[HTML][HTML] Critical links between biodiversity and health in wild bee conservation

MA Parreño, C Alaux, JL Brunet, L Buydens… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Wild bee populations are declining due to human activities, such as land use change, which
strongly affect the composition and diversity of available plants and food sources. The …

[HTML][HTML] Pesticides and pollinators: A socioecological synthesis

DB Sponsler, CM Grozinger, C Hitaj, M Rundlöf… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The relationship between pesticides and pollinators, while attracting no shortage of attention
from scientists, regulators, and the public, has proven resistant to scientific synthesis and …

Recent and future declines of a historically widespread pollinator linked to climate, land cover, and pesticides

WM Janousek, MR Douglas… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The acute decline in global biodiversity includes not only the loss of rare species, but also
the rapid collapse of common species across many different taxa. The loss of pollinating …

Glyphosate impairs collective thermoregulation in bumblebees

A Weidenmüller, A Meltzer, S Neupert, A Schwarz… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Insects are facing a multitude of anthropogenic stressors, and the recent decline in their
biodiversity is threatening ecosystems and economies across the globe. We investigated the …

Phenology of farmland floral resources reveals seasonal gaps in nectar availability for bumblebees

TP Timberlake, IP Vaughan… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Floral resources are known to be important in regulating wild pollinator populations and are
therefore an important component of agri‐environment and restoration schemes which aim …

Flower plantings support wild bee reproduction and may also mitigate pesticide exposure effects

M Rundlöf, C Stuligross, A Lindh… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sustainable agriculture relies on pollinators, and wild bees benefit yield of multiple crops.
However, the combined exposure to pesticides and loss of flower resources, driven by …

The importance of forests in bumble bee biology and conservation

JM Mola, J Hemberger, J Kochanski… - Bioscience, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Declines of many bumble bee species have raised concerns because of their importance as
pollinators and potential harbingers of declines among other insect taxa. At present, bumble …

Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology

JE Ogilvie, SR Griffin, ZJ Gezon, BD Inouye… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change can influence consumer populations both directly, by affecting survival and
reproduction, and indirectly, by altering resources. However, little is known about the relative …

Beyond flowers: including non-floral resources in bee conservation schemes

F Requier, SD Leonhardt - Journal of Insect Conservation, 2020 - Springer
Land-use change and habitat loss have profoundly disturbed the resource availability for
many organisms in farmlands, including bees. To counteract the resulting decline of bees …

When spring ephemerals fail to meet pollinators: mechanism of phenological mismatch and its impact on plant reproduction

G Kudo, EJ Cooper - Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The flowering phenology of early-blooming plants is largely determined by snowmelt timing
in high-latitude and high-altitude ecosystems. When the synchrony of flowering and …