As an important ecosystem service, pollination plays an important and key role in maintaining the cycles and thus the stability of ecosystems and their diversity. Honey bee breeding, in addition to honey production, can be a great help to produce more agricultural products. A large proportion of agricultural products is due to the role of honey bees in agriculture. this research that investigates the pollination and pollination potential of honey bees, it can be prioritized in studies related to agriculture. In this study, an attempt was made to investigate pollination-prone areas in Central Province by using species distribution models (SDMs) and beehive deployment points. Therefore, the primary and basic assumption of this study is based on the fact that the areas where the beehives are present have suitable conditions that have been placed by beekeepers in the region, and therefore identifying similar environmental conditions was prioritized in this research. Therefore, spatial samples were collected from the areas of beehives throughout the province special points are related to colonies of the species and subspecies of Apis mellifera carnica, Apis mellifera Caucasian, Apis mellifera meda and Apis cerana. Then, using variables that can be effective for pollination, distribution modeling was done with the help of machine learning and statistical methods. 7 individual models were used to eva‎luate pollination-prone areas and, at the end, all these individual models were combined with each other and the final model was obtained. The sensitivity of the effective factors for pollination was calculated using the random forest method. Pollination quality was compared between different cities of the province. It was investigated with the help of a land use/cover map, and on the other hand, the role of landforms as physical units was determined. The findings show that the height and wind speed have the greatest effect on the distribution of bee hives. Among the different land uses/covers in the province, agricultural lands overlap to a greater extent with the possibility of pollination, and in this category, there is rain agriculture. The diversity of landforms is high in areas with high habitat diversity. The similarity of habitat quality and distance from natural lands was calculated as 0.22, which shows that the distance from natural lands cannot be a determining factor in the change of pollination quality. The findings of this study can be effective in establishing new beehives as well as identifying suitable uses/covers for the productivity of beekeeping in Central Province.

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