From science to society: implementing effective strategies to improve wild pollinator health

JC Stout, LV Dicks - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite a substantial increase in scientific, public and political interest in pollinator health
and many practical conservation efforts, incorporating initiatives across a range of scales …

Pursuing best practices for minimizing wild bee captures to support biological research

A Montero‐Castaño, JBU Koch… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bees are important pollinators of wild and domesticated flowering plant species. Over the
last 30 years, an increasing number of scientific articles have been published on the ecology …

Towards a US national program for monitoring native bees

SH Woodard, S Federman, RR James… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
North America has more than 4000 bee species, yet we have little information on the health,
distribution, and population trends of most of these species. In the United States, what …

Patterns of invertebrate functional diversity highlight the vulnerability of ecosystem services over a 45-year period

A Greenop, BA Woodcock, CL Outhwaite, C Carvell… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Declines in invertebrate biodiversity 1, 2 pose a significant threat to key ecosystem services.
3–5 Current analyses of biodiversity often focus on taxonomic diversity (eg, species …

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

MPD Garratt, GA De Groot, M Albrecht… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Pollinators face multiple pressures and there is evidence of populations in decline. As
demand for insect‐pollinated crops increases, crop production is threatened by shortfalls in …

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

LA Hutchinson, TH Oliver, TD Breeze, EJ Bailes… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2021 - Elsevier
The importance of wild bees for crop pollination is well established, but less is known about
which species contribute to service delivery to inform agricultural management, monitoring …

Globalisation and pollinators: Pollinator declines are an economic threat to global food systems

JT Murphy, TD Breeze, B Willcox… - People and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Trade in animal‐pollinated crops plays an important role in global food systems: in many low‐
income countries, export of pollinated crops such as coffee and cocoa plays a significant …

Intensive monitoring for bees in North America: indispensable or improvident?

VJ Tepedino, ZM Portman - Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Continued reports of bee declines have prompted repeated calls for a national monitoring
programme in the United States. Here, we argue that such a large‐scale surveillance …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of wildflower strips, landscape structure and agricultural practices on wild bee assemblages–A matter of data resolution and spatial scale?

N Hellwig, LF Schubert, A Kirmer, S Tischew… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Agricultural systems in Central Europe were redesigned during the last century to
attain maximum yields. The results often lead to homogeneous landscapes with only few …

Spatial monitoring and insect behavioural analysis using computer vision for precision pollination

MN Ratnayake, DC Amarathunga, A Zaman… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Insects are the most important global pollinator of crops and play a key role in maintaining
the sustainability of natural ecosystems. Insect pollination monitoring and management are …