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Status changes in the wild bees of north‐eastern North America over 125 years revealed through museum specimens

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Farming for bees: annual variation in pollinator populations across agricultural landscapes

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Decline of bumble bees in northeastern North America, with special focus on Bombus terricola

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Experimental warming in the field delays phenology and reduces body mass, fat content and survival: Implications for the persistence of a pollinator under climate change

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Metamorphosis is induced by food absence rather than a critical weight in the solitary bee,Osmia lignaria

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Global decline of bumblebees is phylogenetically structured and inversely related to species range size and pathogen incidence

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Economic Measures of Pollination Services: Shortcomings and Future Directions

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A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination

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Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers

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Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents

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Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

(2015) David Kleijn et al.   Nature Communications

Seasonal trends in the condition of nesting females of a solitary bee: wing wear, lipid content, and oocyte size

(2015) Kevin M. O’Neill et al.   PeerJ

Colonies of Bumble Bees (Bombus impatiens) Produce Fewer Workers, Less Bee Biomass, and Have Smaller Mother Queens Following Fungicide Exposure

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Lethal and sublethal effects of azadirachtin on the bumblebee Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2014) Wagner Faria Barbosa et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

Museum specimens reveal loss of pollen host plants as key factor driving wild bee decline in The Netherlands

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Influence of combined pesticide and parasite exposure on bumblebee colony traits in the laboratory

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Bumblebee community homogenization after uphill shifts in montane areas of northern Spain

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Historical changes in northeastern US bee pollinators related to shared ecological traits

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Plant-Pollinator Interactions over 120 Years: Loss of Species, Co-Occurrence, and Function

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Assessing declines of North American bumble bees (Bombus spp.) using museum specimens

(2012) Sheila R. Colla et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Thermal tolerance and the global redistribution of animals

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Bumblebee colonies produce larger foragers in complex landscapes

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Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

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Drastic historic shifts in bumble-bee community composition in Sweden

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Wing wear affects wing use and choice of floral density in foraging bumble bees

(2010) Danusha J. Foster et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Ecological and life-history traits predict bee species responses to environmental disturbances

(2010) Neal M. Williams et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: how climate change and alien species interact to affect pollination

(2010) Oliver Schweiger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Nesting biology and subsociality in Ceratina calcarata (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2010) Sandra M. Rehan et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Small worker bumble bees (Bombus impatiens) are hardier against starvation than their larger sisters

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Bumblebee Vulnerability: Common Correlates of Winners and Losers across Three Continents

(2009) PAUL WILLIAMS et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

A meta-analysis of bees' responses to anthropogenic disturbance

(2009) Rachael Winfree et al.   ECOLOGY

Evidence for decline in eastern North American bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with special focus on Bombus affinis Cresson

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Decline of bumble bees (Bombus) in the North American Midwest

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A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF POLLEN HOST PLANT USE BY STABLE AND DECLINING BUMBLE BEE SPECIES

(2008) David Kleijn et al.   ECOLOGY

Evidence for competition between honeybees and bumblebees; effects on bumblebee worker size

(2008) David Goulson et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Decline and Conservation of Bumble Bees

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