Big city Bombus : using natural history and land-use history to find significant environmental drivers in bumble-bee declines in urban development

Words alone will not protect pollinators

(2017) David Inouye et al.   SCIENCE

Impacts of neonicotinoid use on long-term population changes in wild bees in England

(2016) Ben A. Woodcock et al.   Nature Communications

Designing Landscapes for Performance Based on Emerging Principles in Landscape Ecology

(2016) Sarah Taylor Lovell et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Seed coating with a neonicotinoid insecticide negatively affects wild bees

(2015) Maj Rundlöf et al.   NATURE

Pollination service to urban agriculture in San Francisco, CA

(2015) Andrew Potter et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Neonicotinoids impact bumblebee colony fitness in the field; a reanalysis of the UK’s Food & Environment Research Agency 2012 experiment

(2015) Dave Goulson   PeerJ

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

Land-use impacts on plant–pollinator networks: interaction strength and specialization predict pollinator declines

(2013) Christiane Natalie Weiner et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

The Value of Urban Vacant Land to Support Arthropod Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

(2013) Mary M. Gardiner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Urban land use limits regional bumble bee gene flow

(2013) Shalene Jha et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Plant Pollinator Networks along a Gradient of Urbanisation

(2013) Benoît Geslin et al.   PLoS One

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

Neonicotinoids, bee disorders and the sustainability of pollinator services

(2013) Jeroen P van der Sluijs et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Local and landscape drivers of arthropod abundance, richness, and trophic composition in urban habitats

(2013) Stacy M. Philpott et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

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

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

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

Neonicotinoid Pesticide Reduces Bumble Bee Colony Growth and Queen Production

(2012) P. R. Whitehorn et al.   SCIENCE

Ecosystem services provided by urban spontaneous vegetation

(2012) Sarah L. Robinson et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Native Pollinators in Anthropogenic Habitats

(2011) Rachael Winfree et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Landscape-scale resources promote colony growth but not reproductive performance of bumble bees

(2011) Neal M. Williams et al.   ECOLOGY

Wild bees along an urban gradient: winners and losers

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

Space Use of Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) Revealed by Radio-Tracking

(2011) Melanie Hagen et al.   PLoS One

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

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

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

Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

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

Spider, bee, and bird communities in cities are shaped by environmental control and high stochasticity

(2010) T. Sattler et al.   ECOLOGY

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

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

Bumblebee vulnerability and conservation world-wide

(2009) Paul H. Williams et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Environmental factors affecting bee diversity in urban and remote grassland plots in Boulder, Colorado

(2009) Carol A. Kearns et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

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

(2009) Karin Ahrné et al.   PLoS One

Economic valuation of the vulnerability of world agriculture confronted with pollinator decline

(2008) Nicola Gallai et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

How does climate warming affect plant-pollinator interactions?

(2008) Stein Joar Hegland et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals

(2008) Michael L. McKinney   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Decline and Conservation of Bumble Bees

(2007) D. Goulson et al.   Annual Review of Entomology