[HTML][HTML] Opportunities and threats for pollinator conservation in global towns and cities

KCR Baldock - Current opinion in insect science, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Threats to urban pollinators include urban intensification, climate change,
pesticides and pollution.•Adding honey bee hives could negatively affect wild pollinators in …

Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination

A Kovács‐Hostyánszki, A Espíndola… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide, human appropriation of ecosystems is disrupting plant–pollinator communities
and pollination function through habitat conversion and landscape homogenisation …

Ecological traits interact with landscape context to determine bees' pesticide risk

JL Knapp, CC Nicholson, O Jonsson… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Widespread contamination of ecosystems with pesticides threatens non-target organisms.
However, the extent to which life-history traits affect pesticide exposure and resulting risk in …

[HTML][HTML] Plant protection product residues in plant pollen and nectar: A review of current knowledge

E Zioga, R Kelly, B White, JC Stout - Environmental research, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Exposure to Plant Protection Products, PPPs,(fungicides, herbicides and
insecticides) is a significant stressor for bees and other pollinators, and has recently been …

A critical analysis of the potential for EU Common Agricultural Policy measures to support wild pollinators on farmland

LJ Cole, D Kleijn, LV Dicks, JC Stout… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural intensification and associated loss of high‐quality habitats are key drivers of
insect pollinator declines. With the aim of decreasing the environmental impact of …

The disproportionate value of 'weeds' to pollinators and biodiversity

NJ Balfour, FLW Ratnieks - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural intensification has been implicated in global biodiversity declines. In the
European Union, agri‐environmental schemes are designed to address this. For pollinating …

The potential of different semi-natural habitats to sustain pollinators and natural enemies in European agricultural landscapes

AM Bartual, L Sutter, G Bocci, AC Moonen… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2019 - Elsevier
Semi-natural habitats (SNH) are vital to sustain pollinators and natural enemies, and the
ecosystem services they provide in agroecosystems. However, little is known about the …

Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data

A Bush, R Sollmann, A Wilting, K Bohmann… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Understandably, given the fast pace of biodiversity loss, there is much interest in using Earth
observation technology to track biodiversity, ecosystem functions and ecosystem services …

Impact of biotic and abiotic stressors on managed and feral bees

J Belsky, NK Joshi - Insects, 2019 - mdpi.com
Large-scale declines in bee abundance and species richness over the last decade have
sounded an alarm, given the crucial pollination services that bees provide. Population dips …

Quantifying exposure of wild bumblebees to mixtures of agrochemicals in agricultural and urban landscapes

C Botías, A David, EM Hill, D Goulson - Environmental pollution, 2017 - Elsevier
The increased use of pesticides has caused concern over the possible direct association of
exposure to combinations of these compounds with bee health problems. There is growing …