Risks to pollinators and pollination from invasive alien species

AJ Vanbergen, A Espíndola, MA Aizen - Nature ecology & evolution, 2018 - nature.com
Invasive alien species modify pollinator biodiversity and the services they provide that
underpin ecosystem function and human well-being. Building on the Intergovernmental …

Plant functional traits shape multiple ecosystem services, their trade‐offs and synergies in grasslands

M Hanisch, O Schweiger, AF Cord… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits offer promising avenues to investigate how community composition and
diversity define ecosystem functioning and service delivery. In recent years, many empirical …

Food for pollinators: quantifying the nectar and pollen resources of urban flower meadows

DM Hicks, P Ouvrard, KCR Baldock, M Baude… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Planted meadows are increasingly used to improve the biodiversity and aesthetic amenity
value of urban areas. Although many 'pollinator-friendly'seed mixes are available, the floral …

Massively introduced managed species and their consequences for plant–pollinator interactions

B Geslin, B Gauzens, M Baude, I Dajoz… - Advances in ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Since the rise of agriculture, human populations have domesticated plant and animal
species to fulfil their needs. With modern agriculture, a limited number of these species has …

Honeybee spillover reshuffles pollinator diets and affects plant reproductive success

A Magrach, JP González-Varo, M Boiffier… - Nature Ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
During the past decades, managed honeybee stocks have increased globally. Managed
honeybees are particularly used within mass-flowering crops and often spill over to adjacent …

Covariation among reproductive traits in flowering plants shapes their interactions with pollinators

J B. Lanuza, R Rader, J Stavert, LK Kendall… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, plants display enormous variation in life‐history strategies and trait combinations.
However, evidence suggests that evolutionary and physiological constraints limit the …

How much flower‐rich habitat is enough for wild pollinators? Answering a key policy question with incomplete knowledge

LV Dicks, M Baude, SPM Roberts… - Ecological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In 2013, an opportunity arose in E ngland to develop an agri‐environment package for wild
pollinators, as part of the new C ountryside S tewardship scheme launched in 2015. It can …

Impacts of plant invasions in native plant–pollinator networks

V Parra‐Tabla, G Arceo‐Gómez - New Phytologist, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The disruption of mutualisms by invasive species has consequences for biodiversity loss
and ecosystem function. Although invasive plant effects on the pollination of individual …

Temporal variation in plant–pollinator networks from seasonal tropical environments: higher specialization when resources are scarce

CS Souza, PK Maruyama, C Aoki, MR Sigrist… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The temporal dynamics of plant phenology and pollinator abundance across seasons
should influence the structure of plant–pollinator interaction networks. Nevertheless, such …

Sown flower strips in southern Sweden increase abundances of wild bees and hoverflies in the wider landscape

AM Jönsson, J Ekroos, J Dänhardt… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Pollinator populations have suffered severe declines in many industrialised countries due to
reduced floral and nesting resources, brought on by agricultural intensification. One …