By facilitating plant reproduction, pollinators perform a crucial ecological function that
supports the majority of the world's plant diversity, and associated organisms, and a …

Loss of natural habitat through land‐use change threatens bees. Urbanisation is a major,
increasing form, of habitat loss, and a novel, pervasive form of disturbance known to impact …

The western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most frequent floral visitor of crops worldwide,
but quantitative knowledge of its role as a pollinator outside of managed habitats is largely …

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 …

Highlights•Social insects have started spreading during the early phases of
globalization.•Multiple independent introductions and bridgehead effects are …

Wild bees, like many other taxa, are threatened by land‐use and climate change, which, in
turn, jeopardizes pollination of crops and wild plants. Understanding how land‐use and …

Pollination by insects is an essential service for the conservation of plant biodiversity, since it
increases the rate of fertilization of flowers and therefore increases the quality and quantity …

Global changes are severely affecting pollinator insect communities worldwide, resulting in
repeated patterns of species extirpations and extinctions. Whilst negative population trends …

In recent years, conservation biologists have raised awareness about the risk of ecological
interference between massively introduced managed honeybees and the native wild bee …

The mutualistic interactions of plant‐pollinator networks provide myriad economic,
ecological, and cultural constituents without which there would be severe environmental and …