Effect of urbanization and its environmental stressors on the intraspecific variation of flight functional traits in two bumblebee species

Reduced nest development of reared Bombus terrestris within apiary dense human-modified landscapes

(2021) Ivan Meeus et al.   Scientific Reports

Thermal flight performance reveals impact of warming on bumblebee foraging potential

(2021) Daniel Kenna et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses

(2021) Kevin Maebe et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impact of land use intensification and local features on plants and pollinators in Sub-Saharan smallholder farms

(2021) Nicola Tommasi et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

U1 snRNP regulates cancer cell migration and invasion in vitro

(2020) Jung-Min Oh et al.   Nature Communications

Urbanization drivers differentially affect ground arthropod assemblages in the city of Turin (NW-Italy)

(2020) Elena Piano et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Functional ecology of wild bees in cities: towards a better understanding of trait-urbanization relationships

(2020) Sascha Buchholz et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Urbanisation is associated with shifts in bumblebee body size, with cascading effects on pollination

(2020) Panagiotis Theodorou et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Shifting Breeding Phenology in Eurasian Kestrels Falco tinnunculus: Effects of Weather and Urbanization

(2020) Katharina Huchler et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Effects of diet and temperature on monarch butterfly wing morphology and flight ability

(2020) Abrianna J. Soule et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Thermoregulation in the large carpenter bee Xylocopa frontalis in the face of climate change in the Neotropics

(2020) Felipe Jackson de Farias-Silva et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Global effects of extreme temperatures on wild bumblebees

(2020) Baptiste Martinet et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Larger pollinators deposit more pollen on stigmas across multiple plant species—A meta‐analysis

(2020) Rita Földesi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Metabolic rate predicts the lifespan of workers in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens

(2019) Evan P. Kelemen et al.   APIDOLOGIE

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

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

Experimental loss of generalist plants reveals alterations in plant-pollinator interactions and a constrained flexibility of foraging

(2019) Paolo Biella et al.   Scientific Reports

Urban Green Space Fragmentation and Urbanization: A Spatiotemporal Perspective

(2019) Fangzheng Li et al.   Forests

Road verges support pollinators in agricultural landscapes, but are diminished by heavy traffic and summer cutting

(2019) Benjamin B. Phillips et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Historical changes in bumble bee body size and range shift of declining species

(2019) Sabine S. Nooten et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

How urbanization is driving pollinator diversity and pollination – A systematic review

(2019) Arne Wenzel et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Shift in size of bumblebee queens over the last century

(2019) Maxence Gérard et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Foraging strategies are maintained despite workforce reduction: A multidisciplinary survey on the pollen collected by a social pollinator

(2019) Paolo Biella et al.   PLoS One

How many leaves are enough? The influence of sample size on estimates of plant developmental instability and leaf asymmetry

(2018) Estevão Alves-Silva et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

(2018) Thomas Merckx et al.   NATURE

Patterns of size variation in bees at a continental scale: does Bergmann’s rule apply?

(2018) Maxence Gérard et al.   OIKOS

Effects of urbanisation and management practices on pollinators in tropical Africa

(2018) Solène Guenat et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Stressful conditions reveal decrease in size, modification of shape but relatively stable asymmetry in bumblebee wings

(2018) Maxence Gerard et al.   Scientific Reports

Urbanisation and wing asymmetry in the western honey bee (Apis mellifera, Linnaeus 1758) at multiple scales

(2018) Ryan J. Leonard et al.   PeerJ

Wing size but not wing shape is related to migratory behavior in a soaring bird

(2017) Maricel Graña Grilli et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Asymmetry costs: effects of wing damage on hovering flight performance in the hawkmothManduca sexta

(2017) María José Fernández et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Distribution and predictors of wing shape and size variability in three sister species of solitary bees

(2017) Simon Dellicour et al.   PLoS One

Global urban signatures of phenotypic change in animal and plant populations

(2017) Marina Alberti et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Morphological traits are linked to the cold performance and distribution of bees along elevational gradients

(2016) Marcell K. Peters et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Intraspecific body size increases with habitat fragmentation in wild bee pollinators

(2016) Daniela Warzecha et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Macronutrient ratios in pollen shape bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) foraging strategies and floral preferences

(2016) Anthony D. Vaudo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Constant fluctuating asymmetry but not directional asymmetry along the geographic distribution of Drosophila antonietae (Diptera, Drosophilidae)

(2015) Marcelo Costa et al.   REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ENTOMOLOGIA

Analyzing Fluctuating Asymmetry with Geometric Morphometrics: Concepts, Methods, and Applications

(2015) Christian Klingenberg   Symmetry-Basel

Bee nutrition and floral resource restoration

(2015) Anthony D Vaudo et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Does Urbanization Promote Floral Diversification? Implications from Changes in Herkogamy with Pollinator Availability in an Urban-Rural Area

(2014) Atushi Ushimaru et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Effects of vegetation, urban density, building height, and atmospheric conditions on local temperatures and thermal comfort

(2014) Katia Perini et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Measuring habitat fragmentation: An evaluation of landscape pattern metrics

(2014) Xianli Wang et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Using land use change trajectories to quantify the effects of urbanization on urban heat island

(2013) Huihui Feng et al.   ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH

An overview of theBombus terrestris(L. 1758) subspecies (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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

The use of fluctuating asymmetry as a measure of environmentally induced developmental instability: A meta-analysis

(2013) De Anna E. Beasley et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Nutrition affects survival in African honeybees exposed to interacting stressors

(2013) C. Ruth Archer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Subtle direct effects of rising atmospheric CO2on insect eggs

(2013) EMILY D. KERR et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Assessing declines of North American bumble bees (Bombus spp.) using museum specimens

(2012) Sheila R. Colla et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The effects of latitude, body size, and sexual selection on wing shape in a damselfly

(2011) DAVID OUTOMURO et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Wild bees along an urban gradient: winners and losers

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

Bombus terrestris, pollinator, invasive and pest: An assessment of problems associated with its widespread introductions for commercial purposes

(2010) Amots Dafni et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Ontogeny of worker body size distribution in bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) colonies

(2010) MARGARET J. COUVILLON et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Small worker bumble bees (Bombus impatiens) are hardier against starvation than their larger sisters

(2010) M. J. Couvillon et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

MorphoJ: an integrated software package for geometric morphometrics

(2010) CHRISTIAN PETER KLINGENBERG   Molecular Ecology Resources

Factors affecting offspring body size in the solitary beeOsmia bicornis(Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)

(2009) Sabine Radmacher et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Body temperature and body size affect flight performance in a damselfly

(2009) Yuka Samejima et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Body size variation in insects: a macroecological perspective

(2009) Steven L. Chown et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Location, location, location: larvae position inside the nest is correlated with adult body size in worker bumble-bees (Bombus impatiens)

(2009) M. J. Couvillon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The town Crepis and the country Crepis: How does fragmentation affect a plant–pollinator interaction?

(2008) Emilie Andrieu et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY