Approximately 25 years ago, ecologists became increasingly interested in the question of
whether ongoing biodiversity loss matters for the functioning of ecosystems. As such, a new …

BACKGROUND The species richness of wild bees and other pollinators has declined over
the past 50 years, with some species undergoing major declines and a few going extinct …

Pollination is a critical ecosystem service underpinning the productivity of agricultural
systems across the world. Wild insect populations provide a substantial contribution to the …

Several recent studies link parental environments to phenotypes in subsequent generations.
In this work, we investigate the mechanism by which paternal diet affects offspring …

Wild and managed bees are well documented as effective pollinators of global crops of
economic importance. However, the contributions by pollinators other than bees have been …

In the past two decades, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship
between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, most of which focussed on a limited set of …

Managed bees are critical for crop pollination worldwide. As the demand for pollinator-
dependent crops increases, so does the use of managed bees. Concern has arisen that …

Insects play a key role in the regulation and dynamics of many ecosystem services (ES).
However, this role is often assumed, with limited or no experimental quantification of its real …

Ecological intensification, or the improvement of crop yield through enhancement of
biodiversity, may be a sustainable pathway toward greater food supplies. Such sustainable …

Worldwide, human appropriation of ecosystems is disrupting plant–pollinator communities
and pollination function through habitat conversion and landscape homogenisation …