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Protecting an Ecosystem Service: Approaches to Understanding and Mitigating Threats to Wild Insect Pollinators [PDF]

, 2016
Insect pollination constitutes an ecosystem service of global importance, providing significant economic and aesthetic benefits as well as cultural value to human society, alongside vital ecological processes in terrestrial ecosystems.
Arce, AN, Baldock, KCR, Boatman, ND, Brand-Hardy, R, Breeze, TD, Brown, MJF, Cresswell, JE, Dicks, LV, Fountain, MT, Garratt, MPD, Gill, RJ, Gough, LA, Green, M, Hartfield, CM, Heard, MS, Holland, JM, O'Connor, RS, Ollerton, J, Osborne, JL, Phillips, J, Potts, SG, Stone, GN, Sutton, PB, Tang, CQ, Vanbergen, AJ, Vogler, AP, Woodward, G   +26 more
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Bridging the implementation gap in MCABC inventory management: from a taxonomy to practical archetypes

International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite increasing demands for resilient and sustainable supply chains, inventory management often relies on outdated single‐criterion analyses. While multi‐criteria ABC (MCABC) analyses provide a theoretically mature assessment of resilience‐sustainability‐benefit trade‐offs in inventory, their adoption remains limited due to fragmented ...
Lukas Grützner, Michael H. Breitner
wiley   +1 more source

Bees, Birds, and Beyond: An Unexpected Journey on the Path to Conservation [PDF]

, 2018
UNH alum Molly Jacobson looks back on how her experiences as an undergraduate influenced her plans for the ...
Jacobson, Molly
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Associative learning of flowers by generalist bumble bees can be mediated by microbes on the petals

Behavioral Ecology, 2019
Communication is often vital to the maintenance of mutualisms. In plant-pollinator mutualisms, plants signal pollinators via floral displays, composed of olfactory, visual, and other plant-derived cues. While plants are understood to be associated with
A. Russell, T. Ashman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Do Laboratory‐Reared Flies Perform Differently as Pollinators? Morphology, Behaviour and Pollination Performance of Eristalis tenax (Syrphidae)

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flies (Diptera) are important pollinators in global agriculture, yet little is known about how intraspecific trait variation influences their pollination performance. We compared morphological traits, foraging behaviour and pollination‐related performance metrics between laboratory‐reared (hereafter lab‐reared) and wild populations of ...
Abby E. Davis, Lena Alice Schmidt, Karen C. B. S. Santos, Samantha Harrington, Raylea Rowbottom, Amy Lucas, Cameron Spurr, Blake M. Dawson, Romina Rader   +8 more
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No impact of cyantraniliprole on the hibernation success of bumble bees (Bombus terrestris audax) in a soil‐mediated laboratory exposure study

Ecology and Evolution
Increasing evidence shows that wild bees, including bumble bees, are in decline due to a range of stressors, including pesticides. Our knowledge of pesticide impacts has consequently grown to enable the design of increasingly realistic risk assessment ...
Alberto Linguadoca, Morgan A. Morrison, Luca Menaballi, Peter Šima, Mark J. F. Brown   +4 more
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Bumble Bee Watch community science program increases scientific understanding of an important pollinator group across Canada and the USA.

PLoS ONE
In a time of increasing threats to bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus), it is important to understand their ecology and distribution. As experts are limited in resources to conduct field surveys, there is potential for community scientists to help.
Victoria J MacPhail, Richard Hatfield, Sheila R Colla   +2 more
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Does the waggle dance help honey bees to forage at greater distances than expected for their body size? [PDF]

, 2015
A honey bee colony has been likened to an oil company. Some members of the company or colony prospect for valuable liquid resources. When these are discovered other group members can be recruited to exploit the resource. The recruitment of nestmates to a
Beekman, Beekman, Beekman, Beekman, Beutler, Biesmeijer, Biesmeijer, Couvillon, Couvillon, Couvillon, Czaczkes, Donaldson-Matasci, Dornhaus, Dornhaus, Dramstad, Dyer, Greenleaf, Grüter, Haskell, Heinrich, Heinrich, Janzen, Jarau, Kuhn-Neto, Lindauer, Lindauer, Maynard Smith, Maynard Smith, Nieh, Nieh, Nieh, Nieh, Nieh, Oldroyd, Osborne, Ratnieks, Ratnieks, Schneider, Schürch, Schürch, Seeley, Seeley, Seeley, Seeley, Sherman, van Nieuwstadt, Visscher, von Frisch, Wilson, Zurbuchen   +49 more
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Pollen grain morphology is not exclusively responsible for pollen collectability in bumble bees

Scientific Reports, 2019
Bee-pollinated plants face a dilemma in that bees both passively transport pollen grains among conspecific flowers and actively collect pollen to feed their larvae.
Sabine Konzmann, Sebastian Koethe, K. Lunau   +2 more
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The Effect of Urbanization on Bumble Bee Communities in Greater Philadelphia [PDF]

, 2010
Bumble bees (Bombus spp.) are among the most important wild pollinators in temperate ecosystems in North America and Europe, and are believed to be vital to the functioning of the pollination networks in which they occur.
Neal M. Williams, Rosemary L. Malfi
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