How urbanization is driving pollinator diversity and pollination–A systematic review

A Wenzel, I Grass, VV Belavadi, T Tscharntke - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban areas are growing worldwide and alter landscapes in a persistent fashion, thereby
affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services such as pollination in a little understood way …

How useful are thermal vulnerability indices?

S Clusella-Trullas, RA Garcia, JS Terblanche… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
To forecast climate change impacts across habitats or taxa, thermal vulnerability indices (eg,
safety margins and warming tolerances) are growing in popularity. Here, we present their …

Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms

ML Pinsky, AM Eikeset, DJ McCauley, JL Payne… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding which species and ecosystems will be most severely affected by warming as
climate change advances is important for guiding conservation and management. Both …

Urbanisation drivers and underlying mechanisms of terrestrial insect diversity loss in cities

MS Fenoglio, A Calviño, E González… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
1. Urbanisation is one of the main land‐use changes behind global insect collapse. Despite
that previous studies have described the negative effects of urbanisation on insect …

Supporting bees in cities: how bees are influenced by local and landscape features

AC Ayers, SM Rehan - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cities are complex ecosystems that, while generally contributing to an
overall reduction in biodiversity, can support surprisingly unique communities of organisms …

A global review of determinants of native bee assemblages in urbanised landscapes

KS Prendergast, KW Dixon… - Insect Conservation and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Loss of natural habitat through land‐use change threatens bees. Urbanisation is a major,
increasing form, of habitat loss, and a novel, pervasive form of disturbance known to impact …

The effects of urbanization on pollinators and pollination: A meta‐analysis

H Liang, YD He, P Theodorou, CF Yang - Ecology Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization is increasing worldwide, with major impacts on biodiversity, species
interactions and ecosystem functioning. Pollination is an ecosystem function vital for …

Thermal plasticity in insects' response to climate change and to multifactorial environments

YK Rodrigues, P Beldade - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Phenotypic plasticity, the property by which living organisms express different phenotypes
depending on environmental conditions, can impact their response to environmental …

Selection on adaptive and maladaptive gene expression plasticity during thermal adaptation to urban heat islands

SC Campbell-Staton, JP Velotta, KM Winchell - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity enables a single genotype to produce multiple phenotypes in response
to environmental variation. Plasticity may play a critical role in the colonization of novel …

Functional ecology of wild bees in cities: towards a better understanding of trait-urbanization relationships

S Buchholz, MH Egerer - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2020 - Springer
A functional ecological understanding of urban wild bee communities is of growing
importance especially in regard to biodiversity conservation, ecosystem service …