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Different handling times, shared diel rhythms: spatial variation in flower-visitor behavior in apple orchards Rodrigo Barahona (6711734) Vanessa Durán-Sanzana (14171244) Maureen Murúa (12868271) Elias Encina Alfaro (14592345) Joaquín Sepúlveda-Astudillo (23467185) Cecilia Smith-Ramírez (9412419) Behavioural ecology Behavioral functional trait distance to forest edge-orchard gradient flower handling time model-derived complementarity <p dir="ltr">Dataset associated with the study “Different handling times, shared diel rhythms: spatial variation in flower-visitor behavior in apple orchards”.</p><p dir="ltr">This dataset contains flower-handling-time observations collected from flower visitors in nine apple orchards in the Maule Region of central Chile over two sampling years. Researchers observed flower visitors directly on apple blossoms between 09:00 and 17:00 along standardized within-orchard transects with seven sampling stations at 0, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160, and 320 m from the orchard edge.</p><p dir="ltr">Flower handling time was defined as the time, in seconds, that a visitor spent handling or foraging on a flower, measured from initial physical contact with the flower until departure. The dataset includes taxonomic information on flower visitors together with temporal, spatial, environmental, observer, orchard, and sampling-year information. We reconstructed sampling-bout identity from the original field-record sequence using year, orchard, observer, station, and the exact recorded bout start time, allowing us to identify repeated observations under the same immediate sampling conditions.</p><p dir="ltr">The dataset was used to examine (i) differences among flower-visitor groups in the magnitude and diel organization of flower-handling behavior, (ii) temporal behavioral overlap and differentiation among visitor groups based on normalized model-predicted diel trajectories, and (iii) spatial variation in diel behavioral organization along within-orchard edge-to-interior and native-forest-distance gradients.</p><p dir="ltr">The complete dataset contains 2,237 flower-handling observations representing 76 flower-visitor species. After exclusion of infrequent visitor categories and one observation for which sampling-bout membership could not be unambiguously reconstructed, the principal analytical dataset comprised 2,220 observations from 10 flower-visitor groups and 641 sampling bouts. We retained eight focal visitor groups with sufficient temporal and spatial coverage for standardized temporal-overlap and spatial analyses.</p><p dir="ltr">These data accompany the manuscript by Barahona-Segovia et al. and are provided to facilitate reproducibility and further research on flower-visitor behavior, temporal ecology, functional diversity, and pollinator ecology in agricultural landscapes</p> 2025-01-27T00:25:18Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.28283042.v2 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Flower_handling_time_of_neglected_and_commercial_pollinators_as_a_behavioral_functional_trait_to_evaluate_potential_pollination_success_in_apple_orchards/28283042 CC BY 4.0