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Pollination by hoverflies in the Anthropocene [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020 Pollinator declines, changes in land use and climate-induced shifts in phenology have the potential to seriously affect ecosystem function and food security by disrupting pollination services provided by insects. Much of the current research focuses on bees, or groups other insects together as ‘non-bee pollinators’, obscuring the relative contribution ...
Toby Doyle +5 more
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Protected areas and prime hoverfly areas: Safe haven for hoverflies or not?
Entomological Science, 2020 AbstractThe efficiency of protected areas (PAs) has often been questioned due to global decline of biodiversity. Invertebrates, especially insects, have been historically underrepresented in conservation studies. Our study focuses on hoverflies, an important group of insect pollinators and proven to be good bioindicators. Research was focused in Serbia,
Janković Marina +3 more
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Contrasting effects of altitude on species groups with different traits in a non-fragmented montane temperate forest [PDF]
Nature Conservation, 2019 Temperature has strong effects on species composition and traits. These effects can differ within and between species groups. Thermoregulation and mobility are traits which can be strongly affected by altitudinal distribution.
Maarten de Groot, Al Vrezec
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The FloRes Database: A floral resources trait database for pollinator habitat-assessment generated by a multistep workflow [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The decline of pollinating insects in agricultural landscapes proceeds due to intensive land use and the associated loss of habitat and food sources. The feeding of those insects depends on the spatial and temporal distribution of nectar and pollen as ...
Franziska Baden-Böhm +2 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 In order to synthesize changes in pollinating insect communities across space and time, it is necessary to understand whether, and how, sampling methods influence assessments of community patterns.
Amibeth Thompson +7 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) are cosmopolitan, generalist flower visitors and among the most important pollinators after bees and bumblebees. The dronefly Eristalis tenax can be found in temperate and continental climates across the globe, often ...
Klára Daňková +2 more
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Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 2021 The survey has been realized in the lowland relict forest Bosco delle Sorti della Partecipanza, a site situated in Trino (Piedmont, North-Western Italy), to assess the ecological conservation level of forest habitats using the Syrph the Net methodology ...
U. Maritano
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Quantification of migrant hoverfly movements (Diptera: Syrphidae) on the West Coast of North America [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 The seasonal migration of huge numbers of hoverflies is frequently reported in Europe from mountain passes or spurs of land. The movement of such large numbers of beneficial insects is thought to provide significant ecosystem services in terms of ...
Myles H. M. Menz +2 more
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Hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) in a rural garden and their potential for citizen science [PDF]
Contributions to EntomologyIn a rural garden in the southwest of the Netherlands, 48 species of hoverfly were observed, belonging to 28 genera. All but one species are common in the Netherlands. Gardens are a natural habitat for many hoverflies.
Joan A. van der Velden
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Syrphine hoverflies are effective pollinators of commercial strawberry
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2018 Recent declines in wild pollinators represent a significant threat to the sustained provision of pollination services. Insect pollinators are responsible for an estimated 45% of strawberry crop yields, which equates to a market value of approximately £99
Dylan Hodgkiss +2 more
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