The effects of urbanisation on pollinators and pollination: A meta-analysis
Ecology Letters, 2022 Urbanisation is increasing worldwide, with major impacts on biodiversity, species interactions and ecosystem functioning. Pollination is an ecosystem function vital for terrestrial ecosystems and food security, however, the processes underlying the patterns of pollinator diversity and the ecosystem services they provide in cities have seldom been ...
Huan Liang +3 more
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Optimizing Laboratory Rearing of a Key Pollinator, Bombus impatiens
Insects, 2021 Bumble bees are key pollinators for wild and managed plants and serve as a model system in various research fields, largely due to their commercial availability.
Erin Treanore +7 more
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The effect of the brood and the queen on early gene expression in bumble bee workers' brains
Scientific Reports, 2022 Worker reproduction in social insects is often regulated by the queen, but can be regulated by the brood and nestmates, who may use different mechanisms to induce the same outcomes in subordinates. Analysis of brain gene expression patterns in bumble bee
Priscila K. F. Santos +3 more
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Factors Influencing the Reproductive Ability of Male Bees: Current Knowledge and Further Directions
Insects, 2021 Bumblebees and honeybees are very important pollinators and play a vital role in agricultural and natural ecosystems. The quality of their colonies is determined by the queens and the reproductive drones of mother colonies, and mated drones transmit ...
Huiyue Zhao +3 more
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Pollination Services of Mango Flower Pollinators [PDF]
Journal of Insect Science, 2015 Measuring wild pollinator services in agricultural production is very important in the context of sustainable management. In this study, we estimated the contribution of native pollinators to mango fruit set production of two mango cultivars Mangifera indica (L). cv. 'Sala' and 'Chok Anan'. Visitation rates of pollinators on mango flowers and number of
Huda, A. Nurul +4 more
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A review of pollinator conservation and management on infrastructure supporting rights-of-way
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2012 Early successional landscapes along or adjacent to infrastructure installations have been highlighted as potential pollinator conservation zones that provide environmental benefits and ameliorate some of the negative impacts of wildland conversion ...
Victoria Agatha Wojcik, Stephen Buchmann
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Experimental evidence that wildflower strips increase pollinator visits to crops [PDF]
, 2015 This study was financially supported by the Natural Environment Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council. Date of Acceptance: 06/01/2015Wild bees provide a free and potentially diverse ecosystem service to farmers growing pollination-
Dave Goulson +15 more
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Stem-nesting Hymenoptera in Irish farmland: empirical evaluation of artificial trap nests as tools for fundamental research and pollinator conservation [PDF]
, 2022 peer-reviewedInsect pollinators are suffering global declines, necessitating the evaluation and development of methods for long-term monitoring and applied field research.
Bottero, Irene +9 more
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Current Biology, 2020 Pritchard and Vallejo-Marín introduce the process and evolution of buzz pollination.
Pritchard, David J +1 more
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Constructing more informative plant-pollinator networks : visitation and pollen deposition networks in a heathland plant community [PDF]
, 2015 Interaction networks are widely used as tools to understand plant–pollinator communities, and to examine potential threats to plant diversity and food security if the ecosystem service provided by pollinating animals declines.
Baldock, Katherine C. R. +11 more
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