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View article: Examining Honeybee (<i>Apis mellifera</i>) Dominance Patterns Within Urban Bee Communities Worldwide
Examining Honeybee (<i>Apis mellifera</i>) Dominance Patterns Within Urban Bee Communities Worldwide Open
Urban ecosystems can host diverse bee communities. However, the increasing prevalence of urban honeybees ( Apis mellifera Linnaeus 1758) raises concerns about their ecological impact. Using a systematic review of published studies, we obta…
View article: Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age
Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age Open
With biodiversity loss escalating globally, a step change is needed in our capacity to accurately monitor species populations across ecosystems. Robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) offer technological solutions that may substantially adva…
View article: Plant Functional Traits and Vegetation Structure Explain Pollination Networks at Scale
Plant Functional Traits and Vegetation Structure Explain Pollination Networks at Scale Open
View article: Plant functional traits and vegetation structure explain pollination networks at scale
Plant functional traits and vegetation structure explain pollination networks at scale Open
Plant-pollinator interactions are critical to terrestrial ecosystem functioning and global food production but are experiencing increasing pressures from land use and global environmental changes. Plant functional traits and vegetation str…
View article: Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide
Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide Open
Cities can host significant biological diversity. Yet, urbanisation leads to the loss of habitats, species, and functional groups. Understanding how multiple taxa respond to urbanisation globally is essential to promote and conserve biodiv…
View article: Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial taxa worldwide
Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial taxa worldwide Open
Cities can host significant biological diversity. Yet, urbanisation leads to the loss of habitats and, potentially, to local extinctions. Understanding how multiple taxa respond to urbanisation globally is essential to promote and conserve…
View article: Datasets: Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide
Datasets: Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide Open
This repository contains the datasets used in the main article: There is one Excel file per taxonomic group (amphibians, bats, bees, birds, ground beetles, and reptiles). Each file consists of three Excel spreadsheets: "Species" = matrix o…
View article: Datasets: Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide
Datasets: Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide Open
This repository contains the datasets used in the main article: There is one Excel file per taxonomic group (amphibians, bats, bees, birds, ground beetles, and reptiles). Each file consists of three Excel spreadsheets: "Species" = matrix o…
View article: A dataset of nectar sugar production for flowering plants found in urban green spaces
A dataset of nectar sugar production for flowering plants found in urban green spaces Open
Nectar and pollen are floral resources that provide food for insect pollinators, so quantifying their supplies can help us to understand and mitigate pollinator declines. However, most existing datasets of floral resource measurements focu…
View article: Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020
Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020 Open
During the main COVID-19 global pandemic lockdown period of 2020 an impromptu set of pollination ecologists came together via social media and personal contacts to carry out standardised surveys of the flower visits and plants in gardens. …
View article: Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020
Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020 Open
During the main COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period of 2020 an impromptu set of pollination ecologists came together via social media and personal contacts to carry out standardised surveys of the flower visits and plants in their gardens. T…
View article: Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020
Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020 Open
During the main COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period of 2020 an impromptu set of pollination ecologists came together via social media and personal contacts to carry out standardised surveys of the flower visits and plants in their gardens. T…
View article: Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020
Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020 Open
During the main COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period of 2020 an impromptu set of pollination ecologists came together via social media and personal contacts to carry out standardised surveys of the flower visits and plants in their gardens. T…
View article: Turnover in floral composition explains species diversity and temporal stability in the nectar supply of urban residential gardens
Turnover in floral composition explains species diversity and temporal stability in the nectar supply of urban residential gardens Open
Residential gardens are a valuable habitat for insect pollinators worldwide, but differences in individual gardening practices substantially affect their floral composition. It is important to understand how the floral resource supply of g…
View article: Does agri-environment scheme participation in England increase pollinator populations and crop pollination services?
Does agri-environment scheme participation in England increase pollinator populations and crop pollination services? Open
View article: Field boundary features can stabilise bee populations and the pollination of mass‐flowering crops in rotational systems
Field boundary features can stabilise bee populations and the pollination of mass‐flowering crops in rotational systems Open
Pollinators experience large spatiotemporal fluctuations in resource availability when mass‐flowering crops are rotated with resource‐poor cereal crops. Yet, few studies have considered the effect this has on pollinator population stabilit…
View article: Large herbivores transform plant-pollinator networks in an African savanna
Large herbivores transform plant-pollinator networks in an African savanna Open
View article: Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes
Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes Open
Floral resources (nectar and pollen) provide food for insect pollinators but have declined in the countryside due to land use change. Given widespread pollinator loss, it is important that we quantify their food supply to help develop cons…
View article: Author Correction: Pollinator importance networks illustrate the crucial value of bees in a highly speciose plant community
Author Correction: Pollinator importance networks illustrate the crucial value of bees in a highly speciose plant community Open
View article: Author response for "Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes"
Author response for "Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes" Open
View article: Reliably predicting pollinator abundance: Challenges of calibrating process‐based ecological models
Reliably predicting pollinator abundance: Challenges of calibrating process‐based ecological models Open
Pollination is a key ecosystem service for global agriculture but evidence of pollinator population declines is growing. Reliable spatial modelling of pollinator abundance is essential if we are to identify areas at risk of pollination ser…
View article: Why allotments offer urban oases for bees and butterflies
Why allotments offer urban oases for bees and butterflies Open
View article: Opportunities and threats for pollinator conservation in global towns and cities
Opportunities and threats for pollinator conservation in global towns and cities Open
View article: Pollinator size and its consequences: Robust estimates of body size in pollinating insects
Pollinator size and its consequences: Robust estimates of body size in pollinating insects Open
Body size is an integral functional trait that underlies pollination‐related ecological processes, yet it is often impractical to measure directly. Allometric scaling laws have been used to overcome this problem. However, most existing mod…
View article: A systems approach reveals urban pollinator hotspots and conservation opportunities
A systems approach reveals urban pollinator hotspots and conservation opportunities Open
View article: The busy life of urban bees: a conservation opportunity
The busy life of urban bees: a conservation opportunity Open
View article: Assessment of the response of pollinator abundance to environmental pressures using structured expert elicitation
Assessment of the response of pollinator abundance to environmental pressures using structured expert elicitation Open
Policy-makers often need to rely on experts with disparate fields of expertise when making policy choices in complex, multi-faceted, dynamic environments such as those dealing with ecosystem services. For policy-makers wishing to make evid…
View article: Pollinator size and its consequences: Predictive allometry for pollinating insects
Pollinator size and its consequences: Predictive allometry for pollinating insects Open
Body size is an integral functional trait that underlies pollination-related ecological processes, yet it is often impractical to measure directly. Allometric scaling laws have been used to overcome this problem. However, most existing mod…
View article: “Pollinator size and its consequences” - Predictive allometry for pollinating insects: An R package
“Pollinator size and its consequences” - Predictive allometry for pollinating insects: An R package Open
Allometric scaling laws have key implications for the conservation and management of pollinating insects in both managed and unmanaged ecosystems. Body size (BS) can predict influential traits such as foraging distance (FD) yet available p…
View article: Differences in pollination syndromes and the frequency of autonomous delayed selfing between co-flowering <i>Hibiscus aponeurus</i> (Sprague and Hutch) and <i>H. flavifolius</i> (Ulbr) from Kenya
Differences in pollination syndromes and the frequency of autonomous delayed selfing between co-flowering <i>Hibiscus aponeurus</i> (Sprague and Hutch) and <i>H. flavifolius</i> (Ulbr) from Kenya Open
Delayed autonomous selfing offers a mechanism for seed production when pollination levels are low or unpredictable. At Mpala Research Centre (MRC) in Kenya, we examined the relationships between floral attraction, insect visitation, and de…