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A Global Synthesis of Jatropha Cultivation: Insights into Land Use Change and Management Practices.

scientific article

A clue on bee glue: New insight into the sources and factors driving resin intake in honeybees (Apis mellifera)

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

A comparison of the strength of biodiversity effects across multiple functions

scientific article

A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems

scientific article published on 11 March 2013

A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes

scientific article

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

A novel bioenergy feedstock in Latin America? Cultivation potential of Acrocomia aculeata under current and future climate conditions

scientific article published in August 2016

A novel method to measure hairiness in bees and other insect pollinators

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

A unique nest-protection strategy in a new species of spider wasp

scientific article published in 2014

Abandonement of coffee agroforests increases insect abundance and diversity

article by Anne Richter et al published 28 January 2007 in Agroforestry Systems

Abandoning grassland management negatively influences plant but not bird or insect biodiversity in Europe

scientific article published on 16 August 2023

Advances in pollination ecology from tropical plantation crops

scientific article published on April 2008

Agro-ecosystem services and dis-services in almond orchards are differentially influenced by the surrounding landscape

scientific article published on 25 August 2015

Ant community structure during forest succession in a subtropical forest in South-East China

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Ant seed predation, pesticide applications and farmers' income from tropical multi-cropping gardens

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

Ants at Plant Wounds: A Little-Known Trophic Interaction with Evolutionary Implications for Ant-Plant Interactions

scientific article

Artisanal mining impacts small mammals while chainsaw milling is a more sustainable practice in Ghana

scientific article published on 2 December 2020

Bat pest control contributes to food security in Thailand

scientific article published in March 2014

Bee pollination and fruit set of Coffea arabica and C. canephora (Rubiaceae) ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2003

Belowground top-down and aboveground bottom-up effects structure multitrophic community relationships in a biodiverse forest

scientific article

Benchmarking nesting aids for cavity-nesting bees and wasps

scientific article published on 19 September 2019

Beyond biomass: Soil feedbacks are transient over plant life stages and alter fitness

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Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Biodiversity and the stability of ecosystem functioning

Biodiversity buffers pollination from changes in environmental conditions

scientific article

Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed

scientific article

Biodiversity patterns and trophic interactions in human-dominated tropical landscapes in Sulawesi (Indonesia): plants, arthropods and vertebrates

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Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research in Chinese subtropical forests

scientific article published in 2017

Biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships depend on identity and number of measured functions

scientific article published in 2017

Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

scientific article

Carbon–biodiversity relationships in a highly diverse subtropical forest

scientific article published on 3 April 2023

Caveats to quantifying ecosystem services: fruit abortion blurs benefits from crop pollination

scientific article

Chronic dryness and wetness and especially pulsed drought threaten a generalist arthropod herbivore

scientific article published on 11 September 2018

Climate-induced phenological shift of apple trees has diverse effects on pollinators, herbivores and natural enemies

article by Ádám Kőrösi et al published 2018 in PeerJ

Competition between honey bees and wild bees and the role of nesting resources in a nature reserve

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Configurational landscape heterogeneity shapes functional community composition of grassland butterflies

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Contrasting responses of bee communities to coffee flowering at different spatial scales

scientific article published in March 2006

Contribution of pollinator-mediated crops to nutrients in the human food supply

scientific article published in 2011

Corrigendum: Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

scientific article published on 18 February 2016

Crop pollination services at the landscape scale

scientific article

Crop rotation and agri-environment schemes determine bumblebee communities via flower resources

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

scientific article

Design and Planning of a Transdisciplinary Investigation into Farmland Pollinators: Rationale, Co-Design, and Lessons Learned

Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

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Developing European conservation and mitigation tools for pollination services: approaches of the STEP (Status and Trends of European Pollinators) project

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Diversity and specificity of host-natural enemy interactions in an urban-rural interface

scientific article published in 2016

Diversity, ecosystem function, and stability of parasitoid-host interactions across a tropical habitat gradient

scientific article

Do wild bees complement honeybee pollination of confection sunflowers in Israel?

scientific article published on 10 October 2013

EDITOR'S CHOICE: REVIEW: Trait matching of flower visitors and crops predicts fruit set better than trait diversity

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Early succession arthropod community changes on experimental passion fruit plant patches along a land-use gradient in Ecuador

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Economic gain, stability of pollination and bee diversity decrease from southern to northern Europe

scientific article published in 2013

Economic trade-offs between carbon sequestration, timber production, and crop pollination in tropical forested landscapes

scientific article published in September 2010

Effectiveness of agri-environmental management on pollinators is moderated more by ecological contrast than by landscape structure or land-use intensity

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Effects of Land-Use Intensity in Tropical Agroforestry Systems on Coffee Flower-Visiting and Trap-Nesting Bees and Wasps

article by Alexandra-Maria Klein et al published August 2002 in Conservation Biology

Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity

scientific article published in 2016

Effects of habitat area, isolation, and landscape diversity on plant species richness of calcareous grasslands

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Elementary School Children Contribute to Environmental Research as Citizen Scientists

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

Environmentally mediated coffee pest densities in relation to agroforestry management, using hierarchical partitioning analyses

scientific article published in May 2008

Evaluating the effectiveness of retention forestry to enhance biodiversity in production forests of Central Europe using an interdisciplinary, multi-scale approach

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Exotic garden plants partly substitute for native plants as resources for pollinators when native plants become seasonally scarce

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

First mass development of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)-its surveillance and control in Germany

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

Floral larceny by the stingless bee <i>Trigona amalthea</i> on granadilla (<i>Passiflora ligularis</i> Juss)

scientific article published on 07 October 2018

Foraging trip duration and density of megachilid bees, eumenid wasps and pompilid wasps in tropical agroforestry systems

scientific article published in 2004

Forest structure and heterogeneity increase diversity and alter composition of host–parasitoid networks

scientific article published in 2024

Forest-edge associated bees benefit from the proportion of tropical forest regardless of its edge length

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

From research to action: enhancing crop yield through wild pollinators

article by Lucas A Garibaldi et al published October 2014 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

From the laboratory to the field: contrasting effects of multi-trophic interactions and agroforestry management on coffee pest densities

scientific article published in May 2009

Fruit set of highland coffee increases with the diversity of pollinating bees

scientific article published in May 2003

Functional complementarity and specialisation: The role of biodiversity in plant–pollinator interactions

scientific article published on 10 December 2010

Functional flower traits and their diversity drive pollinator visitation

scientific article published on 29 November 2016

Geographical range size of tropical plants influences their response to anthropogenic activities

scientific article published on 18 October 2007

Global growth and stability of agricultural yield decrease with pollinator dependence ⬇️

scientific article published on March 21, 2011

Global malnutrition overlaps with pollinator-dependent micronutrient production ⬇️

scientific article published in November 2014

Grassland management intensification weakens the associations among the diversities of multiple plant and animal taxa

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Habitat management on multiple spatial scales can enhance bee pollination and crop yield in tropical homegardens

scientific article published in May 2016

Herbivore and pollinator responses to grassland management intensity along experimental changes in plant species richness

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High trees increase sunflower seed predation by birds in an agricultural landscape of Israel

scholarly article by Jessica Schäckermann et al published 16 July 2014 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

How does plant richness affect pollinator richness and temporal stability of flower visits?

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How much does agriculture depend on pollinators? Lessons from long-term trends in crop production

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Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment

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Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment

scientific article published in Science

Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops

scientific article published in February 2007

Inadequate assessment of the ecosystem service rationale for conservation: reply to Ghazoul

scientific article published in June 2008

Insect abundance in managed forests benefits from multi-layered vegetation

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Insect decline and its drivers: Unsupported conclusions in a poorly performed meta-analysis on trends—A critique of Sánchez-Bayo and Wyckhuys (2019)

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

Inside Honeybee Hives: Impact of Natural Propolis on the Ectoparasitic Mite Varroa destructor and Viruses.

scientific article published on 06 February 2017

Insights into Jatropha Projects Worldwide - Key Facts & Figures from a Global Survey

Integrating agroecological production in a robust post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Inter-Individual Nectar Chemistry Changes of Field Scabious, Knautia arvensis

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Interacting effects of pollination, water and nutrients on fruit tree performance

scientific article published on 14 April 2014

Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity

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International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Intra- and interspecific tree diversity promotes multitrophic plant–Hemiptera–ant interactions in a forest diversity experiment

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Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

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Landscape context and management effects on an important insect pest and its natural enemies in almond

scientific article published in December 2009

Landscape effects on crop pollination services: are there general patterns?

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Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses

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Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity – ecosystem service management

scholarly article by Teja Tscharntke et al published August 2005 in Ecology Letters

Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

Linking deforestation scenarios to pollination services and economic returns in coffee agroforestry systems.

scientific article

Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published in May 2016

Long-term global trends in crop yield and production reveal no current pollination shortage but increasing pollinator dependency

scientific article published on October 2008

Long-term monitoring reveals topographical features and vegetation explain winter habitat use of an Arctic rodent

scientific article published on 26 January 2021

Long-term monitoring reveals topographical features and vegetation that explain winter habitat use of an Arctic rodent

scientific article published on 30 August 2021

Machine learning algorithms to infer trait‐matching and predict species interactions in ecological networks

scientific article published in 2019

Management trade-offs on ecosystem services in apple orchards across Europe: Direct and indirect effects of organic production

scholarly article by Ulrika Samnegård et al published 12 November 2018 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Management‐dependent effects of pollinator functional diversity on apple pollination services: A response–effect trait approach

scientific article published on 08 September 2021

Mapping change in biodiversity and ecosystem function research: food webs foster integration of experiments and science policy

scientific article published in 2019

Monitoring bee health in European agro-ecosystems using wing morphology and fat bodies

scientific article

Multi-trophic communities re-establish with canopy cover and microclimate in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment

scientific article published in May 2021

Multi-trophic guilds respond differently to changing elevation in a subtropical forest

scientific article published in 2017

Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems

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Multitrophic diversity in a biodiverse forest is highly nonlinear across spatial scales

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Multitrophic effects of experimental changes in plant diversity on cavity-nesting bees, wasps, and their parasitoids

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Natural enemy diversity reduces temporal variability in wasp but not bee parasitism

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Natural habitat does not mediate vertebrate seed predation as an ecosystem dis-service to agriculture

scientific article published in 2015

Nearby rainforest promotes coffee pollination by increasing spatio-temporal stability in bee species richness

scientific article published on 11 June 2009

Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

scientific article

Observational natural history and morphological taxonomy are indispensable for future challenges in biodiversity and conservation

scientific article published in January 2015

Opportunities to reduce pollination deficits and address production shortfalls in an important insect‐pollinated crop

scientific article published on 19 October 2021

Organic farming promotes bee abundance in vineyards in Italy but not in South Africa

scientific article published in December 2017

Overlooked jewels: Existing habitat patches complement sown flower strips to conserve pollinators

scientific article published on 29 July 2021

Pennycress double-cropping does not negatively impact spider diversity

scientific article published on 30 December 2014

Pennycress-corn double-cropping increases ground beetle diversity

scientific article published in June 2015

Pesticide use negatively affects bumble bees across European landscapes

scientific article published on 29 November 2023

Plant density can increase invertebrate postdispersal seed predation in an experimental grassland community

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Plant diversity and composition compensate for negative effects of urbanization on foraging bumble bees

scientific article published on 14 April 2015

Plant diversity effects on pollinating and herbivorous insects can be linked to plant stoichiometry

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Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity

scientific article published on 29 August 2024

Plant diversity increases spatio-temporal niche complementarity in plant-pollinator interactions

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Plant–flower visitor interaction webs: Temporal stability and pollinator specialization increases along an experimental plant diversity gradient

scientific article published in June 2011

Plant–pollinator interactions in changing environments

scientific article published in June 2011

Pollination Requirements of Almond (Prunus dulcis): Combining Laboratory and Field Experiments

scientific article published on 8 March 2018

Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change

scientific article published on April 2007

Pollination and plant resources change the nutritional quality of almonds for human health

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Pollination mitigates cucumber yield gaps more than pesticide and fertilizer use in tropical smallholder gardens

scientific article published on 20 November 2014

Pollination of Granadilla (Passiflora ligularis) Benefits From Large Wild Insects

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Pollination of two oil-producing plant species: Camelina ( Camelina sativa L. Crantz) and pennycress ( Thlaspi arvense L.) double-cropping in Germany

scientific article published on 13 December 2013

Pollination supply models from a local to global scale

scientific article published in 2023

Pollinator enhancement in agriculture: comparing sown flower strips, hedges and sown hedge herb layers in apple orchards

scientific article published on 09 December 2021

Pollinator shortage and global crop yield: Looking at the whole spectrum of pollinator dependency

scientific article published on January 2009

PoshBee: Pan-European Assessment, Monitoring, and Mitigation of Stressors on the Health of Bees

scientific article published on 17 August 2021

Post-dispersal seed predation of three grassland species in a plant diversity experiment

scientific article published in 2013

Predatory arthropods in apple orchards across Europe: Responses to agricultural management, adjacent habitat, landscape composition and country

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Predicting the effect of habitat modification on networks of interacting species

scientific article published on 6 October 2017

Rain forest promotes trophic interactions and diversity of trap-nesting Hymenoptera in adjacent agroforestry

scientific article published in March 2006

Red mason bees cannot compete with honey bees for floral resources in a cage experiment

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Relevance of wild and managed bees for human well-being

scientific article published on 08 February 2018

Reprint of: Tree diversity promotes predatory wasps and parasitoids but not pollinator bees in a subtropical experimental forest

scientific article published on 15 July 2021

Resource Heterogeneity Moderates the Biodiversity-Function Relationship in Real World Ecosystems.

scientific article published on 20 May 2008

SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIATION IN THE DIVERSITY OF HYMENOPTERA ACROSS A TROPICAL HABITAT GRADIENT

scholarly article by Jason M. Tylianakis et al published December 2005 in Ecology

Seasonal contrasts in the response of coffee ants to agroforestry shade-tree management.

scientific article

Slug activity density increases seed predation independently of an urban–rural gradient

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Social bees are fitter in more biodiverse environments

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Spatial scale affects seed predation and dispersal in contrasting anthropogenic landscapes

scientific article published in 2015

Spatial scale of observation affects alpha, beta and gamma diversity of cavity-nesting bees and wasps across a tropical land-use gradient

Specialization of mutualistic interaction networks decreases toward tropical latitudes

scientific article

Spillover of functionally important organisms between managed and natural habitats

Spillover of trap-nesting bees and wasps in an urban–rural interface

Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits

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Strong positive biodiversity-productivity relationships in a subtropical forest experiment

Synergistic effects of non-Apis bees and honey bees for pollination services

scientific article published on 8 January 2013

The Ecosystem Service Controversy: Is There Sufficient Evidence for a “Pollination Paradox”?

scientific article published in March 2008

The contribution of non-managed social bees to coffee production: new economic insights based on farm-scale yield data

scientific article published on 2 March 2008

The value of biotic pollination and dense forest for fruit set of Arabica coffee: A global assessment

scientific article published on 02 October 2021

Toward a methodical framework for comprehensively assessing forest multifunctionality

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

Traits of butterfly communities change from specialist to generalist characteristics with increasing land-use intensity

article by Carmen Börschig et al published November 2013 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Transferring biodiversity-ecosystem function research to the management of ‘real-world’ ecosystems

scientific article published in 2019

Trap nests for bees and wasps to analyse trophic interactions in changing environments-A systematic overview and user guide

scientific article published in 2018

Tree diversity alters the structure of a tri-trophic network in a biodiversity experiment

scientific article published in 2014

Tree diversity and nectar composition affect arthropod visitors on extrafloral nectaries in a diversity experiment

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Tree diversity increases robustness of multi-trophic interactions

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

Tree diversity promotes predator but not omnivore ants in a subtropical Chinese forest

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Tree diversity promotes predatory wasps and parasitoids but not pollinator bees in a subtropical experimental forest

scientific article published on 15 March 2021

Tree genetic diversity increases arthropod diversity in willow short rotation coppice

Tree phylogenetic diversity promotes host-parasitoid interactions

scientific article published in July 2016

Tree phylogenetic diversity structures multitrophic communities

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Tree recovery and seed dispersal by birds: Comparing forest, agroforestry and abandoned agroforestry in coastal Ecuador

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Tree species richness attenuates the positive relationship between mutualistic ant-hemipteran interactions and leaf chewer herbivory

scientific article

Urban gardens promote bee foraging over natural habitats and plantations.

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Using ecological and field survey data to establish a national list of the wild bee pollinators of crops

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Variation in nectar quality across 34 grassland plant species

scientific article published on 09 October 2021

Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

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Wild bees benefit from structural complexity enhancement in a forest restoration experiment

scientific article published on 05 June 2021

Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities

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Wild pollination services to California almond rely on semi-natural habitat

scientific article published in April 2012

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