Land conversion and pesticide use degrade forage areas for honey bees in America’s beekeeping epicenter

• Dan J. Dixon ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 1dandixon@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Earth System Science and Policy, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8172-4531

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• Haochi Zheng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth System Science and Policy, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States of America

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• Clint R. V. Otto

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Jamestown, ND, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7582-3525

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