Do pathogen spillover, pesticide use, or habitat loss explain recent North American bumblebee declines?

Effects of Invasive Parasites on Bumble Bee Declines

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Interspecific geographic distribution and variation of the pathogens Nosema bombi and Crithidia species in United States bumble bee populations

(2011) Nils Cordes et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Recent ecological responses to climate change support predictions of high extinction risk

(2011) I. M. D. Maclean et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

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Introduction to the Special Feature for Ecological Risk Assessment of Introduced Bumblebees: Status of the European bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, in Japan as a beneficial pollinator and an invasive alien species

(2010) Koichi Goka   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Evidence for the decline of the western bumble bee (Bombus occidentalis Greene) in British Columbia

(2010) Sheila R. Colla et al.   PAN-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGIST

RNA Viruses in Hymenopteran Pollinators: Evidence of Inter-Taxa Virus Transmission via Pollen and Potential Impact on Non-Apis Hymenopteran Species

(2010) Rajwinder Singh et al.   PLoS One

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

Evidence for decline in eastern North American bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with special focus on Bombus affinis Cresson

(2008) Sheila R. Colla et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Decline of bumble bees (Bombus) in the North American Midwest

(2008) Jennifer C. Grixti et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Human land use, agriculture, pesticides and losses of imperiled species

(2008) Katherine E. Gibbs et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Does Pathogen Spillover from Commercially Reared Bumble Bees Threaten Wild Pollinators?

(2008) Michael C. Otterstatter et al.   PLoS One

Decline and Conservation of Bumble Bees

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