Bee diversity decreases rapidly with time since harvest in intensively managed conifer forests

RA Zitomer, SM Galbraith, MG Betts… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite widespread concerns about the anthropogenic drivers of global pollinator declines,
little information is available about the impacts of land management practices on wild bees …

Interspecific interactions disrupted by roads

P Quiles, R Barrientos - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Roads have pervasive impacts on wildlife, including habitat loss and fragmentation, road
mortality, habitat pollution and increased human use of habitats surrounding them. However …

The potential underlying mechanisms during learning flights

OJN Bertrand, A Sonntag - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2023 - Springer
Hymenopterans, such as bees and wasps, have long fascinated researchers with their
sinuous movements at novel locations. These movements, such as loops, arcs, or zigzags …

Bumble bee colony health and performance vary widely across the urban ecosystem

P Theodorou, O Kühn, LM Baltz, C Wild… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization is a global phenomenon that can affect fitness and could challenge the
persistence of most species, including wild bee pollinators. Yet, how and which …

Modeling bee movement shows how a perceptual masking effect can influence flower discovery

A Morán, M Lihoreau, A Pérez-Escudero… - PLOS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Understanding how pollinators move across space is key to understanding plant mating
patterns. Bees are typically assumed to search for flowers randomly or using simple …

Ant colonies explore novel environments with more slower, curvier walks, particularly near the nest

S Popp, A Dornhaus - Insectes Sociaux, 2023 - Springer
Central-place foragers must learn the resource and visual landscapes around them when
they are in a new environment, to facilitate efficient foraging and navigation. We investigated …

Assessing habitat connectivity of rare species to inform urban conservation planning

EM McCluskey, FC Kuzma, HD Enander… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization is commonly associated with biodiversity loss and habitat fragmentation.
However, urban environments often have greenspaces that can support wildlife populations …

Bumblebees mediate landscape effects on a forest herb's population genetic structure in European agricultural landscapes

JT Feigs, S Huang, SIJ Holzhauer, J Brunet… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Spatially isolated plant populations in agricultural landscapes exhibit genetic responses not
only to habitat fragmentation per se but also to the composition of the landscape matrix …

Navigation: Cognition, learning, and memory

C Doussot, J Purdy, M Lihoreau - The Foraging Behavior of the Honey Bee …, 2024 - Elsevier
Foraging honeybees face numerous navigational challenges, requiring cognitive abilities for
locating and returning to important locations, such as flower patches or the colony hive, that …

Parental provisioning is weakly age‐dependent and heritable in a small passerine

M Krist, A Edme, A Höchsmannová, M Janča… - Ibis, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Parental care in birds encompasses many behaviours, from selecting nest‐sites and
supplying eggs with nutrients to incubation and offspring provisioning. Unlike the early …