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

A systems approach reveals urban pollinator hotspots and conservation opportunities

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

Are all urban green spaces a favourable habitat for pollinator communities? Bees, butterflies and hoverflies in different urban green areas

(2019) Łukasz Dylewski et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Wastelands: their attractiveness and importance for preserving the diversity of wild bees in urban areas

(2019) Lucyna Twerd et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Urban meadows as an alternative to short mown grassland: effects of composition and height on biodiversity

(2019) Briony A. Norton et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Wild bees in urban grasslands: Urbanisation, functional diversity and species traits

(2019) Sascha Buchholz et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

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

(2018) Katrin Luder et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Beyond green: Broad support for biodiversity in multicultural European cities

(2018) Leonie K. Fischer et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Estimates of accessible food resources for pollinators in urban landscapes should take landscape friction into account

(2018) Victor Johansson et al.   Ecosphere

Trees for bees

(2018) Philip Donkersley   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Conservation of hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) requires complementary resources at the landscape and local scales

(2017) Laura Moquet et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

How green is your garden?: Urban form and socio-demographic factors influence yard vegetation, visitation, and ecosystem service benefits

(2017) B.B. Lin et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

“Not in their front yard” The opportunities and challenges of introducing perennial urban meadows: A local authority stakeholder perspective

(2017) Helen Hoyle et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Patterns of pollinator turnover and increasing diversity associated with urban habitats

(2017) Kyle T. Martins et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Measuring floral resource availability for insect pollinators in temperate grasslands - a review

(2016) VIKTOR SZIGETI et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Landscape and Local Correlates of Bee Abundance and Species Richness in Urban Gardens

(2016) Robyn D. Quistberg et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

(2016) Simon G. Potts et al.   NATURE

Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands

(2016) Christopher Bren d’Amour et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Disentangling urban habitat and matrix effects on wild bee species

(2016) Leonie K. Fischer et al.   PeerJ

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

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

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

(2015) D. Goulson et al.   SCIENCE

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

Land sharing vs. land sparing: does the compact city reconcile urban development and biodiversity conservation?

(2014) Masashi Soga et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Mitigating and adapting to climate change: Multi-functional and multi-scale assessment of green urban infrastructure

(2014) M. Demuzere et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Guidelines on sampling intensity of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes)

(2014) Józef Banaszak 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

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

The paradox of the sustainable city: definitions and examples

(2014) Abbas M. Hassan et al.   ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

Seasonal persistence of bumblebee populations is affected by landscape context

(2013) Anna S. Persson et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

The Bumblebees Scarcity Syndrome: Are heat waves leading to local extinctions of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae:Bombus)?

(2013) Pierre Rasmont et al.   ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

The effect of climatic variation on abundance and diversity of bumblebees: a ten years survey in a mountain hotspot

(2013) Stéphanie Iserbyt et al.   ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

REVIEW: Managing urban ecosystems for goods and services

(2013) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Optimizing landscape selection for estimating relative effects of landscape variables on ecological responses

(2013) Jon Pasher et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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

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

Why garden for wildlife? Social and ecological drivers, motivations and barriers for biodiversity management in residential landscapes

(2012) Mark A. Goddard et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Gardens benefit bees and enhance pollination in intensively managed farmland

(2011) Ulrika Samnegård et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Assessing bee species richness in two Mediterranean communities: importance of habitat type and sampling techniques

(2011) Anders Nielsen et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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

Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

(2009) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Urbanisation induces early flowering: evidence from Platanus acerifolia and Prunus cerasus

(2009) A. Mimet et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments

(2009) Mark A. Goddard et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Bee Fauna of Residential Gardens in a Suburb of New York City (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)

(2008) Evelyn D. Fetridge et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

MEASURING BEE DIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN HABITATS AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS

(2008) Catrin Westphal et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS