Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

SG Potts, V Imperatriz-Fonseca, HT Ngo, MA Aizen… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Wild and managed pollinators provide a wide range of benefits to society in terms of
contributions to food security, farmer and beekeeper livelihoods, social and cultural values …

Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination

A Kovács‐Hostyánszki, A Espíndola… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide, human appropriation of ecosystems is disrupting plant–pollinator communities
and pollination function through habitat conversion and landscape homogenisation …

A historical review of managed honey bee populations in Europe and the United States and the factors that may affect them

MD Meixner - Journal of invertebrate pathology, 2010 - Elsevier
Honey bees are a highly valued resource around the world. They are prized for their honey
and wax production and depended upon for pollination of many important crops. While …

Effects of sublethal doses of glyphosate on honeybee navigation

MS Balbuena, L Tison, ML Hahn… - The Journal of …, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
Glyphosate (GLY) is a herbicide that is widely used in agriculture for weed control. Although
reports about the impact of GLY in snails, crustaceans and amphibians exist, few studies …

Herbicide resistance and biodiversity: agronomic and environmental aspects of genetically modified herbicide-resistant plants

G Schütte, M Eckerstorfer, V Rastelli… - Environmental Sciences …, 2017 - Springer
Farmland biodiversity is an important characteristic when assessing sustainability of
agricultural practices and is of major international concern. Scientific data indicate that …

The herbicide glyphosate negatively affects midgut bacterial communities and survival of honey bee during larvae reared in vitro

P Dai, Z Yan, S Ma, Y Yang, Q Wang… - Journal of agricultural …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Effects of glyphosate on survival, developmental rate, larval weight, and midgut bacterial
diversity of Apis mellifera were tested in the laboratory. Larvae were reared in vitro and fed …

[HTML][HTML] Next-generation global biomonitoring: large-scale, automated reconstruction of ecological networks

DA Bohan, C Vacher, A Tamaddoni-Nezhad… - Trends in ecology & …, 2017 - cell.com
We foresee a new global-scale, ecological approach to biomonitoring emerging within the
next decade that can detect ecosystem change accurately, cheaply, and generically. Next …

Effects of field-realistic doses of glyphosate on honeybee appetitive behaviour

LT Herbert, DE Vázquez, A Arenas… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
Glyphosate (GLY) is a broad-spectrum herbicide used for weed control. The sub-lethal
impact of GLY on non-target organisms such as insect pollinators has not yet been …

Environmental impacts of genetically modified plants: a review

AM Tsatsakis, MA Nawaz, D Kouretas, G Balias… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Powerful scientific techniques have caused dramatic expansion of genetically modified
crops leading to altered agricultural practices posing direct and indirect environmental …

Effects of the herbicide glyphosate on honey bee sensory and cognitive abilities: Individual impairments with implications for the hive

WM Farina, MS Balbuena, LT Herbert… - Insects, 2019 - mdpi.com
The honeybee Apis mellifera is an important pollinator in both undisturbed and agricultural
ecosystems. Its great versatility as an experimental model makes it an excellent proxy to …