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Bee species diversity enhances productivity and stability in a perennial crop.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Wild bees provide important pollination services to agroecoystems, but the mechanisms which underlie their contribution to ecosystem functioning--and, therefore, their importance in maintaining and enhancing these services-remain unclear.
Shelley R Rogers, David R Tarpy, Hannah J Burrack   +2 more
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Field-level characteristics influence wild bee functional guilds on public lands managed for conservation

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019
Throughout the Midwestern US, many public lands set aside for conservation engage in management activities (e.g., agriculture) that may act as stressors on wild bee populations.
Anson R. Main, Elisabeth B. Webb, Keith W. Goyne, Doreen Mengel   +3 more
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The wild bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) of the island of Cyprus [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2020
Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean, constitutes a biodiversity hotspot with high rates of plant endemism. The wild bees of the island were studied extensively by the native George Mavromoustakis, a world-renowned bee taxonomist, who ...
Androulla I. Varnava, Stuart P. M. Roberts, Denis Michez, John S. Ascher, Theodora Petanidou, Stavroula Dimitriou, Jelle Devalez, Marilena Pittara, Menelaos C. Stavrinides   +8 more
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Honey Bee Viruses in Wild Bees: Viral Prevalence, Loads, and Experimental Inoculation.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Evidence of inter-species pathogen transmission from managed to wild bees has sparked concern that emerging diseases could be causing or exacerbating wild bee declines.
Adam G Dolezal, Stephen D Hendrix, Nicole A Scavo, Jimena Carrillo-Tripp, Mary A Harris, M Joseph Wheelock, Matthew E O'Neal, Amy L Toth   +7 more
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Bee-diverse habitats positively affect seed set in wild plant species

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
IntroductionInteractions between flowering plants and visiting wild bees are crucial for ensuring pollination and subsequent plant reproductive success.
Kim C. Heuel, Manfred Ayasse, Hannah Burger   +2 more
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Wild Bee Nutritional Ecology: Integrative Strategies to Assess Foraging Preferences and Nutritional Requirements

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Bees depend on flowering plants for their nutrition, and reduced availability of floral resources is a major driver of declines in both managed and wild bee populations.
Makaylee K. Crone, Makaylee K. Crone, David J. Biddinger, David J. Biddinger, Christina M. Grozinger   +4 more
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Larger cities host richer bee faunas, but are no refuge for species with concerning conservation status: Empirical evidence from Western Europe

Basic and Applied Ecology
In the context of worldwide biodiversity and wild bee decline, it is increasingly important to better understand the effect of land-use changes on wild bee communities at a global scale. To do so, we studied the effect of city area and urban green spaces
Arthur Fauviau, William Fiordaliso, Alessandro Fisogni, Laura Fortel, Frédéric Francis, Benoît Geslin, Nina Hautekèete, Charlène Heiniger, Olivier Lambert, Violette Le Feon, François Massol, Alice Michelot-Antalik, Denis Michez, Hugues Mouret, Grégoire Noël, Yves Piquot, Lise Ropars, Lucie Schurr, Colin Van Reeth, Vincent Zaninotto, Isabelle Dajoz, Mickaël Henry   +21 more
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Safeguarding pollinators requires specific habitat prescriptions and substantially more land area than suggested by current policy

Scientific Reports, 2023
Habitat loss and fragmentation are major drivers of global pollinator declines, yet even after recent unprecedented periods of anthropogenic land-use intensification the amount of habitat needed to support insect pollinators remains unknown.
Alana Pindar, Nigel E. Raine
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Impact of Distance from the Forest Edge on The Wild Bee Diversity on the Northern Slope of Mount Slamet

Biosaintifika: Journal of Biology & Biology Education, 2016
In agricultural landscape in northern slope of Mount Slamet, diversity of wild bee species as pollinator depend on forested habitats. This study aimed to assess the effects of distance from the forest edge on the diversity of wild bees on strawberry and ...
Imam Widhiono, Eming Sudiana
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Experimental infection of bumblebees with honeybee-associated viruses: no direct fitness costs but potential future threats to novel wild bee hosts [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2020
Pathogen spillover represents an important cause of biodiversity decline. For wild bee species such as bumblebees, many of which are in decline, correlational data point towards viral spillover from managed honeybees as a potential cause. Yet, impacts of
Anja Tehel, Tabea Streicher, Simon Tragust, Robert J. Paxton   +3 more
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