Honey bee colony performance and health are intimately linked to the foraging environment.
Recent evidence suggests that the US Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has a positive …

In recent decades an increase in the use of pesticides to protect plants from pests, diseases
and weeds has been observed. There are many studies on the effects of various pesticides …

Floral traits are hypothesized to evolve primarily in response to selection by pollinators.
However, selection can also be mediated by other environmental factors. To understand the …

Mounting concern over the global decline of pollinators has fuelled calls for investigating
their role in maintaining plant diversity,. Theory predicts that competition for pollinators can …

Land use change, by disrupting the co-evolved interactions between plants and their
pollinators, could be causing plant reproduction to be limited by pollen supply. Using a …

The length of time a flower remains open and functional–floral longevity–governs important
reproductive processes influencing pollination and mating and varies considerably among …

Wild bees provide important pollination services, but they face numerous stressors that
threaten them and their ecosystem services. Wild bees can be exposed to heavy metal …

Understanding how floral traits affect reproduction is key for understanding genetic diversity,
speciation, and trait evolution in the face of global changes and pollinator decline. However …

Arthropods can strongly impact ecosystems through pollination, herbivory, predation, and
parasitism. As such, characterizing arthropod biodiversity is vital to understanding …

Pollinator declines have raised concerns about the persistence of plant species that depend
on insect pollination, in particular by bees, for their reproduction. The impact of pollinator …