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 …

Effects of forest management on the conservation of bird communities in eastern North America: A meta‐analysis

ME Akresh, DI King, SL McInvale, JL Larkin… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Forest management affects conditions for both early‐and late‐seral organisms, and
managers and conservationists require information for balancing the ostensibly opposing …

Local factors influence the wild bee functional community at the urban-forest interface

M Edelkind-Vealey, MD Ulyshen… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Urban forests provide necessary habitat for many forest-associated bee species
amidst development and fragmentation. These forest fragments provide a variety of …

Sampling the understory, midstory, and canopy is necessary to fully characterize native bee communities of temperate forests and their dynamic environmental …

MJ Cunningham-Minnick, HP Roberts… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Native bee communities of temperate forests are conventionally sampled from
the understory, yet there is growing evidence that bee assemblages in forest canopies are …

Diverse forest management strategies support functionally and temporally distinct bee communities

MH Chase, B Charles, A Harmon‐Threatt… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Forests worldwide support insect biodiversity and the ecosystem services provided by
insects such as pollination. As forest health declines, management that emulates historical …

Tree traits are a stronger predictor of bee traits and species richness than taxonomic diversity

A González‐Chaves, RC Borges… - Functional …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits help to understand biological diversity and the mechanism by which
ecological communities are structured and how they respond to the environment. For …

Abundant, distinct, and seasonally dynamic bee community in the canopy‐aerosphere interface above a temperate forest

MJ Cunningham‐Minnick, J Milam, B Kane… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of how bees (Apoidea) use temperate forests is largely limited to
sampling the understory and forest floor. Studies over the last decade have demonstrated …

Can't see the flowers for the trees: factors driving floral abundance within early-successional forests in the central Appalachian Mountains

CL Mathis, DJ McNeil Jr, MR Lee… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Silviculture can be a powerful tool for restoring and enhancing habitat for forest-dependent
wildlife. In eastern North America, regenerating timber harvests support abundant …

Regional analysis estimates extensive habitat impairment for the widespread, but vulnerable eastern box turtle

HP Roberts, L Erb, L Willey, S Buchanan… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Turtle populations are declining globally, yet limited attention has been directed toward
understanding the conservation status of species perceived to be widespread and common …

[HTML][HTML] Forest Management Is Key for Conserving Biodiversity and Providing Ecosystem Services in the United States

C Loehle, DA Miller, AI Kovach, AL Larsen-Gray… - Forests, 2024 - mdpi.com
Forests are valuable for a wide variety of reasons, including biodiversity and carbon
sequestration and storage. As such, in the US, various parties have proposed large-scale …