Critical links between biodiversity and health in wild bee conservation

MA Parreño, C Alaux, JL Brunet, L Buydens… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Wild bee populations are declining due to human activities, such as land use change, which
strongly affect the composition and diversity of available plants and food sources. The …

Using DNA metabarcoding to identify floral visitation by pollinators

A Lowe, L Jones, L Witter, S Creer, N de Vere - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
The identification of floral visitation by pollinators provides an opportunity to improve our
understanding of the fine-scale ecological interactions between plants and pollinators …

Ecological and social factors influence interspecific pathogens occurrence among bees

R Tiritelli, S Flaminio, L Zavatta, R Ranalli… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The interspecific transmission of pathogens can occur frequently in the environment. Among
wild bees, the main spillover cases are caused by pathogens associated with Apis mellifera …

Landscapes with high amounts of mass-flowering fruit crops reduce the reproduction of two solitary bees

M Eeraerts, N Piot, M Pisman, G Claus, I Meeus… - Basic and Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
The intensification of agriculture and the loss of natural habitat are key drivers of the
observed declines in wild bee populations in recent decades. Mass-flowering crops are …

Landscape structure affects temporal dynamics in the bumble bee virome: Landscape heterogeneity supports colony resilience

L Bosco, O Yañez, A Schauer, C Maurer… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Virus spillovers from managed honey bees, Apis mellifera, are thought to contribute to the
decline of wild pollinators, including bumble bees. However, data on the impact of such …

Towards integrated pest and pollinator management in intensive pear cultivation: A case study from Belgium

T Belien, S Raymaekers, M Eeraerts, V Mommaerts… - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Over the past decades, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies have
been widely adopted in commercial fruit production in Europe, supporting natural pest …

Floral shape predicts bee–parasite transmission potential

MS Pinilla‐Gallego, WH Ng, VE Amaral, RE Irwin - Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The spread of parasites is one of the primary drivers of population decline of both managed
and wild bees. Several bee parasites are transmitted by the shared use of flowers, turning …

Contrasting effects of beekeeping and land use on plant–pollinator networks and pathogen prevalence in Mediterranean semiarid ecosystems

V Martínez‐López, C Ruiz, MM Pires, P De la Rúa - Ecography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pollinators are fundamental for plant reproduction in natural and agricultural ecosystems.
However, their populations are declining worldwide, threatening the functioning of the …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of mass-flowering crops on bee pathogen dynamics

T Tuerlings, L Buydens, G Smagghe, N Piot - International Journal for …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nearly two fifths of the Earth's land area is currently used for agriculture, substantially
impacting the environment and ecosystems. Besides the direct impact through land use …

Host and floral communities shape parasite prevalence and reproduction in intensively managed forests

LC Ponisio, H Cohen, SM Galbraith, J Zorn… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how working landscapes can maintain viable wildlife populations is key to
evaluating their conservation potential. We assessed the potential of intensively managed …