How wild bees find a way in European cities: Pollen metabarcoding unravels multiple feeding strategies and their effects on distribution patterns in four wild bee species

Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes

(2021) Nicholas E. Tew et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Many small rather than few large sources identified in long-term bee pollen diets in agroecosystems

(2021) Rachele S. Wilson et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Red and white clover provide food resources for honeybees and wild bees in urban environments

(2021) Laura Kanduth et al.   NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Anthropogenic disturbance favours generalist over specialist parasites in bird communities: Implications for risk of disease emergence

(2021) Guha Dharmarajan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Standard methods for pollen research

(2021) Maria G. Campos et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

A dataset of the flowering plants (Angiospermae) in urban green areas in five European cities

(2021) Joan Casanelles-Abella et al.   Data in Brief

Applying predictive models to study the ecological properties of urban ecosystems: A case study in Zürich, Switzerland

(2021) Joan Casanelles-Abella et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

BCdatabaser: on-the-fly reference database creation for (meta-)barcoding

(2020) Alexander Keller et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The origin of urban communities: From the regional species pool to community assemblages in city

(2020) Bertrand Fournier et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Beyond flowers: including non-floral resources in bee conservation schemes

(2020) Fabrice Requier et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

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

(2020) Panagiotis Theodorou et al.   Nature Communications

Pollen Protein: Lipid Macronutrient Ratios May Guide Broad Patterns of Bee Species Floral Preferences

(2020) Anthony D. Vaudo et al.   Insects

Opportunities and threats for pollinator conservation in global towns and cities

(2020) Katherine CR Baldock   Current Opinion in Insect Science

The Global Urban Tree Inventory: A database of the diverse tree flora that inhabits the world’s cities

(2020) Alessandro Ossola et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

(2020) David Leclère et al.   NATURE

The structure of plant–herbivore interaction networks varies along elevational gradients in the European Alps

(2020) Camille Pitteloud et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evaluation of the importance of ornamental plants for pollinators in urban and suburban areas in Stuttgart, Germany

(2020) Melanie Marquardt et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

A systems approach reveals urban pollinator hotspots and conservation opportunities

(2019) Katherine C. R. Baldock et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Uncertainty in ensembles of global biodiversity scenarios

(2019) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

Trap nests for bees and wasps to analyse trophic interactions in changing environments-A systematic overview and user guide

(2018) Michael Staab et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Biodiversity in the city: key challenges for urban green space management

(2017) Myla FJ Aronson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

PCR cycles above routine numbers do not compromise high-throughput DNA barcoding results

(2017) J. Vierna et al.   GENOME

Enhancing plant diversity in agricultural landscapes promotes both rare bees and dominant crop-pollinating bees through complementary increase in key floral resources

(2017) Louis Sutter et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Pollen DNA barcoding: current applications and future prospects

(2016) Karen L. Bell et al.   GENOME

Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

(2016) Simon G. Potts et al.   NATURE

Functional homogenization of flower visitor communities with urbanization

(2016) Nicolas Deguines et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Food in a row: urban trees offer valuable floral resources to pollinating insects

(2016) Laurent Somme et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

(2016) Torbjørn Rognes et al.   PeerJ

Error filtering, pair assembly and error correction for next-generation sequencing reads

(2015) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Urban drivers of plant-pollinator interactions

(2015) Tina Harrison et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A landscape ecology approach identifies important drivers of urban biodiversity

(2015) Tabea Turrini et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

ITS2 Database V: Twice as Much: Table 1.

(2015) Markus J. Ankenbrand et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Increased efficiency in identifying mixed pollen samples by meta-barcoding with a dual-indexing approach

(2015) Wiebke Sickel et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Pollinator assemblages on dandelions and white clover in urban and suburban lawns

(2014) Jonathan L. Larson et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Evaluating multiplexed next-generation sequencing as a method in palynology for mixed pollen samples

(2014) A. Keller et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

How Does Pollen Chemistry Impact Development and Feeding Behaviour of Polylectic Bees?

(2014) Maryse Vanderplanck et al.   PLoS One

Phylogeny and floral hosts of a predominantly pollen generalist group of mason bees (Megachilidae: Osmiini)

(2013) Mare Haider et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

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

(2013) Mihail Garbuzov et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Pollen mixing in pollen generalist solitary bees: a possible strategy to complement or mitigate unfavourable pollen properties?

(2013) Michael Eckhardt et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

“Freshwater Killer Whales”: Beaching Behavior of an Alien Fish to Hunt Land Birds

(2012) Julien Cucherousset et al.   PLoS One

Radar Tracking and Motion-Sensitive Cameras on Flowers Reveal the Development of Pollinator Multi-Destination Routes over Large Spatial Scales

(2012) Mathieu Lihoreau et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Closely related pollen generalist bees differ in their ability to develop on the same pollen diet: evidence for physiological adaptations to digest pollen

(2011) Claudio Sedivy et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Uncertainty in ensemble forecasting of species distribution

(2009) LAËTITIA BUISSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Flowering phenology of invasive alien plant species compared with native species in three Mediterranean-type ecosystems

(2008) Oscar Godoy et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

SPECIALIZED BEES FAIL TO DEVELOP ON NON-HOST POLLEN: DO PLANTS CHEMICALLY PROTECT THEIR POLLEN

(2008) Christophe J. Praz et al.   ECOLOGY

PATTERNS OF HOST-PLANT CHOICE IN BEES OF THE GENUSCHELOSTOMA: THE CONSTRAINT HYPOTHESIS OF HOST-RANGE EVOLUTION IN BEES

(2008) Claudio Sedivy et al.   EVOLUTION