The importance of forests in bumble bee biology and conservation

JM Mola, J Hemberger, J Kochanski… - Bioscience, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Declines of many bumble bee species have raised concerns because of their importance as
pollinators and potential harbingers of declines among other insect taxa. At present, bumble …

[HTML][HTML] Bumblebee queen mortality along roads increase with traffic

J Dániel-Ferreira, Å Berggren, R Bommarco… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Managing road verges to promote diverse and flower-rich plant communities has been
proposed to mitigate the decline of pollinating insects caused by the loss of natural and semi …

[HTML][HTML] Parental care behaviour in bumble bee queens is tightly regulated by the number of helpers in incipient nests

ES Gustilo, K Fisher, SH Woodard - Animal Behaviour, 2023 - Elsevier
Parents that provide parental care must balance the conservation of resources with the
benefits of expenditure in support of existing offspring. There is added complexity in social …

[BOOK][B] Farming with the environment: thirty years of Allerton Project research

C Stoate - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
This book examines, discusses and shares over 30 years' worth of research from the
Allerton Project, a research and demonstration farm in the UK which has been carrying out …

The Cryptic Life Cycle Stages of Bumble Bees: Using Natural History to Guide Conservation.

G Pugesek - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Bumble bees (Bombus spp.) are a taxon of great importance to agricultural systems and
natural communities. Rapid declines of bumble bee populations in North America and …

[BOOK][B] Untangling the roles of prey availability, habitat quality and predation as predictors of hedgehog abundance

KA Lee - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Badgers (Meles meles) are the principal predator of hedgehogs (Erinaceus europeaus) and
have been implicated in the decline of hedgehog populations in Britain and elsewhere …