Seasonal Variations of Pollinator Assemblages among Urban and Rural Habitats: A Comparative Approach Using a Standardized Plant Community

Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects

(2020) Panagiotis Theodorou et al.   Nature Communications

Negative effects of urbanization on terrestrial arthropod communities: A meta‐analysis

(2020) María Silvina Fenoglio et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Spring wildflower phenology and pollinator activity respond similarly to climatic variation in an eastern hardwood forest

(2020) Manuel Sevenello et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional ecology of wild bees in cities: towards a better understanding of trait-urbanization relationships

(2020) Sascha Buchholz et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Urbanisation is associated with shifts in bumblebee body size, with cascading effects on pollination

(2020) Panagiotis Theodorou et al.   Evolutionary Applications

More losses than gains in ground-nesting bees over 60 years of urbanization

(2020) Felipe Walter Pereira et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Exotic garden plants partly substitute for native plants as resources for pollinators when native plants become seasonally scarce

(2020) Michael Staab et al.   OECOLOGIA

Wild bees and hoverflies respond differently to urbanisation, human population density and urban form

(2020) Anna S. Persson et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Ecological filtering in scrub fragments restructures the taxonomic and functional composition of native bee assemblages

(2019) Keng‐Lou James Hung et al.   ECOLOGY

Phenology of farmland floral resources reveals seasonal gaps in nectar availability for bumblebees

(2019) Thomas P. Timberlake et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Urban bumblebees are smaller and more phenotypically diverse than their rural counterparts

(2019) Helen Eggenberger et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Wild pollinator activity negatively related to honey bee colony densities in urban context

(2019) Lise Ropars et al.   PLoS One

How urbanization is driving pollinator diversity and pollination – A systematic review

(2019) Arne Wenzel et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Shift in size of bumblebee queens over the last century

(2019) Maxence Gérard et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Intraspecific variation in body size of bumblebee workers influences anti‐predator behaviour

(2019) Sabrina S. Gavini et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Contrasting responses in community structure and phenology of migratory and non-migratory pollinators to urbanization

(2018) Katrin Luder et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Patterns of size variation in bees at a continental scale: does Bergmann’s rule apply?

(2018) Maxence Gérard et al.   OIKOS

Lower bumblebee colony reproductive success in agricultural compared with urban environments

(2018) Ash E. Samuelson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

City parks vs. natural areas - is it possible to preserve a natural level of bee richness and abundance in a city park?

(2018) Weronika Banaszak-Cibicka et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Floral morphology as the main driver of flower-feeding insect occurrences in the Paris region

(2018) James Desaegher et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Wild bee abundance declines with urban warming, regardless of floral density

(2018) April L. Hamblin et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Reduction by half: the impact on bees of 34 years of urbanization

(2018) Marina Candido Cardoso et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Domestic gardens as favorable pollinator habitats in impervious landscapes

(2018) Marine Levé et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

Body size phenology in a regional bee fauna: a temporal extension of Bergmann's rule

(2016) Sergio Osorio-Canadas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Intraspecific body size increases with habitat fragmentation in wild bee pollinators

(2016) Daniela Warzecha et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

The proportion of impervious surfaces at the landscape scale structures wild bee assemblages in a densely populated region

(2016) Benoît Geslin et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Functional homogenization of flower visitor communities with urbanization

(2016) Nicolas Deguines et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The bee fauna of large parks in downtown Paris, France

(2015) Benoît Geslin et al.   ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

The conservation value of urban green space habitats for Australian native bee communities

(2015) Caragh G. Threlfall et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

How much flower-rich habitat is enough for wild pollinators? Answering a key policy question with incomplete knowledge

(2015) LYNN V. DICKS et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Urban drivers of plant-pollinator interactions

(2015) Tina Harrison et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Where is the UK's pollinator biodiversity? The importance of urban areas for flower-visiting insects

(2015) K. C. R. Baldock et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in an urbanizing planet

(2015) Marina Alberti   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Comparative methods offer powerful insights into social evolution in bees

(2014) Sarah D. Kocher et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Flowering phenology and nesting resources influence pollinator community composition in a fragmented ecosystem

(2014) Julie C. Wray et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Decreasing Abundance, Increasing Diversity and Changing Structure of the Wild Bee Community (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) along an Urbanization Gradient

(2014) Laura Fortel et al.   PLoS One

Native plants are the bee’s knees: local and landscape predictors of bee richness and abundance in backyard gardens

(2014) Gabriella L. Pardee et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Social influences on body size and developmental time in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

(2013) Hagai Shpigler et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Plant Pollinator Networks along a Gradient of Urbanisation

(2013) Benoît Geslin et al.   PLoS One

Where Are We Now? Bergmann’s Rule Sensu Lato in Insects

(2012) Matan Shelomi   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses

(2012) Teja Tscharntke et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Roles of scale, matrix, and native habitat in supporting a diverse suburban pollinator assemblage

(2012) Sarah J. Hinners et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Pollinator nesting guilds respond differently to urban habitat fragmentation in an oak-savannah ecosystem

(2012) LISA A. NEAME et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Phylogeny of halictine bees supports a shared origin of eusociality for Halictus and Lasioglossum (Apoidea: Anthophila: Halictidae)

(2012) Jason Gibbs et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

The Whereabouts of Flower Visitors: Contrasting Land-Use Preferences Revealed by a Country-Wide Survey Based on Citizen Science

(2012) Nicolas Deguines et al.   PLoS One

Richness, composition and trophic niche of stingless bee assemblages in urban forest remnants

(2012) Yasmine Antonini et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Wild bees along an urban gradient: winners and losers

(2011) Weronika Banaszak-Cibicka et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Changing Bee and Hoverfly Pollinator Assemblages along an Urban-Rural Gradient

(2011) Adam J. Bates et al.   PLoS One

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

(2010) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Winter Active Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) Achieve High Foraging Rates in Urban Britain

(2010) Ralph J. Stelzer et al.   PLoS One

Location, location, location: larvae position inside the nest is correlated with adult body size in worker bumble-bees (Bombus impatiens)

(2009) M. J. Couvillon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bee Richness and Abundance in New York City Urban Gardens

(2008) Kevin C. Matteson et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE