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Food for flower-visiting insects: appreciating common native wild flowering plants.

Published online: 19 Sep 2023

Authors: Wignall, V. R. & Balfour, N. J. & Gandy, S. & Ratnieks, F. L. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Native wild flowering plants provide important season-round nectar and pollen resources for flower-visiting insects, but many are unappreciated or eve...

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Organic farming positively affects honeybee colonies in a flower-poor period in agricultural landscapes.

Published online: 31 Aug 2020

Authors: Wintermantel, D. & Odoux, J. F. & Chadœuf, J. & Bretagnolle, V.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Conventional farming has been implicated in global biodiversity and pollinator declines and organic farming is often regarded as a more ecological alt...

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Local-scale tree and shrub diversity improves pollination services to shea trees in tropical west African parklands.

Published online: 22 Nov 2020

Authors: Delaney, A. & Dembele, A. & Nombré, I. & Lirasse, F. G. & Marshall, E. & Nana, A. & Vickery, J. & Tayleur, C. & Stout, J. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Shea Vitellaria paradoxa trees bear fruit and seeds of considerable economic, nutritional and cultural value in the African Sudano-Sahelian zone. In m...

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Dutch landscapes have lost insect-pollinated plants over the past 87 years.

Published online: 09 Sep 2024

Authors: Pan KaiXuan & Marshall, L. & Snoo, G. R. de & Biesmeijer, J. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The interruption of plant-pollinator interactions may threaten global plant diversity, food security and ecosystem stability. Recent reports of strong...

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Disease management during bloom affects the floral microbiome but not pollination in a mass-flowering crop.

Published online: 22 Jun 2023

Authors: Schaeffer, R. N. & Crowder, D. W. & Illán, J. G. & Beck, J. J. & Fukami, T. & Williams, N. M. & Vannette, R. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Flowering crops are heavily managed during bloom to both promote pollination and prevent disease. Disease management practices can alter the floral mi...

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Social and ecological drivers of success in agri-environment schemes: the roles of farmers and environmental context.

Published online: 10 Jun 2015

Authors: McCracken, M. E. & Woodcock, B. A. & Lobley, M. & Pywell, R. F. & Saratsi, E. & Swetnam, R. D. & Mortimer, S. R. & Harris, S. J. & Winter, M. & Hinsley, S. & Bullock, J. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agri-environment schemes remain a controversial approach to reversing biodiversity losses, partly because the drivers of variation in outcomes are poo...

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Organic dairy farming: impacts on insect-flower interaction networks and pollination.

Published online: 15 Jun 2011

Authors: Power, E. F. & Stout, J. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pollination interactions comprise a network of connections between flowers and insect visitors. They are crucial for reproductive success in many angi...

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Socio-psychological factors, beyond knowledge, predict people's engagement in pollinator conservation.

Published online: 29 Oct 2021

Authors: Knapp, J. L. & Phillips, B. B. & Clements, J. & Shaw, R. F. & Osborne, J. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Nature conservation often depends on the behaviour of individuals, which can be driven by socio-psychological factors such as a person's attitude, kno...

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The effects of forest fragmentation on bee communities in tropical countryside.

Published online: 04 Jun 2008

Authors: Brosi, B. J. & Daily, G. C. & Shih, T. M. & Oviedo, F. & Durán, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite ongoing concerns and controversy over a putative 'global pollination crisis' there is little information on the response of bees, the most imp...

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Bee diversity along a disturbance gradient in tropical lowland forests of south-east Asia.

Published online: 04 Jul 2001

Authors: Liow LeeHsiang & Sodhi, N. S. & Elmqvist, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Bees are believed to be dominant pollen vectors in tropical forests, yet studies specific to bees in South East Asia are rare. Regeneration and restor...

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