Urban areas are growing worldwide and alter landscapes in a persistent fashion, thereby
affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services such as pollination in a little understood way …

Though they are relatively understudied, non-native bees are ubiquitous and have
enormous potential economic and environmental impacts. These impacts may be positive or …

A unique and personal insight into the ecology and evolution of pollinators, their
relationships with flowers, and their conservation in a rapidly changing world. The …

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 …

Among physiological processes, the maintenance of immunity is one of the most
energetically costly in invertebrates. Disease resistance can be quantified by measuring …

Urban hedges provide a number of important ecosystem services (ESs) including
microclimate alteration, flood and pollution mitigation, and biodiversity provision, along with …

Urbanization poses a major threat to biodiversity and food security, as expanding cities,
especially in the Global South, increasingly compete with natural and agricultural lands …

Agri-environment schemes are programmes where landholders enter into voluntary
agreements (typically with governments) to manage agricultural land for environmental …

To assess the ability of traditional biological recording schemes and lay citizen science
approaches to gather data on species distributions and changes therein, we examined …

A problem for understanding bumblebee biogeography is that if bumblebees dispersed from
Asia through North America to South America, if they are poor at long-distance dispersal …