Ecological niche modeling studies in bees: Bibliometric Analysis

This article investigates the profile of scientific production related niche modeling of bees through a bibliometric study using the Scopus database. VOSviewer software was utilized to identify the most interconnected terms, analyzing the countries and authors with the highest publication rates, the most cited authors, and the frequency of these publications. The results revealed a notable increase in scientific output from 1977 to 2023, with peak production in 2020 and 2023, totaling 233 articles with an average of 5.18 published annually. These works were published in various countries, with Brazil occupying the leading position, having 217 connections and 118 journals publishing literature on the topic, ten of which published more than four studies. We selected 25 articles that explored different models for data integration, with most studies employing the species distribution modeling method, which accounted for 72% of the analyzed studies. Additionally, 67% of the data utilized environmental variables from WorldClim. The most studied bees, belonging to the genus Bombus Latreille, 1802 and the tribe Euglossini, have solitary habits and play crucial roles in the biological reproduction of numerous native and agricultural plant species.