Heterogeneous agroecosystems support high diversity and abundance of trap‐nesting bees and wasps among tropical crops

JGE Coutinho, C Angel‐Coca, D Boscolo… - Biotropica, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use intensification for agricultural purposes modifies the structure of natural
environments in various ways and at different spatial scales. These modifications can affect …

Bee functional groups respond to vegetation cover and landscape diversity in a Brazilian metropolis

LV Graf, I Schneiberg, RB Gonçalves - Landscape Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Context Urbanization is one of the largest causes of habitat loss and fragmentation, factors
that modify community structure and can lead to species extinction. Since bees are the main …

Euglossini bee diversity is driven by forest cover in coastal Amazon

J de Jesus Corrêa-Neto, ML de Oliveira… - Neotropical …, 2024 - Springer
Habitat loss and fragmentation are drivers of biodiversity loss, such as Euglossini bees in
continental regions. Knowledge about these effects on this group of pollinators in coastal …

Relationship between parameters of public parks and their surroundings and the richness, diversity and species composition of vascular herbaceous plants on the …

Ł Moszkowicz, I Krzeptowska-Moszkowicz… - Landscape …, 2021 - landscape-online.org
Greenery is a natural value in urban space. To maintain the richness and diversity of
greenery, it is necessary to understand the factors and mechanisms that influence …

Agricultural landscape influences on the solitary bees and wasps that nest in ecological restoration sites

AL Gobatto, PN Miranda, N Uemura… - Biodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
Global initiatives to reforest degraded areas have intensified in recent years, arising from
advances in agricultural frontiers that mainly alter natural landscapes and suppress …

Industrial forestry negatively affects small-farms honey production in south-central Chile: evidence from a landscape scale

AJ Alaniz, A Valenzuela, PM Vergara… - Journal of Apicultural …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Land use and cover change have a high influence on bee species, where honey bees (Apis
mellifera) could be affected in terms of resources, dispersal, and habitat. However, the …

Bee diversity patterns in coastal Amazonia: effects of local habitat and landscape heterogeneity

JJ Corrêa-Neto, J Hipólito, ML Oliveira - Journal of Insect Conservation, 2024 - Springer
Estuarine floodplain forests and mangroves play an important ecological role in nature. Little
is known, however, about the contribution of these environments and their surroundings to …

Is being green what matters? Functional diversity of cavity‐nesting bees and wasps and their interaction networks with parasites in different reforestation types in …

GJ de Araújo, D Storck‐Tonon… - Insect Conservation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the processes that shape biotic interactions within biological communities
helps us to develop strategies for the establishment of ecological communities and to …

A first report of plastic use for nesting materials in an apoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Isodontia elegans)

MC Orr, FD Parker - … Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, 2023 - BioOne
Plastic use has recently been reported for numerous bee species but it had so far remained
undocumented for the related apoid wasps. Here, we report a female of Isodontia elegans …

Plant traits interplay to balance pollen limitation in the Brazilian seasonal dry forest: A meta-analysis

T Amorim, AMM Santos, NM Almeida, RR Novo… - Journal of Arid …, 2021 - Elsevier
Animal pollination is one of the most important ecosystem services that benefit both natural
plant communities and plant crops. A failure in pollination service can result in pollen …