Landscape impacts on pollinator communities in temperate systems: evidence and knowledge gaps

Historical nectar assessment reveals the fall and rise of floral resources in Britain

(2016) Mathilde Baude et al.   NATURE

Functional traits help to explain half-century long shifts in pollinator distributions

(2016) Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez et al.   Scientific Reports

Landscape simplification decreases wild bee pollination services to strawberry

(2015) Heather Connelly et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Effects of an agri-environment scheme on bumblebee reproduction at local and landscape scales

(2015) Claire Carvell et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Pollinator-friendly management does not increase the diversity of farmland bees and wasps

(2015) Thomas J. Wood et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

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

Sown flower strips in southern Sweden increase abundances of wild bees and hoverflies in the wider landscape

(2015) Annelie M. Jönsson et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The role of agri-environment schemes in conservation and environmental management

(2015) Péter Batáry et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Susceptibility of pollinators to ongoing landscape changes depends on landscape history

(2015) Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

Annual dynamics of wild bee densities: attractiveness and productivity effects of oilseed rape

(2015) Verena Riedinger et al.   ECOLOGY

Urban drivers of plant-pollinator interactions

(2015) Tina Harrison et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Contrasting patterns in species and functional-trait diversity of bees in an agricultural landscape

(2015) Jessica R. K. Forrest et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Ecological traits affect the sensitivity of bees to land-use pressures in European agricultural landscapes

(2015) Adriana De Palma et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

EDITOR'S CHOICE: Enhancing gardens as habitats for flower-visiting aerial insects (pollinators): should we plant native or exotic species?

(2015) Andrew Salisbury et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Local and landscape-level floral resources explain effects of wildflower strips on wild bees across four European countries

(2015) Jeroen Scheper et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Road mortality potentially responsible for billions of pollinating insect deaths annually

(2015) James H. Baxter-Gilbert et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Diversity and abundance of solitary and primitively eusocial bees in an urban centre: a case study from Northampton (England)

(2015) Muzafar Hussain Sirohi et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Neonicotinoid pesticide exposure impairs crop pollination services provided by bumblebees

(2015) Dara A. Stanley et al.   NATURE

Diversity of wild bees supports pollination services in an urbanized landscape

(2015) David M. Lowenstein et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

The impact of over 80 years of land cover changes on bee and wasp pollinator communities in England

(2015) D. Senapathi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

(2015) D. Goulson et al.   SCIENCE

Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents

(2015) J. T. Kerr et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2015) David Kleijn et al.   Nature Communications

Pollinator conservation—the difference between managing for pollination services and preserving pollinator diversity

(2015) Deepa Senapathi et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Density of insect-pollinated grassland plants decreases with increasing surrounding land-use intensity

(2015) Yann Clough et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

‘Bee Hotels’ as Tools for Native Pollinator Conservation: A Premature Verdict?

(2015) J. Scott MacIvor et al.   PLoS One

Landscape composition influences pollinators and pollination services in perennial biofuel plantings

(2014) Ashley B. Bennett et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Late-season mass-flowering red clover increases bumble bee queen and male densities

(2014) Maj Rundlöf et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Landscape composition and configuration differently affect trap-nesting bees, wasps and their antagonists

(2014) Juliane Steckel et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The winners and losers of land use intensification: pollinator community disassembly is non-random and alters functional diversity

(2014) Romina Rader et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Effects of Suburbanization on Forest Bee Communities

(2014) Adrian L. Carper et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Public approval plus more wildlife: twin benefits of reduced mowing of amenity grass in a suburban public park in Saltdean, UK

(2014) Mihail Garbuzov et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Evaluating the effectiveness of wildflower seed mixes for boosting floral diversity and bumblebee and hoverfly abundance in urban areas

(2014) Lorna M. Blackmore et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

On the verge? Preferential use of road-facing hedgerow margins by bumblebees in agro-ecosystems

(2014) Mick E. Hanley et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Different responses of bees and hoverflies to land use in an urban–rural gradient show the importance of the nature of the rural land use

(2014) Hans A.F. Verboven et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

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

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

Promoting Pollinating Insects in Intensive Agricultural Matrices: Field-Scale Experimental Manipulation of Hay-Meadow Mowing Regimes and Its Effects on Bees

(2014) Pierrick Buri et al.   PLoS One

Trait-Specific Responses of Wild Bee Communities to Landscape Composition, Configuration and Local Factors

(2014) Sebastian Hopfenmüller et al.   PLoS One

Exotics on exotics: Pollen analysis of urban bees visiting Sedum on a green roof

(2014) J. Scott MacIvor et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Landscape heterogeneity and farming practice alter the species composition and taxonomic breadth of pollinator communities

(2013) Georg K.S. Andersson et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Contrasting effects of habitat area and connectivity on evenness of pollinator communities

(2013) Lorenzo Marini et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Contrasting effects of mass-flowering crops on bee pollination of hedge plants at different spatial and temporal scales

(2013) Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Floral resources, body size, and surrounding landscape influence bee community assemblages in oak-savannah fragments

(2013) JULIE C. WRAY et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW-European pollinators and plants

(2013) Luísa Gigante Carvalheiro et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Environmental factors driving the effectiveness of European agri-environmental measures in mitigating pollinator loss - a meta-analysis

(2013) Jeroen Scheper et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Threats to an ecosystem service: pressures on pollinators

(2013) Adam J Vanbergen et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Quantifying variation among garden plants in attractiveness to bees and other flower-visiting insects

(2013) Mihail Garbuzov et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Mass-flowering crops increase richness of cavity-nesting bees and wasps in modern agro-ecosystems

(2013) Tim Diekötter et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Urban land use limits regional bumble bee gene flow

(2013) Shalene Jha et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2013) L. A. Burkle et al.   SCIENCE

Combined effects of global change pressures on animal-mediated pollination

(2013) Juan P. González-Varo et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Diesel exhaust rapidly degrades floral odours used by honeybees

(2013) Robbie D. Girling et al.   Scientific Reports

Early reproductive benefits of mass-flowering crops to the solitary bee Osmia rufa outbalance post-flowering disadvantages

(2012) Frank Jauker et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Detecting Insect Pollinator Declines on Regional and Global Scales

(2012) Gretchen Lebuhn et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Mass-flowering crops enhance wild bee abundance

(2012) Andrea Holzschuh et al.   OECOLOGIA

Direct and indirect effects of land use on floral resources and flower-visiting insects across an urban landscape

(2012) K. C. Matteson et al.   OIKOS

Resource diversity and landscape-level homogeneity drive native bee foraging

(2012) S. Jha et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

(2012) K. C. Seto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Solitary bee abundance and species richness in dynamic agricultural landscapes

(2011) Violette Le Féon et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits

(2011) Lucas A. Garibaldi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Management to enhance pollen and nectar resources for bumblebees and butterflies within intensively farmed landscapes

(2011) R. F. Pywell et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

A comparison of bee communities of Chicago green roofs, parks and prairies

(2011) Rebecca Tonietto et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Increased bumblebee abundance along the margins of a mass flowering crop: evidence for pollinator spill-over

(2011) M. E. Hanley et al.   OIKOS

How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals?

(2011) Jeff Ollerton et al.   OIKOS

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

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

Intensification of agriculture, landscape composition and wild bee communities: A large scale study in four European countries

(2010) Violette Le Féon et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Impacts of a pesticide on pollinator species richness at different spatial scales

(2010) C.A. Brittain et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Response of arthropod species richness and functional groups to urban habitat structure and management

(2010) T. Sattler et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Compounded effects of climate change and habitat alteration shift patterns of butterfly diversity

(2010) M. L. Forister et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Determinates of inner city butterfly and bee species richness

(2010) Kevin C. Matteson et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Landscape context and habitat type as drivers of bee diversity in European annual crops

(2009) Gabriel Carré et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Detecting changes in habitat-scale bee foraging in a tropical fragmented landscape using stable isotopes

(2009) Berry J. Brosi et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Oilseed rape crops distort plant-pollinator interactions

(2009) Tim Diekötter et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Do linear landscape elements in farmland act as biological corridors for pollen dispersal?

(2009) Anja Van Geert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Bumble Bees (Bombus spp) along a Gradient of Increasing Urbanization

(2009) Karin Ahrné et al.   PLoS One

Contrasting resource-dependent responses of hoverfly richness and density to landscape structure

(2008) Birgit Meyer et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Landscape effects on crop pollination services: are there general patterns?

(2008) Taylor H. Ricketts et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Mass flowering oilseed rape improves early colony growth but not sexual reproduction of bumblebees

(2008) C. Westphal et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Are ecosystem services stabilized by differences among species? A test using crop pollination

(2008) R. Winfree et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES