List of works by Richard F. Pywell

A regional-scale study of associations between farmland birds and linear woody networks of hedgerows and trees

scientific article

Addressing pollination deficits in orchard crops through habitat management for wild pollinators

scientific article published in 2022

Agri-environment scheme enhances small mammal diversity and abundance at the farm-scale

article

Are Ants Useful Indicators of Restoration Success in Temperate Grasslands?

scientific article published on 06 October 2008

Assessing the effectiveness of scrub management at the landscape scale using rapid field assessment and remote sensing.

scientific article

Assessing the value of annual and perennial forage mixtures for bumblebees by direct observation and pollen analysis

scientific article published on 22 February 2006

Bacterial and archaeal taxa are reliable indicators of soil restoration across distributed calcareous grasslands

scientific article published on 25 April 2020

Can long-term floodplain meadow recreation replicate species composition and functional characteristics of target grasslands?

scientific article published on 06 June 2011

Citizen science monitoring reveals links between honeybee health, pesticide exposure and seasonal availability of floral resources

scientific article published in 2022

Colonization of grassland by sown species: dispersal versus microsite limitation in responses to management

article

Country-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees and wild bees.

scientific article published in June 2017

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

Declines in forage availability for bumblebees at a national scale

article

Developing a biodiversity-based indicator for large-scale environmental assessment: a case study of proposed shale gas extraction sites in Britain

scientific article published in 2016

E-Planner: A web-based tool for planning environmental enhancement on British agricultural land

scientific article published in 2022

Ecological restoration on farmland can drive beneficial functional responses in plant and invertebrate communities

scientific article published on 15 December 2010

Effects of future agricultural change scenarios on beneficial insects

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Equivocal Evidence for Colony Level Stress Effects on Bumble Bee Pollination Services

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Functional diversity positively affects prey suppression by invertebrate predators: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 05 July 2018

Grassland management influences spatial patterns of soil microbial communities

article published in 2013

Grazing alters insect visitation networks and plant mating systems

article

Green hay application and diverse seeding approaches to restore grazed lowland meadows: progress after 4 years and effects of a flood risk gradient

scientific article published on 19 April 2020

Green hay transfer for grassland restoration: species capture and establishment

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

Habitat-based models for predicting the occurrence of ground-beetles in arable landscapes: two alternative approaches

Impacts of neonicotinoid use on long-term population changes in wild bees in England

scientific article

Integration of DNA extraction, metabarcoding and an informatics pipeline to underpin a national citizen science honey monitoring scheme

scientific article published on 12 March 2021

Knowledge-based models for predicting species occurrence in arable conditions

article

Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Long-term change in calcareous grassland vegetation and drivers over three time periods between 1970 and 2016

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

Long-term effects of hedgerow management policies on resource provision for wildlife

Long-term heathland restoration on former grassland: The results of a 17-year experiment

scientific article published on 07 March 2011

Long-term woodland restoration on lowland farmland through passive rewilding

Long‐term cattle grazing shifts the ecological state of forest soils

scientific article published in 2022

Management to Support Multiple Ecosystem Services from Productive Grasslands

scientific article published in 2021

Managing plant population spread: prediction and analysis using a simple model

scientific article published in June 2008

National patterns of functional diversity and redundancy in predatory ground beetles and bees associated with key UK arable crops

article

Neonicotinoid residues in UK honey despite European Union moratorium.

scientific article published on 3 January 2018

Neonicotinoid use on cereals and sugar beet is linked to continued low exposure risk in honeybees

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Overcoming undesirable resilience in the global food system

Patterns of invertebrate functional diversity highlight the vulnerability of ecosystem services over a 45-year period

scientific article published on 18 August 2021

Plant traits as predictors of performance in ecological restoration

article

Population density but not stability can be predicted from species distribution models

article

Potential landscape-scale pollinator networks across Great Britain: structure, stability and influence of agricultural land cover

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

Re-creating Semi-natural Communities: Vacuum Harvesting and Hand Collection of Seed on Calcareous Grassland

scientific article published on 28 December 2004

Replication, effect sizes and identifying the biological impacts of pesticides on bees under field conditions

article published in 2016

Restoration of biodiversity enhances agricultural production

scientific article published on 11 March 2003

Restoration of ecosystem services and biodiversity: conflicts and opportunities.

scientific article

Restoration of species-rich grassland on arable land: assessing the limiting processes using a multi-site experiment

article by Richard Pywell et al published 30 April 2002 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Rule-based predictive models are not cost-effective alternatives to bird monitoring on farmland

Seed bank dynamics in restored grassland following the sowing of high- and low-diversity seed mixtures

scientific article

Slow development of woodland vegetation and bird communities during 33 years of passive rewilding in open farmland

scientific article published on 11 November 2022

Soil multifunctionality and drought resistance are determined by plant structural traits in restoring grassland

scientific article published on 20 August 2018

Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

The effect of arable field margin composition on invertebrate biodiversity

article

The germination niches of grassland species targeted for restoration: effects of seed pre-treatments

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

The potential impact of global warming on the efficacy of field margins sown for the conservation of bumble-bees

scientific article

The restoration and re-creation of species-rich lowland grassland on land formerly managed for intensive agriculture in the UK

scientific article published on 09 December 2003

The seed banks of English lowland calcareous grasslands along a restoration chronosequence

scientific article published in 2009

Two common invertebrate predators show varying predation responses to different types of sentinel prey

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Wildlife-friendly farming benefits rare birds, bees and plants.

scientific article

Wildlife-friendly farming increases crop yield: evidence for ecological intensification

scientific article published in October 2015