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Bee community assembly is regulated by functional traits in pristine tropical forest environments

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Understanding the drivers of bee beta diversity across pristine environments in the Amazon is critical for ensuring biodiversity conservation, restoration, sustainable land use planning and economic development.
Rafael Cabral Borges, Erlane José Cunha, Ulysses Madureira Maia, Lourival Tyski, José Eustáquio dos Santos Júnior, Carlos Eduardo Pinto, Markus Gastauer, Tereza Cristina Giannini   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring integument transcriptomes, cuticle ultrastructure, and cuticular hydrocarbons profiles in eusocial and solitary bee species displaying heterochronic adult cuticle maturation.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Differences in the timing of exoskeleton melanization and sclerotization are evident when comparing eusocial and solitary bees. This cuticular maturation heterochrony may be associated with life style, considering that eusocial bees remain protected ...
Tiago Falcon, Daniel G Pinheiro, Maria Juliana Ferreira-Caliman, Izabel C C Turatti, Fabiano C Pinto de Abreu, Juliana S Galaschi-Teixeira, Juliana R Martins, Moysés Elias-Neto, Michelle P M Soares, Marcela B Laure, Vera L C Figueiredo, Norberto Peporine Lopes, Zilá L P Simões, Carlos A Garófalo, Márcia M G Bitondi   +14 more
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Solitary bee Epicharis albofasciata. [PDF]

, 2016
8 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.This paper describes the extensive nesting site and the nesting behavior of a large population of the solitary, ground-nesting bee Epicharis (Epicharoides) albofasciata Smith, found in Trinidad in association ...
Rozen, Jerome G., Jr. (Jerome George), 1928-
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Combined stress from parasites, pesticides and lack of flowers drives bee declines [PDF]

, 2015
Bees are subject to numerous pressures in the modern world. The abundance and diversity of flowers has declined, bees are chronically exposed to cocktails of agrochemicals, and they are simultaneously exposed to novel parasites accidentally spread by ...
Botias Talamantes, Cristina, Goulson, Dave, Nicholls, Beth, Rotheray, Ellen   +3 more
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Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of opportunity for social buffering

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study tests whether early‐life maternal association buffers offspring from the effects of prenatal stress in a facultatively social lizard. Despite clear effects of maternal glucocorticoids on growth and social behaviour, social associations did not mitigate these effects, revealing limits to social buffering in this species.
Kirsty J. MacLeod, Alix Bouffet‐Halle, Erik Wapstra, Tobias Uller, Geoffrey M. While   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exosymbiotic microbes within fermented pollen provisions are as important for the development of solitary bees as the pollen itself

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Developing bees derive significant benefits from the microbes present within their guts and fermenting pollen provisions. External microbial symbionts (exosymbionts) associated with larval diets may be particularly important for solitary bees that suffer
Prarthana S. Dharampal, Bryan N. Danforth, Shawn A. Steffan   +2 more
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Management and drivers of change of pollinating insects and pollination services. National Pollinator Strategy: for bees and other pollinators in England, Evidence statements and Summary of Evidence [PDF]

, 2019
These Evidence Statements provide up-to-date information on what is known (and not known) about the status, values, drivers of change, and responses to management of UK insect pollinators (as was September 2018). This document has been produced to inform
Baldock, Katherine, Breeze, T.D., Brown, M.J.F., Carvell, C., Dicks, L.V., Garratt, M.P., Norman, H., Potts, S.G., Senapathi, D., Steele, D. J., Vanbergen, A.J.   +10 more
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Differential effects of jasmonic acid treatment of Brassica nigra on the attraction of pollinators, parasitoids, and butterflies [PDF]

, 2008
Herbivore-induced plant defences influence the behaviour of herbivores as well as that of their natural enemies. Jasmonic acid is one of the key hormones involved in both these direct and indirect induced defences.
Bruinsma, M., Dicke, M., IJdema, H., Loon, J.J.A., van   +3 more
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Digging into dirt: Rewilding with threatened mammals shapes soil‐emerging insect assemblages

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
By comparing insect communities across treatments at two time points, we show that reintroduced digging mammals shape soil‐emerging insect assemblages. This provides empirical evidence that restoring ecosystem engineers may drive broader community‐level change in semi‐arid ecosystems. Abstract Digging mammals function as ecosystem engineers by altering
Lucy G. Johanson, Peter Contos, Romina Rader, Heloise Gibb   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two Novel Geminiviruses Identified in Bees (Apis mellifera and Nomia sp.)

Viruses
Members of the Geminviridae family are circular single-stranded DNA plant-infecting viruses, some of which impact global food production. Geminiviruses are vectored by sap-feeding insects such as leafhoppers, treehoppers, aphids, and whiteflies ...
Rohan Antonio Bandoo, Simona Kraberger, Arvind Varsani   +2 more
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