How will climatic warming affect insect pollinators?

MG Johnson, JR Glass, ME Dillon… - Advances in insect …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Predicting the effects of climate warming on insect pollinators is challenging. Insects are
small, mobile, and can be excellent thermoregulators. We describe behavioral and …

Fruit set is moderately dependent on insect pollinators in strawberry and is limited by the availability of pollen under natural open conditions

CM Menzel - The Journal of Horticultural Science and …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Modern strawberry (Fragaria× ananass a Duch.) cultivars are hermaphrodite and have fertile
flowers, with the anthers releasing viable pollen. Cultivars are self-compatible and do not …

Pollination in agroecosystems: A review of the conceptual framework with a view to sound monitoring

M Giovanetti, S Albertazzi, S Flaminio, R Ranalli… - Land, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
The pollination ecology in agroecosystems tackles a landscape in which plants and
pollinators need to adjust, or be adjusted, to human intervention. A valid, widely applied …

[HTML][HTML] The development of the solitary bee Osmia bicornis is affected by some insecticide agrochemicals at environmentally relevant concentrations

JS Mokkapati, AJ Bednarska, R Laskowski - Science of the Total …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Solitary bees provide essential pollination services for many arable crops, but are prone to
global decline. Agricultural intensification, which is connected with pesticide usage, is …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing sunflower yield: Understanding pollinator contribution to inform agri-environmental strategies

L Mota, J Loureiro, JA González, V Hevia… - Field Crops …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Context The agricultural intensification due to global increased food demand has harmed
pollinator communities worldwide. However, some of the economically most important …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal and spatial niche complementarity in sunflower pollinator communities and pollination function

C Zaragoza-Trello, M Vila, J Scheper… - Basic and Applied …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
One of the most invoked mechanisms mediating the positive effect of pollinator diversity on
plant reproduction is pollinator's niche complementarity (ie partitioning of resource use by …

Methodological shortcomings and lack of taxonomic effort beleaguer Australian bee studies

KS Prendergast, K Hogendoorn - Austral Ecology, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Bees are a diverse insect group (Michener 2007). Their variation in sociality, nesting and
foraging behaviour, and close association with angiosperms have made bees a topic of …

Importance of maternal resources in pollen limitation studies with pollinator gradients: A case study with sunflower

S Chabert, RE Mallinger, C Senechal… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Pollen limitation studies are scarce in entomophilous crops, as it can be very tedious to
supplement plants with hand pollination at the relevant plant scale. To overcome this, recent …

[HTML][HTML] Proximity to wildflower strips did not boost crop pollination on small, diversified farms harboring diverse wild bees

CM Delphia, KM O'Neill, LA Burkle - Basic and Applied Ecology, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The yield of many agricultural crops depends on pollination services provided by wild and
managed bees, many of which are experiencing declines due to factors such as reductions …

Sunflower-associated reductions in Varroa mite infestation of honey bee colonies

EC Palmer-Young, R Malfi, Y Zhou… - Journal of Economic …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Landscapes can affect parasite epidemiology in wild and agricultural animals. Honey bees
are threatened by loss of floral resources and by parasites, principally the mite Varroa …