Forests are critically important to global pollinator diversity and enhance pollination in adjacent crops

M Ulyshen, KR Urban‐Mead, JB Dorey… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although the importance of natural habitats to pollinator diversity is widely recognized, the
value of forests to pollinating insects has been largely overlooked in many parts of the world …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunities to enhance pollinator biodiversity in solar parks

H Blaydes, SG Potts, JD Whyatt, A Armstrong - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
Renewable power capacity is increasing globally in response to energy decarbonisation,
with solar photovoltaic (PV) projected to be the dominant renewable. A significant proportion …

Towards a functional resource-based concept for habitat: a butterfly biology viewpoint

RLH Dennis, TG Shreeve, H Van Dyck - Oikos, 2003 - JSTOR
The habitat is the basic unit for developments in life history, population dynamics, landscape
ecology and conservation of organisms. It is frequently treated as a particulate, invariant and …

Diversity of butterflies in the agricultural landscape: the role of farming system and landscape heterogeneity

AC Weibull, J Bengtsson, E Nohlgren - Ecography, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
To examine the importance of management practices and landscape structure on diversity of
butterflies 16 farms with organic or conventional management were censused during 1997 …

Bringing diversity back to agriculture: Smaller fields and non-crop elements enhance biodiversity in intensively managed arable farmlands

M Šálek, V Hula, M Kipson, R Daňková, J Niedobová… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Agricultural intensification has substantially reduced multi-scale habitat heterogeneity,
including increased field size and loss of semi-natural structures, thus resulting in large …

Temperate agroforestry systems and insect pollinators: A review

G Bentrup, J Hopwood, NL Adamson, M Vaughan - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
Agroforestry can provide ecosystem services and benefits such as soil erosion control,
microclimate modification for yield enhancement, economic diversification, livestock …

The influences of landscape structure on butterfly distribution and movement: a review

J Dover, J Settele - Journal of Insect Conservation, 2009 - Springer
We review the literature on the influence of landscape structure on butterfly distribution and
movement. We start by examining the definition of landscape commonly used in spatial …

Habitats and resources: the need for a resource-based definition to conserve butterflies

RLH Dennis, TG Shreeve, H Van Dyck - Biodiversity & Conservation, 2006 - Springer
Current definitions of habitat are closely allied to the concept of patch and matrix. This
concept is, for instance, central to the prevailing metapopulation models of population …

Insect conservation: a synthetic management approach

MJ Samways - Annu. Rev. Entomol., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Threats to insect diversity range from habitat loss and invasive alien organisms to
environmental contamination and biological control. Many of the threats are synergistic, with …

Environmental predictors of species richness in forest landscapes: abiotic factors versus vegetation structure

F Zellweger, A Baltensweiler, C Ginzler… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To investigate the performance and relative importance of abiotic and biotic predictors
of species richness of three taxa in forest‐dominated landscapes across an environmentally …