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A critical analysis of the potential for EU Common Agricultural Policy measures to support wild pollinators on farmland

scientific article published on 16 February 2020

A framework for comparing pollinator performance: effectiveness and efficiency

scientific article published on 09 December 2009

A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems

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 global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline

scientific article published on 16 August 2021

A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination ⬇️

scientific article

A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination

A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination

A method for the objective selection of landscape-scale study regions and sites at the national level ⬇️

scientific article published in 2017

A novel method for assessing risks to pollinators from plant protection products using honeybees as a model species

scientific article published on 22 July 2010

A qualitative method for the spatial and thematic downscaling of land-use change scenarios

A restatement of recent advances in the natural science evidence base concerning neonicotinoid insecticides and insect pollinators

scientific article

A restatement of the natural science evidence base concerning neonicotinoid insecticides and insect pollinators

scientific article

A systems approach reveals urban pollinator hotspots and conservation opportunities ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Abundance and diversity of wild bees along gradients of heavy metal pollution

article by Dawid Moroń et al published 9 November 2011 in Journal of Applied Ecology

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

scientific article published in 2022

Addressing the inadvertent sodium and chloride burden in critically ill patients: a prospective before-and-after study in a tertiary mixed intensive care unit population

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

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

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

Alarm: Assessing Large-scale environmental Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods

scientific article published in 2005

Altitude acts as an environmental filter on phylogenetic composition, traits and diversity in bee communities

scientific article (publication date: 7 November 2012)

An Approach to Analysing Scale-Sensitivity and Scale-Effectiveness of Governance in Biodiversity Conservation

scientific article published on 14 March 2014

Arthropod Pest Control for UK Oilseed Rape - Comparing Insecticide Efficacies, Side Effects and Alternatives

scientific article (publication date: 2017)

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

article

Assessing continental-scale risks for generalist and specialist pollinating bee species under climate change

scientific article

Author Correction: Biocultural approaches to pollinator conservation

scholarly article published in Nature Sustainability

Bee conservation: Inclusive solutions

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

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

Biocultural approaches to pollinator conservation

Biodiversity conservation across scales: lessons from a science–policy dialogue

scientific article published on 24 August 2012

CLIMATE CHANGE. Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents

scientific article

COMMENTARY ON KLEIJN ET AL. 2006

scientific article published in 2006

Characteristics of trees used as nest sites by Apis dorsata (Hymenoptera, Apidae) in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India

scholarly article by Sumin George Thomas et al published 31 July 2009 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Climate change impacts on pollination

scientific article

Climate-driven spatial mismatches between British orchards and their pollinators: increased risks of pollination deficits. ⬇️

scientific article

Climate‐driven phenological shifts in emergence dates of British bees

scientific article published in 2023

Climatic Risk and Distribution Atlas of European Bumblebees

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

Comparison of pollinators and natural enemies: a meta-analysis of landscape and local effects on abundance and richness in crops ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 April 2013

Conservation ecology of bees: populations, species and communities

scientific article published on 06 July 2009

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

scientific article

Convergent evolution: floral guides, stingless bee nest entrances, and insectivorous pitchers.

scientific article published in September 2005

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

scientific article published on 18 February 2016

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 in a climate change scenario: short-term effects of crop diversity on resilience and ecosystem service provision under drought

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

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

scientific article published on 17 February 2022

Declines of managed honey bees and beekeepers in Europe

article

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

Detecting insect pollinator declines on regional and global scales

scientific article

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

article

Dimensions of biodiversity loss: Spatial mismatch in land-use impacts on species, functional and phylogenetic diversity of European bees

scientific article

Disentangling the contributions of dispersal limitation, ecological drift, and ecological filtering to wild bee community assembly

scientific article published in 2017

Disentangling the effects of land-use change, climate and CO2on projected future European habitat types

scientific article published in 2015

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

scientific article published on 10 March 2010

Distance from forest edge affects bee pollinators in oilseed rape fields.

scientific article

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

article

Ecological Intensification: Bridging the Gap between Science and Practice

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

Ecological and life-history traits predict bee species responses to environmental disturbances

scientific article published in October 2010

Ecological intensification: harnessing ecosystem services for food security ⬇️

scientific article published on November 12, 2012

Ecological traits affect the sensitivity of bees to land-use pressures in European agricultural landscapes

scientific article

Effects of patch size and density on flower visitation and seed set of wild plants: a pan-European approach

article

Effects of seed mixture and management on beetle assemblages of arable field margins

article published in 2008

Elevated temperature drives a shift from selfing to outcrossing in the insect-pollinated legume, faba bean (Vicia faba).

scientific article

Enhanced biodiversity and pollination in UK agroforestry systems

scientific article

Enhancing habitat to help the plight of the bumblebee.

scientific article published in April 2011

Enhancing legume crop pollination and natural pest regulation for improved food security in changing African landscapes

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Environmental factors driving the effectiveness of European agri-environmental measures in mitigating pollinator loss--a meta-analysis

scientific article

Europa Biodiversity Observation Network: integrating data streams to support policy

scientific article published on 26 January 2022

Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark

scientific article published on 28 April 2021

Evidence-based conservation: reply to Tepedino et al.

scientific article published on 24 December 2014

Field boundary features can stabilise bee populations and the pollination of mass‐flowering crops in rotational systems

scientific article published on 17 June 2021

Floral interventions enhance flower visitor communities and pollination services in moringa plantations

scientific article published in 2023

Floral volatiles controlling ant behaviour

scientific article published in 2009

Food for Pollinators: Quantifying the Nectar and Pollen Resources of Urban Flower Meadows ⬇️

scientific article

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

scientific article published in February 2015

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

scientific article

High-throughput monitoring of wild bee diversity and abundance via mitogenomics

scientific article

Honeybee pollination benefits could inform solar park business cases, planning decisions and environmental sustainability targets

scientific article

Identifying key knowledge needs for evidence-based conservation of wild insect pollinators: a collaborative cross-sectoral exercise

article

Impact of chronic neonicotinoid exposure on honeybee colony performance and queen supersedure

scientific article

Insect pollination as an agronomic input: Strategies for oilseed rape production

article by Michael P. D. Garratt et al published 16 April 2018 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Interactive effect of floral abundance and semi-natural habitats on pollinators in field beans (Vicia faba)

International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Investigating the phytotoxicity of the graminicide fluazifop-P-butyl against native UK wildflower species.

scientific article

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

article

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

scientific article

Landscape-scale drivers of pollinator communities may depend on land-use configuration

scientific article published on 2 May 2022

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

article

MEASURING BEE DIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN HABITATS AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS

article

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

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of Biоdiversity (MAMBO)

scientific article published on 7 December 2023

Molecular taxonomic analysis of the plant associations of adult pollen beetles (Nitidulidae: Meligethinae), and the population structure of Brassicogethes aeneus ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

Nature Conservation – a new dimension in Open Access publishing bridging science and application

article

Nectar resource diversity organises flower-visitor community structure

scientific article published on 26 November 2004

Neonicotinoid pesticide exposure impairs crop pollination services provided by bumblebees

scientific article

New tools to boost butterfly habitat quality in existing grass buffer strips

article

New tools to boost butterfly habitat quality in existing grass buffer strips

scholarly article published 2010

Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

scientific article

Novel management to enhance spider biodiversity in existing grass buffer strips

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

scientific article published on 19 October 2021

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

article

Patterns of size variation in bees at a continental scale: does Bergmann's rule apply?

scientific article published in 2018

Pesticide use negatively affects bumble bees across European landscapes

scientific article published on 29 November 2023

Plant-pollinator biodiversity and pollination services in a complex Mediterranean landscape

article

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

article

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

Pollinator community responses to the spatial population structure of wild plants: A pan-European approach

article

Pollinator conservation—the difference between managing for pollination services and preserving pollinator diversity

article

Pollinator diversity and crop pollination services are at risk

scientific article published in 2005

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

scientific article published on 17 August 2021

Protecting an Ecosystem Service

article

Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes

scientific article published on 26 January 2021

Quantifying the impact and relevance of scientific research

scientific article

Rapid assessment of insect pollination services to inform decision‐making

scientific article published on 25 January 2022

Relocation risky for bumblebee colonies—Response

scientific article published in October 2015

Research trends in ecosystem services provided by insects

scholarly article by Jorge Ari Noriega et al published February 2018 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Responses of invertebrate trophic level, feeding guild and body size to the management of improved grassland field margins

article

Risk to pollinators from anthropogenic electro-magnetic radiation (EMR): Evidence and knowledge gaps

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

Risks to pollinators from different land-use transitions: bee species' responses to agricultural expansion show strong phylogenetic signal: Appendix

article

Robotic bees for crop pollination: Why drones cannot replace biodiversity

scientific article published on 14 June 2018

Role of nesting resources in organising diverse bee communities in a Mediterranean landscape

scientific article published on 17 January 2005

Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

scientific article

Securing the Conservation of Biodiversity across Administrative Levels and Spatial, Temporal, and Ecological Scales – Research Needs and Approaches of the SCALES Project

article

Showcasing synergies between agriculture, biodiversity and ecosystem services to help farmers capitalising on native biodiversity (SHOWCASE)

scientific article published on 11 July 2022

Species distribution models for crop pollination: a modelling framework applied to Great Britain. ⬇️

scientific article

Species matter when considering landscape effects on carabid distributions

scientific article

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

scientific article

Supporting local diversity of habitats and species on farmland: a comparison of three wildlife-friendly schemes

scientific article

Survival, reproduction and population growth of the bee pollinator,Osmia rufa(Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), along gradients of heavy metal pollution

scholarly article by Dawid Moroń et al published 23 May 2013 in Insect Conservation and Diversity

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

scientific article

Temperate agroforestry systems provide greater pollination service than monoculture

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Ten policies for pollinators.

scientific article

Testing projected wild bee distributions in agricultural habitats: predictive power depends on species traits and habitat type.

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

The city as a refuge for insect pollinators.

scientific article published on 14 September 2016

The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis

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 non‐crop habitat on spotted wing drosophila (<i>Drosophila suzukii</i>) abundance in fruit systems: A meta‐analysis

scientific article published in 2022

The impact of Solanum elaeagnifolium, an invasive plant in the Mediterranean, on the flower visitation and seed set of the native co-flowering species Glaucium flavum

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 impact of over 80 years of land cover changes on bee and wasp pollinator communities in England ⬇️

scientific article published in May 2015

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 potential for wildflower interventions to enhance natural enemies and pollinators in commercial apple orchards is limited by other management practices

scientific article published in 2020

The potential impacts of insecticides on the life-history traits of bees and the consequences for pollination

scientific article published on 15 April 2011

The role of climate in past forest loss in an ecologically important region of South Asia

scientific article published on 11 March 2022

The role of insect pollinators in avocado production: A global review

publication published on 09 February 2021

The value of sown grass margins for enhancing soil macrofaunal biodiversity in arable systems

scientific article published in 2008

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

article by Francesco de Bello et al published 10 April 2010 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Traditional and cover crop-derived mulches enhance soil ecosystem services in apple orchards

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article

Where is the UK's pollinator biodiversity? The importance of urban areas for flower-visiting insects. ⬇️

scientific article published in March 2015

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

scientific article

Wild bee and floral diversity co-vary in response to the direct and indirect impacts of land use

scientific article published in 2017

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

scientific article

Windows of opportunity and the temporal structuring of foraging activity in a desert solitary bee

scientific article published in May 1999

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