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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

Above- and belowground insect herbivores mediate the impact of nitrogen eutrophication on the soil food web in a grassland ecosystem

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

Above- and belowground insect herbivory modifies the response of a grassland plant community to nitrogen eutrophication

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

Aboveground insect herbivory increases plant competitive asymmetry, while belowground herbivory mitigates the effect

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Agricultural diversification promotes multiple ecosystem services without compromising yield

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Agricultural intensification and biodiversity partitioning in European landscapes comparing plants, carabids, and birds

scientific article

Agricultural landscape simplification reduces natural pest control: A quantitative synthesis

article

Agricultural policies exacerbate honeybee pollination service supply-demand mismatches across Europe

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

Alien plants associate with widespread generalist arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal taxa: evidence from a continental-scale study using massively parallel 454 sequencing

article

Allometric density responses in butterflies: the response to small and large patches by small and large species

article

Annual flower strips support pollinators and potentially enhance red clover seed yield

scientific article published on 16 July 2018

Aphids and their natural enemies are differently affected by habitat features at local and landscape scales

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

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Bees increase seed set of wild plants while the proportion of arable land has a variable effect on pollination in European agricultural landscapes

scientific article published on 23 November 2021

Below-ground herbivory mitigates biomass loss from above-ground herbivory of nitrogen fertilized plants

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Beta-diversity patterns elucidate mechanisms of alien plant invasion in mountains

article

Beyond body size—new traits for new heights in trait-based modelling of predator-prey dynamics

scientific article published in 2022

Bumblebee queen mortality along roads increase with traffic

Cereal aphid populations in non-crop habitats show strong density dependence

article published in 2007

Clothianidin seed-treatment has no detectable negative impact on honeybee colonies and their pathogens

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Combined effects of agrochemicals and ecosystem services on crop yield across Europe.

scientific article

Combined effects of global change pressures on animal-mediated pollination

scientific article

Communities in infrastructure habitats are species rich but only partly support species associated with semi‐natural grasslands

scientific article published in 2023

Competition between managed honeybees and wild bumblebees depends on landscape context

article

Conservation Biological Control in Agricultural Landscapes

scientific article published in 2017

Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape scale

Contrasting effects of habitat area and connectivity on evenness of pollinator communities

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Contribution of insect pollinators to crop yield and quality varies with agricultural intensification

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 18 February 2016

Crop diversity benefits carabid and pollinator communities in landscapes with semi‐natural habitats

scientific article published in 2020

Crop management affects pollinator attractiveness and visitation in oilseed rape

scientific article published in 2018

Crop management modifies the benefits of insect pollination in oilseed rape

article

Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Crop rotations sustain cereal yields under a changing climate

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

CropPol : A dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination

scientific article published on 17 February 2022

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

scientific article

Density of insect-pollinated grassland plants decreases with increasing surrounding land-use intensity.

scientific article published on 16 July 2014

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

article

Disentangling effects of habitat diversity and area on orthopteran species with contrasting mobility

article

Dispersal capacity and diet breadth modify the response of wild bees to habitat loss

scientific article published on 10 March 2010

Diverse cropping systems enhanced yield but did not improve yield stability in a 52-year long experiment

Drastic historic shifts in bumble-bee community composition in Sweden

scientific article published on 15 June 2011

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

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Early‐season mass‐flowering crop cover dilutes wild bee abundance and species richness in temperate regions: A quantitative synthesis

scientific article published in 2023

Ecological Intensification: Bridging the Gap between Science and Practice

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

Ecological intensification: harnessing ecosystem services for food security ⬇️

scientific article published on November 12, 2012

Ecological production functions for biological control services in agricultural landscapes

article

Ecosystem function in predator-prey food webs-confronting dynamic models with empirical data

scholarly article by Alva Curtsdotter et al published 5 August 2018 in Journal of Animal Ecology

Effect of habitat area and isolation on plant trait distribution in European forests and grasslands

article

Effect of insect herbivory on plant community dynamics under contrasting water availability levels

article

Enhancing Soil Organic Matter as a Route to the Ecological Intensification of European Arable Systems

Erratum to “Persistent negative effects of pesticides on biodiversity and biological control potential on European farmland” [Basic Appl. Ecol. 11 (2010) 97–105]

scholarly article published in Basic and Applied Ecology

Establishment of a cross-European field site network in the ALARM project for assessing large-scale changes in biodiversity

scientific article

Experimental evidence that honeybees depress wild insect densities in a flowering crop

scientific article published in November 2016

Exploiting ecosystem services in agriculture for increased food security

scholarly article by Riccardo Bommarco et al published June 2018 in Global food security

Extinction debt for plants and flower-visiting insects in landscapes with contrasting land use history

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Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation

scientific article

Farm performance and input self-sufficiency increases with functional crop diversity on Swedish farms

scientific article published in 2022

Field-level clothianidin exposure affects bumblebees but generally not their pathogens

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Flow and stability of natural pest control services depend on complexity and crop rotation at the landscape scale

article published in 2013

Food webs coupled in space: Consumer foraging movement affects both stocks and fluxes

scientific article published in 2023

From theory to experimental design-Quantifying a trait-based theory of predator-prey dynamics.

scientific article

Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices

scientific article published in February 2015

Genetic and phenotypic differences between thistle populations in response to habitat and weed management practices

article

Habitat fragmentation causes immediate and time-delayed biodiversity loss at different trophic levels

scientific article

High mobility reduces beta-diversity among orthopteran communities - implications for conservation

article

Historical change and drivers of insect pest abundances in red clover seed production

article by Ola Lundin et al published October 2016 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

How Agricultural Intensification Affects Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

scholarly article by M. Emmerson et al published 2016 in Advances in Ecological Research

How spatial scale shapes the generation and management of multiple ecosystem services

scholarly article by Regina Lindborg et al published April 2017 in Ecosphere

Impacts of a pesticide on pollinator species richness at different spatial scales

article

Influence of crop edges on movement of generalist predators: a diffusion approach

article

Influence of habitat type and surrounding landscape on spider diversity in Swedish agroecosystems

article

Insect pollination enhances seed yield, quality, and market value in oilseed rape

scientific article

Insecticide resistance in pollen beetles over 7 years - a landscape approach

scientific article

Insecticides suppress natural enemies and increase pest damage in cabbage

scientific article

Integrated Crop Pollination: Combining strategies to ensure stable and sustainable yields of pollination-dependent crops

scientific article published in 2017

Interactive effects of pests increase seed yield

scientific article published on 29 February 2016

International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Landscape complexity is not a major trigger of species richness and food web structure of European cereal aphid parasitoids

Landscape composition influences farm management effects on farmland birds in winter: A pan-European approach

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Landscape context and elevation affect pollinator communities in intensive apple orchards

article by Lorenzo Marini et al published December 2012 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Landscape context and habitat type as drivers of bee diversity in European annual crops

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Landscape crop diversity and semi-natural habitat affect crop pollinators, pollination benefit and yield

scientific article published in 2021

Landscape matrix modifies richness of plants and insects in grassland fragments

article

Landscape simplification weakens the association between terrestrial producer and consumer diversity in Europe ⬇️

scientific article

Land‐use intensity affects the potential for apparent competition within and between habitats

scientific article published in 2021

Large-scale pollination experiment demonstrates the importance of insect pollination in winter oilseed rape

scientific article published on 9 December 2015

Late-season mass-flowering red clover increases bumble bee queen and male densities

article by Maj Rundlöf et al published April 2014 in Biological Conservation

Legacy of landscape crop diversity enhances carabid beetle species richness and promotes granivores

scientific article published in 2022

Life-history traits predict species responses to habitat area and isolation: a cross-continental synthesis

scientific article

Linear infrastructure habitats increase landscape-scale diversity of plants but not of flower-visiting insects

scientific article published on 07 December 2020

Local and landscape-level floral resources explain effects of wildflower strips on wild bees across four European countries

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MEASURING BEE DIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN HABITATS AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS

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Management intensity at field and landscape levels affects the structure of generalist predator communities

scientific article

Mass-flowering crops dilute pollinator abundance in agricultural landscapes across Europe

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

Meta-analysis reveals that pollinator functional diversity and abundance enhance crop pollination and yield

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Mixed effects of organic farming and landscape complexity on farmland biodiversity and biological control potential across Europe

article

Mobility and resource use influence the occurrence of pollinating insects in restored seminatural grassland fragments

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Modeling bumble bee population dynamics with delay differential equations

scientific article published in 2017

Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: how climate change and alien species interact to affect pollination

scientific article

Neonicotinoid Insecticides and Their Impacts on Bees: A Systematic Review of Research Approaches and Identification of Knowledge Gaps

scientific article

Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

scientific article

Organic farming in isolated landscapes does not benefit flower-visiting insects and pollination

article

Organic fertilisation enhances generalist predators and suppresses aphid growth in the absence of specialist predators

scientific article published in 2021

Outbreak suppression by predators depends on spatial distribution of prey

scholarly article by Riccardo Bommarco et al published February 2007 in Ecological Modelling

PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR AN ALLOMETRIC FOOD WEB MODEL

Persistent negative effects of pesticides on biodiversity and biological control potential on European farmland

scientific article published in 2010

Pest management and yield in spring oilseed rape without neonicotinoid seed treatments

scientific article published in 2020

Phenology and prediction of pea aphid infestations on peas

Plant trait-mediated interactions between early and late herbivores on common figwort (Scrophularia nodosa) and effects on plant seed set

article

Plant-microbe interactions in response to grassland herbivory and nitrogen eutrophication

scientific article published in 2021

Plant-pollinator networks in semi-natural grasslands are resistant to the loss of pollinators during blooming of mass-flowering crops

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Pollen beetle mortality is increased by ground-dwelling generalist predators but not landscape complexity

Pollination contribution to crop yield is often context-dependent: A review of experimental evidence

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Pollinator foraging flexibility mediates rapid plant-pollinator network restoration in semi-natural grasslands

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

Pollinators, pests and soil properties interactively shape oilseed rape yield

article

Pollinators, pests and soil properties interactively shape oilseed rape yield

article published in 2014

Population response to resource separation in conservation biological control

article

Possible host-parasite adaptations in honey bees infested byVarroa destructormites

article

Predator body sizes and habitat preferences predict predation rates in an agroecosystem

article by Adrien Rusch et al published May 2015 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Predictive power of food web models based on body size decreases with trophic complexity

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

RAPID EVOLUTION OF AN INVASIVE PLANT

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Recovery of plant diversity in restored semi-natural pastures depends on adjacent land use

article

Relationships between multiple biodiversity components and ecosystem services along a landscape complexity gradient

scholarly article by Klaus Birkhofer et al published February 2018 in Biological Conservation

Reprint of “Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape scale” [Biol. Control 43 (2007) 294–309]

article published in 2008

Response of ground beetle (Coleoptera, Carabidae) communities to changes in agricultural policies in Sweden over two decades

article

Seed coating with a neonicotinoid insecticide negatively affects wild bees

scientific article

Soil compaction and insect pollination modify impacts of crop rotation on nitrogen fixation and yield

article by Audrey St-Martin & Riccardo Bommarco published November 2016 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Specialization of mutualistic interaction networks decreases toward tropical latitudes

scientific article

Species traits elucidate crop pest response to landscape composition: a global analysis

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Species’ traits influence ground beetle responses to farm and landscape level agricultural intensification in Europe

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

scientific article

Sustained functional composition of pollinators in restored pastures despite slow functional restoration of plants.

scientific article

Switch to ecological engineering would aid independence

scientific article published in December 2008

Ten policies for pollinators.

scientific article

The coordination of green–brown food webs and their disruption by anthropogenic nutrient inputs

scientific article published in 2022

The effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield: a quantitative synthesis

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

The effects of reduced tillage and earlier seeding on flea beetle ( Phyllotreta spp.) crop damage in spring oilseed rape ( Brassica napus L.)

article

The impact of an insecticide on insect flower visitation and pollination in an agricultural landscape

scholarly article by Claire Brittain et al published June 2010 in Agricultural and Forest Entomology

The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe

scientific article published on 07 April 2019

The landscape matrix modifies the effect of habitat fragmentation in grassland butterflies

article by Erik Öckinger et al published 23 November 2011 in Landscape Ecology

The potential for indirect effects between co-flowering plants via shared pollinators depends on resource abundance, accessibility and relatedness ⬇️

scientific article

The relationship between agricultural intensification and biological control: experimental tests across Europe

scientific article

Time will tell: resource continuity bolsters ecosystem services

scientific article published on 29 June 2015

Towards a modular theory of trophic interactions

scientific article published on 22 October 2021

Towards integrated pest management in red clover seed production

scientific article published in October 2012

Traits related to species persistence and dispersal explain changes in plant communities subjected to habitat loss

article

Using matrix models to explore the influence of temperature on population growth of arthropod pests

article

Water stress and insect herbivory interactively reduce crop yield while the insect pollination benefit is conserved

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

When ecosystem services interact: crop pollination benefits depend on the level of pest control

scientific article published on 26 December 2012

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

scientific article

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