Global-scale drivers of crop visitor diversity and the historical development of agriculture

Species turnover promotes the importance of bee diversity for crop pollination at regional scales

(2018) Rachael Winfree et al.   SCIENCE

Forest bees are replaced in agricultural and urban landscapes by native species with different phenologies and life-history traits

(2017) Tina Harrison et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Community level niche overlap and broad scale biogeographic patterns of bee communities are driven by phylogenetic history

(2017) Markus Arne Kjaer Sydenham et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evolutionary and domestication history of Cucurbita (pumpkin and squash) species inferred from 44 nuclear loci

(2017) Heather R. Kates et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Chromosome numbers, Sudanese wild forms, and classification of the watermelon genus Citrullus, with 50 names allocated to seven biological species

(2017) Susanne S. Renner et al.   TAXON

Overview of the origins and history of the five major cucurbit crops: issues for ancient DNA analysis of archaeological specimens

(2016) Harry S. Paris   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Positive and Negative Impacts of Non-Native Bee Species around the World

(2016) Laura Russo   Insects

Gourds and squashes (Cucurbitaspp.) adapted to megafaunal extinction and ecological anachronism through domestication

(2015) Logan Kistler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

(2015) Romina Rader et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Negative effects of pesticides on wild bee communities can be buffered by landscape context

(2015) Mia G. Park et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2015) D. Goulson et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2015) David Kleijn et al.   Nature Communications

Pollinator-driven ecological speciation in plants: new evidence and future perspectives

(2014) Timotheüs Van der Niet et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Watermelon origin solved with molecular phylogenetics including Linnaean material: another example of museomics

(2014) Guillaume Chomicki et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2014) Jeroen Scheper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems

(2013) Christina M. Kennedy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Intra- and interpopulational variation in the ability of a solitary bee species to develop on non-host pollen: implications for host range expansion

(2013) Mare Haider et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Bees diversified in the age of eudicots

(2013) S. Cardinal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2013) L. A. Burkle et al.   SCIENCE

Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

(2013) L. A. Garibaldi et al.   SCIENCE

The Impact of Molecular Data on Our Understanding of Bee Phylogeny and Evolution

(2012) Bryan N. Danforth et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

From April to August—Wild Bees Pollinating Crops Through the Growing Season in Virginia, Usa

(2012) N. L. Adamson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Patterns and processes in crop domestication: an historical review and quantitative analysis of 203 global food crops

(2012) Rachel S. Meyer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals?

(2011) Jeff Ollerton et al.   OIKOS

Sunflower domestication alleles support single domestication center in eastern North America

(2011) B. K. Blackman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global growth and stability of agricultural yield decrease with pollinator dependence

(2011) L. A. Garibaldi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and melon (C. melo) have numerous wild relatives in Asia and Australia, and the sister species of melon is from Australia

(2010) P. Sebastian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

(2010) Simon G. Potts et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Early steps of angiosperm pollinator coevolution

(2008) S. Hu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gourds afloat: a dated phylogeny reveals an Asian origin of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) and numerous oversea dispersal events

(2008) H. Schaefer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES