay. I`really very busy lately. Im sending to you the complete Passion fruit 
data including 03 columns with total number of specimens per  50m transect (~90 flowers in a 
trasect of 50m).  All non Apis bees has more than 100 specimens.  
Xylocopa spp is two species: Xylocopa Megaxylocopa frontalis Olivier and Xylocopa 
Neoxylocopa grisescens Lepeletier, the last one was more abundant. But as they are very similar 
morphologically, separate one from the other visiting the flowers was hard, so we chose to 
consider only the taxonomic level of genus, to avoid mistakes. 
Cheers 
Blande
 
Profa. Dra. Blandina Felipe Viana 
Instituto de Biologia 
Universidade Federal da Bahia - Campus de Ondina 
Rua Baro de Geremoabo s/n 
40170-210 Salvador - BA 
Fone: 71 3283-6554 
Fax: 71 32836513 
www.labea.ufba.br 
blandefv@ufba.br
 
 
 
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Instituto de Biologia 
Universidade Federal da Bahia - Campus de Ondina 
Rua Baro de Geremoabo s/n 
40170-210 Salvador - BA 
Fone: 71 3283-6554 
Fax: 71 32836513 
www.labea.ufba.br 
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