Bees are important pollinators and are essential for the reproduction of many plants in
natural and agricultural ecosystems. However, bees can have adverse ecological effects …

Highlights•Insect ecological projections have grown, increasingly incorporating best
practices.•Correlative studies continue to dominate, complicating interpretability•Projections …

Open-source biodiversity databases contain a large number of species occurrence records
but are often spatially biased; which affects the reliability of species distribution models …

The present study aimed to characterise the bacterial, fungal and parasite gut community of
the invasive bee Megachile sculpturalis sampled from native (Japan) and invaded (USA and …

Invasion risks may be influenced either negatively or positively by climate change,
depending on the species. These can be predicted with species distribution models, but …

Climate change will cause important declines in environmental suitability, especially when
living at high elevations. The critically endangered Salamandra lanzai from the Alps may be …

Citizen science, a practice of public participation in scientific projects, is popular in Western
countries, however, it is still a relatively novel approach in Southeast Europe. In this region …

Invasive species are the major cause of native biodiversity loss and species extinction,
which have predominantly affected one of the world's 'hottest hotspots' of biodiversity located …

Psacothea hilaris hilaris is an exotic cerambycid detected in Lombardy (northern Italy) in
2005 and now established and undergoing an expansion phase. The species constitutes a …

Aim If communities have a ceiling determining the number of species that can coexist, then
the ability of alien species to establish at any given location should be related to the quantity …