The pervasiveness of human imprint on Earth is alarming and most animal species,
including bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), must cope with several stressors …

Bees and flowering plants have a long-standing and remarkable co-evolutionary history.
Flowers and bees evolved traits that enable pollination, a process that is as important to …

The least understood aspects of the nutritional needs of bees are the elemental composition
of pollen and the bees' need for a stoichiometrically balanced diet containing the required …

Sufficiently diverse and abundant resources are essential for generalist consumers, and
form an important part of a suite of conservation strategies for pollinators. Honey bees are …

Limited resources and land-use pressures require more efficient conservation strategies,
from increasingly limited input. Pollinator declines are threatening food security and natural …

Effective insect pollination requires appropriate responses to internal and external
environmental cues in both the plant and the pollinator. Helianthus annuus, a highly …

The high variability observed in floral traits has been interpreted as resulting from the
adaptation of plants to pollinators, as the latter present innate preferences for specific floral …

A striking feature of the angiosperms that use animals as pollen carriers to sexually
reproduce is the great diversity of their flowers with regard to morphology and traits such as …

Bees provide important ecological services, and many species are threatened globally, yet
our knowledge of wild bee ecology and evolution is limited. While evolving from carnivorous …

A prime example of plant–animal interactions is the interaction between plants and
pollinators, which typically receive nectar and/or pollen as reward for their pollination …