The value of forests to pollinating insects varies with forest structure, composition, and age

MD Ulyshen, KM Ballare, CJ Fettig, JW Rivers… - Current Forestry …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Forests play an essential role in conserving pollinating insects
and supporting pollination services in mixed-use landscapes and are particularly important …

Native bee habitat restoration: key ecological considerations from recent North American literature

HE Payne, SJ Mazer, KC Seltmann - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Habitat loss is a primary driver of global biodiversity decline, negatively impacting many
species, including native bees. One approach to counteract the consequences of habitat …

Wild bee response to forest management varies seasonally and is mediated by resource availability

MH Chase, JM Fraterrigo, B Charles… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In many temperate, deciduous forests, long-term management suppression has led to
mesophication (cool, damp, and shaded conditions), resulting in habitat with homogenous …

Stand stage affects wild bee communities in working pine forests

CM Favorito, BF Barnes, EL Briggs, CC Fortuin… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wild bees provide critical pollination services to both crops and native forest plants.
Evidence suggests that wild bees are declining due to factors such as habitat loss, disease …

Open forest successional stages and landscape heterogeneity promote wild bee diversity in temperate forests

T Eckerter, V Braunisch, J Buse… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies have emphasized forests as crucial habitat for wild bees. In Europe, most
forests are managed following the principles of close‐to‐nature silviculture, which combine …

Multidecadal vegetation transformations of a New Mexico ponderosa pine landscape after severe fires and aerial seeding

AP Wion, JT Stevens, K Beeley, R Oertel… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires and climate change increasingly are transforming vegetation composition and
structure, and postfire management may have long‐lasting effects on ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term recovery of Mediterranean ant and bee communities after fire in southern Spain

JM Vidal-Cordero, E Angulo, FP Molina… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wildfires play a determinant role in the composition and structure of animal communities,
especially for groups closely associated with the vegetation and soil, such as bees or ants …

Forest restoration treatments indirectly diversify pollination networks via floral‐and temperature‐mediated effects

CB Davies, TS Davis, T Griswold - Ecological Applications, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In North American conifer forests, a variety of federally initiated thinning programs
are implemented to restore pre‐European settlement forest structures, but these changes …

Social but not solitary bee abundance tracks pollen protein accumulation in forest canopy gaps

CB Davies, TS Davis - Ecological Entomology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Forest restoration projects that create canopy gaps can promote floral diversity and may
provide reservoirs for bee–flower interactions. However, periods of bee activity must match …

Both Landsat‐and LiDAR‐derived measures predict forest bee response to large‐scale wildfire

SM Galbraith, JJ Valente, CJ Dunn… - Remote Sensing in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale disturbances such as wildfire can have profound impacts on the composition,
structure, and functioning of ecosystems. Bees are critical pollinators in natural settings and …