Functional traits of wild bees in response to urbanization

The effect of urbanisation and seasonality on wild bee abundance, body size and foraging efforts

(2023) Sandara N. R. Brasil et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Urban landscapes affect wild bee maternal investment and body size

(2023) Sandara N. R. Brasil et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

How city traits affect taxonomic and functional diversity of urban wild bee communities: insights from a worldwide analysis

(2022) Andrea Ferrari et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Supporting Bees in Cities: How Bees Are Influenced by Local and Landscape Features

(2021) Anthony C. Ayers et al.   Insects

Diversity and composition of pollen loads carried by pollinators are primarily driven by insect traits, not floral community characteristics

(2021) Nevin Cullen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional traits and nesting habitats distinguish the structure of bee communities in clearcut and managed hardwood & pine forests in Southeastern USA

(2021) Christine Cairns Fortuin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

(2020) Panagiotis Theodorou et al.   Nature Communications

Bee community response to local and landscape factors along an urban-rural gradient

(2020) Kristen R. Birdshire 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

Foraging distances in six species of solitary bees with body lengths of 6 to 15 mm, inferred from individual tagging, suggest 150 m-rule-of-thumb for flower strip distances

(2020) Michaela M. Hofmann et al.   JOURNAL OF HYMENOPTERA RESEARCH

Reap what you sow: local plant composition mediates bumblebee foraging patterns within urban garden landscapes

(2020) Megan O’Connell et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

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

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

The effects of urbanization on bee communities depends on floral resource availability and bee functional traits

(2019) Caleb J. Wilson et al.   PLoS One

City dwelling wild bees: how communal gardens promote species richness

(2019) Julia Lanner et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

City parks vs. natural areas - is it possible to preserve a natural level of bee richness and abundance in a city park?

(2018) Weronika Banaszak-Cibicka et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Wild bee abundance declines with urban warming, regardless of floral density

(2018) April L. Hamblin et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Impervious surface area is a key predictor for urban plant diversity in a city undergone rapid urbanization

(2018) Zhaogui Yan et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Intermediate disturbance and patterns of species richness

(2017) Jacob Bendix et al.   PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Taxonomic and functional trait diversity of wild bees in different urban settings

(2017) Étienne Normandin et al.   PeerJ

Maternal manipulation of pollen provisions affects worker production in a small carpenter bee

(2016) Sarah P. Lawson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Intraspecific body size increases with habitat fragmentation in wild bee pollinators

(2016) Daniela Warzecha et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

(2016) Simon G. Potts et al.   NATURE

The proportion of impervious surfaces at the landscape scale structures wild bee assemblages in a densely populated region

(2016) Benoît Geslin et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

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

Contrasting patterns in species and functional-trait diversity of bees in an agricultural landscape

(2015) Jessica R. K. Forrest et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Predicting Urban Growth of the Greater Toronto Area - Coupling a Markov Cellular Automata with Document Meta-Analysis

(2015) E. Vaz et al.   Journal of Environmental Informatics

Bumblebees in the city: abundance, species richness and diversity in two urban habitats

(2014) Bengt Gunnarsson et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

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 fourth-corner solution - using predictive models to understand how species traits interact with the environment

(2014) Alexandra M. Brown et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Citizen Science: linking the recent rapid advances of plant flowering in Canada with climate variability

(2013) Alemu Gonsamo et al.   Scientific Reports

Specialization on traits as basis for the niche-breadth of flower visitors and as structuring mechanism of ecological networks

(2012) Robert R. Junker et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

mvabund- anRpackage for model-based analysis of multivariate abundance data

(2012) Yi Wang et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The effects of landscape fragmentation on pollination dynamics: absence of evidence not evidence of absence

(2011) Adam S. Hadley et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

What causes wing wear in foraging bumble bees?

(2011) D. J. Foster et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Wild bees along an urban gradient: winners and losers

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

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

Nesting biology and subsociality in Ceratina calcarata (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2010) Sandra M. Rehan et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Long foraging distances impose high costs on offspring production in solitary bees

(2010) Antonia Zurbuchen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

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

Native bees are a rich natural resource in urban California gardens

(2009) Gordon W. Frankie et al.   CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE

A meta-analysis of impacts of alien vs. native plants on pollinator visitation and reproductive success of co-flowering native plants

(2009) Carolina Laura Morales et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

TESTING THE SPECIES TRAITS–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS: THE FOURTH-CORNER PROBLEM REVISITED

(2008) Stéphane Dray et al.   ECOLOGY

Taxonomical vs. functional responses of bee communities to fire in two contrasting climatic regions

(2008) Marco Moretti et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The use of gradient analysis studies in advancing our understanding of the ecology of urbanizing landscapes: current status and future directions

(2008) Mark J. McDonnell et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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

(2008) Michael L. McKinney   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS