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Plants, pollinators and their interactions under global ecological change: The role of pollen DNA metabarcoding

Posted on September 24, 2022October 24, 2022

Anthropogenic activities are triggering global changes in the environment, causing entire communities of plants, pollinators and their interactions to restructure, and ultimately leading to species declines. To understand the mechanisms…

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Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020

Posted on August 24, 2022October 24, 2022

During the main COVID-19 global pandemic lockdown period of 2020 an impromptu set of pollination ecologists came together via social media and personal contacts to carry out standardised surveys of…

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Bumble bee workers face decreased efficiency of pollen collection and reduction in size due to Sulfoxaflor exposure in late European summer

Posted on July 24, 2022October 24, 2022

Bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) are important pollinators of wild and crop plants. Despite their importance in the process of fruit and seed production on crop sites, their activity may be…

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Diets maintained in a changing world: Does land-use intensification alter wild bee communities by selecting for flexible generalists?

Posted on May 28, 2022June 28, 2022

Biodiversity loss, as often found in intensively managed agricultural landscapes, correlates with reduced ecosystem functioning, for example, pollination by insects, and with altered plant composition, diversity, and abundance. But how…

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Wild bee larval food composition in five European cities

Posted on April 28, 2022June 28, 2022

Urbanization poses threats and opportunities for the biodiversity of wild bees. At the same time, cities can harbor diverse wild bee assemblages, partly due to the unique plant assemblages that…

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Critical links between biodiversity and health in wild bee conservation

Posted on April 28, 2022June 28, 2022

Wild bee populations are declining due to human activities, such as land use change, which strongly affect the composition and diversity of available plants and food sources. The chemical composition of…

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Forest landscapes increase diversity of honeybee diets in the tropics

Posted on January 28, 2022June 28, 2022

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) depend entirely on floral resources (pollen and nectar) in their surrounding landscape to satisfy their dietary needs. Honeybee diets in temperate areas have been well studied, and there…

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Functional resin use in solitary bees

Posted on November 28, 2021June 28, 2022

Overall, more than 30% of bee species depend on non-floral resources, such as resin. However, the importance of resin in bee ecology, particularly for solitary bees, has received very little…

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How wild bees find a way in European cities: Pollen metabarcoding unravels multiple feeding strategies and their effects on distribution patterns in four wild bee species

Posted on October 28, 2021June 28, 2022

Urban ecosystems can sustain populations of wild bees, partly because of their rich native and exotic floral resources. A better understanding of the urban bee diet, particularly at the larval…

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Effects of three flower field types on bumblebees and their pollen diets

Posted on May 28, 2021June 28, 2022

Agri-environment schemes, like flower fields, have been implemented in the EU to counteract the dramatic decline of farmland biodiversity. Farmers in Lower Saxony, Germany, may receive payments for three flower…

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  • Plants, pollinators and their interactions under global ecological change: The role of pollen DNA metabarcoding
  • Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020
  • Bumble bee workers face decreased efficiency of pollen collection and reduction in size due to Sulfoxaflor exposure in late European summer
  • Phylogenetic relatedness of food plants reveals highest insect herbivore specialisation at intermediate temperatures along a broad climatic gradient
  • Diets maintained in a changing world: Does land-use intensification alter wild bee communities by selecting for flexible generalists?

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