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 …

Solitary bees in Pampean agroecosystems: a review about current status of knowledge

JP Torretta, HJ Marrero… - Journal of Apicultural …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The Pampean region constitutes one of the most extensive and productive grasslands in the
world and experienced an abrupt agricultural expansion in the 20th century, which …

[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] Effect of road corridors on plant diversity in the Qionglai mountain range, China

H Li, P Luo, H Yang, T Li, C Luo, S Wu, H Jia… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
We analyzed the impact of mountain roads on patterns of species richness and community
dissimilarity along elevation gradients with linear mixed-effects models, assessed how non …

Qualitative sustainability assessment of road verge management in France: An approach from causal diagrams to seize the importance of impact pathways

B Marche, M Camargo, SCB Rodriguez… - Environmental Impact …, 2022 - Elsevier
A road verge, also known as a roadside, is a strip of grass or vegetation, sometimes shrubs
and trees, that forms a space on the public property located along a road or highway. They …

High flower richness and abundance decrease pollen transfer on individual plants in road verges but increase it in adjacent fields in intensively managed …

M Monasterolo, SL Poggio, D Medan… - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Road verges can facilitate the movement of pollinators and pollen in intensively managed
agroecosystems, reducing the negative impacts of fragmentation (ie, isolation of wild …

Interspecific interactions disrupted by roads

P Quiles, R Barrientos - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Roads have pervasive impacts on wildlife, including habitat loss and fragmentation, road
mortality, habitat pollution and increased human use of habitats surrounding them. However …

[HTML][HTML] Road verge extent and habitat composition across Great Britain

BB Phillips, A Navaratnam, J Hooper, JM Bullock… - Landscape and Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is growing societal and scientific interest in enhancing road verges for nature and the
environment. This is partly because they are estimated to cover large areas in some regions …

Spatial patterns and drivers of native plant diversity in Hainan, China

GQ Wang, RA Scherson, D Vera, YH Bai… - … of Systematics and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hainan Island has the most extensive and well‐preserved tropical forests in China. With
rapid economic development of Hainan, biodiversity is increasingly at risk. Determining the …

[HTML][HTML] Road encroachment mediates species occupancy, trait filtering and dissimilarity of passerine communities

F Ascensão, M D'Amico, E Revilla, HM Pereira - Biological Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
Assessing the road effects on biodiversity is challenging because impacts may depend on
both wildlife responses to roads and on the spatial arrangement of roads. We questioned …