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Harnessing community science to conserve and study ground-nesting bee aggregations
Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionProtecting diverse solitary ground-nesting bees remains a pivotal conservation concern. Ground-nesting bees are negatively impacted by anthropogenic land use change that often removes suitable nesting habitat from the landscape.
Jordan G. Kueneman +2 more
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher +1 more
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Laboratory acute contact toxicity test with the leafcutter bee Megachile rotundata
Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 2020 So far little is known about the toxicity of Plant Protection Products (PPPs) to solitary bees other than Osmia spp. as well as the inter- and intra-species sensitivity differences of honey bees and solitary bees.
Kling, Annette +2 more
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Geoderma, 2023 Most research on wild bees has focused on their role as pollinators, while their importance as soil ecosystem engineers has been largely overlooked, despite the fact that most species nest in the soil.
Philippe Tschanz +4 more
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Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Carrion is a ubiquitous resource in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet it has long been overlooked in ecological research. Over the past two decades, studies on carrion and the many organisms that exploit it have flourished, revealing not only wide‐ranging ecological functions but also significance far beyond ecology.
Marcos Moleón +38 more
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Cosmos sulphureus: environmental bioindicator of diversity of bees
Acta Scientiarum: Animal SciencesAmong the flowers most visited by bees in Brazil, those belonging to the Asteraceae family stand out, and one of them is the cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus).
Darclet Teresinha Malerbo-Souza +6 more
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Linking pollen foraging of megachilid bees to their nest bacterial microbiota
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Solitary bees build their nests by modifying the interior of natural cavities, and they provision them with food by importing collected pollen. As a result, the microbiota of the solitary bee nests may be highly dependent on introduced materials.
Anna Voulgari‐Kokota +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel +6 more
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Solitary Bees Facing Climate Change
SociobiologySolitary bees comprise over 15,000 species. They represent the vast majority of bees on earth (>77%), but they are less studied than the social species.
Isabel Alves-dos-Santos +2 more
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Succession influences wild bees in a temperate forest landscape: the value of early successional stages in naturally regenerated and planted forests. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 In many temperate terrestrial forest ecosystems, both natural human disturbances drive the reestablishment of forests. Succession in plant communities, in addition to reforestation following the creation of open sites through harvesting or natural ...
Hisatomo Taki +6 more
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