Bumble bees (Bombus) are unusually important pollinators, with approximately 260 wild
species native to all biogeographic regions except sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, and New …

Our world is in the midst of unprecedented change—climate shifts and sustained,
widespread habitat degradation have led to dramatic declines in biodiversity rivaling …

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 …

To date, regulatory pesticide risk assessments have relied on the honey bee (Apis mellifera
L.)(Hymenoptera: Apidae) as a surrogate test species for estimating the risk of pesticide …

Concerns about the rapid and severe declines of many bumble bee (Bombus spp.) species
in Europe, and more recently North America, have spurred research into the extent and …

In light of bee declines, the importance of pollination services from managed and native
bees to our agriculture and economy is of great political, scientific and public interest …

Time series of abundances are critical for understanding how abiotic factors and species
interactions affect population dynamics, but are rarely linked with experiments and also …

Agricultural intensification is a key suspect among putative drivers of recent insect declines,
but an explicit link between historical change in agricultural land cover and insect …

Conservation biology can profit greatly from incorporating a phylogenetic perspective into
analyses of patterns and drivers of species extinction risk. We applied such an approach to …

Supporting managed honey bees by pasturing in natural landscapes has come under
review due to concerns that honey bees could negatively impact the survival of wild bees …