Urban Ecosystems, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 28(3)
Published: March 27, 2025
Language: Английский
Molecular Ecology, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 32(23), P. 6345 - 6362
Published: Sept. 10, 2022
Abstract Anthropogenic activities are triggering global changes in the environment, causing entire communities of plants, pollinators and their interactions to restructure, ultimately leading species declines. To understand mechanisms behind community shifts declines, as well monitoring managing impacts, a effort must be made characterize plant–pollinator detail, across different habitat types, latitudes, elevations, levels types disturbances. Generating data this scale will only feasible with rapid, high‐throughput methods. Pollen DNA metabarcoding provides advantages throughput, efficiency taxonomic resolution over traditional methods, such microscopic pollen identification visual observation interactions. This makes it ideal for understanding complex ecological networks responses change. is currently being applied assess interactions, survey ecosystem change model spatiotemporal distribution allergenic pollen. Where samples available from past collections, has been used compare contemporary ecosystems. New avenues research possible expansion intraspecific identification, analysis ancient samples, increased use museum herbarium specimens. Ongoing developments sequencing technologies can accelerate progress towards these goals. Global happening rapidly, we anticipate that methods critical evolutionary processes support biodiversity, predicting responding impacts
Language: Английский
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The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 840, P. 156551 - 156551
Published: June 7, 2022
In Europe, honey bees and bumble are among the most important pollinators, there is a growing interest in understanding effects of floral resource availability on their survival. Yet, to date, data nectar pollen supplies available agricultural landscapes still scarce. this paper, we quantify species-, habitat- landscape-scale production Lublin Upland, SE Poland. The per unit area was highest (mean = 2.2-2.6 g/m2) non-forest woody vegetation, field margins fallows, whilst significantly lower amounts were shown be road verges railway embankments 1.3-1.6 g/m2). At landscape scale, natural semi-natural areas (forests meadows/pastures) offered ca. 44% total resources during year. Relatively high (ca. 35% year-round resources) from winter rape, but short-term. Man-made, non-cropped habitats added only 18% mass for pollinators flowering season. However, they provided 66-99% July October. There exists an imbalance throughout Hence, diversity natural, man-made, required support seasonal continuity landscape. Efforts should made secure habitat heterogeneity enhance flower continual pollinators.
Language: Английский
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Ecology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 104(8)
Published: May 26, 2023
Abstract Bees provide important ecological services, and many species are threatened globally, yet our knowledge of wild bee ecology evolution is limited. While evolving from carnivorous ancestors, bees had to develop strategies for coping with limitations imposed on them by a plant‐based diet, nectar providing energy essential amino acids pollen as an extraordinary, protein‐ lipid‐rich food nutritionally similar animal tissues. Both display one characteristic common plants, high ratio potassium sodium (K:Na), potentially leading underdevelopment, health problems, death. We discuss why how the K:Na contributes considering this factor in future studies will new knowledge, more accurately depicting relationship their environments. Such understanding plants function interact needed effectively protect bees.
Language: Английский
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Ecological Indicators, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 156, P. 111140 - 111140
Published: Oct. 27, 2023
Bees are strongly dependent on environmental and climatic conditions. Anthropogenic climate changes mainly responsible for restricted access of bees to food resources. Therefore, this study aimed evaluate the effect most important meteorological variables affecting collection by honey bees. Using electronic beehive scales, remote monitoring daily hive weight 60 colonies from apiaries was performed during three beekeeping seasons. The depended variables, particularly sunshine duration air temperature. topographic (e.g. landscape structure, forest habitat type, share area with plant species attractive bees) spatial proportion forest, arable land, green area) contributed a much lesser extent. Monitoring revealed that conditions affected strongly. In conclusion, long-term bee colony large scale can be source substantial data about impact their resources in order restore conserve environment will meet nutritional needs different
Language: Английский
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Journal of Insect Conservation, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 27(3), P. 361 - 375
Published: April 8, 2023
Language: Английский
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 290(2008)
Published: Oct. 11, 2023
In agricultural landscapes, bees face a variety of stressors, including insecticides and poor-quality food. Although both stressors individually have been shown to affect bumblebee health negatively, few studies focused on stressor interactions, scenario expected in intensively used landscapes. Using the Bombus terrestris , key pollinator we conducted fully factorial laboratory experiment starting at nest initiation. We assessed effects food quality insecticides, alone interaction, traits various levels, some which rarely studied. Pollen with diluted nutrient content (low quality) reduced ovary size delayed colony development. Wing asymmetry, indicating developmental stress, was increased during insecticide exposure interactions poor food, whereas body size. Both their interaction changed workers’ chemical profile worker immune response. Our findings suggest that combined nutritional stress reduce individual thus possibly affecting performance, such as development reproduction, stability plant–pollinator networks. The synergistic highlight need combining risk assessments when studying complex anthropogenic outcomes.
Language: Английский
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Apidologie, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 56(1)
Published: Jan. 2, 2025
Abstract Commercially reared bees provide economically important pollination services for a diversity of crops. Improving their health is both to maximise and avoid possible pathogen spillover or spillback with wild pollinators. Diet quality may directly indirectly affect diverse aspects bumblebee health, including colony development, individual size immune but the impact this remains unclear. Here we investigate experimentally effect diet during development using three diets: (1) standard pollen used in commercial rearing colonies sale, (2) an enhanced comprised wildflower mix that was expected be nutritionally superior (including by having elevated protein content) (3) substitute mixed poorer. The on quantified colony-level measures (colony weight, [number live workers] number dead individuals), individual-level (body size, fat body [proportion weight], total haemocyte count phenoloxidase enzyme activity). significantly affected growth, fed growing larger producing more reproductives than those either poor diet. also resulted were had better health. results show can have effects commercially bumblebees suggest enhancement standard-rearing diets improve
Language: Английский
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Journal of Apicultural Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 12
Published: Jan. 6, 2025
This paper examines the emerging phenomenon of bee tourism and its potential for fostering sustainable development in rural areas. Bee tourism, based on process attributing value to apiculture beekeeping, offers unique experiences visitors while promoting local businesses. Drawing a qualitative study which includes both supply demand sides, interviews with nine honey producers six special interest tourists were made context Catalonia. The article emphasizes opportunities challenges communities, leveraging their cultural natural resources create tourist experiences. In addition, it explores role creativity entrepreneurship crafting engaging offerings highlights need collaboration practices ensure short long-term success. research encourages further exploration as viable strategy
Language: Английский
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Journal of Applied Entomology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Jan. 8, 2025
ABSTRACT Bumblebees, as social species and efficient pollinators, have attracted the attention of researchers governments all over world. However, a comprehensive overview bumblebee research field is lacking. This study delves into bibliometric analysis recent 25 years with bumblebees from 1999 to 2024. Drawing data 4119 publications in Web Science (WoS) database, it showed steady increase number two decades. Countries North America, Europe China formed three main forces. The hotspots frontiers were related decline health bumblebees, including combined effects climate change, agrochemicals, habitat loss fragmentation, parasites disease, monotonous diets competition. Additionally, based on co‐cited references cluster analysis, was concluded that change pesticides will still be focus fields future. Overall, this paper serves an exhaustive resource for individuals working intrigued by bumblebee.
Language: Английский
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Frontiers in Microbiology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15
Published: Jan. 8, 2025
The global decline in biodiversity and insect populations highlights the urgent need to conserve ecosystem functions, such as plant pollination by solitary bees. Human activities, particularly agricultural intensification, pose significant threats these essential services. Changes land use alter resource nest site availability, pesticide exposure other factors impacting richness, diversity, health of bee species. In this study, we investigated yet another facet currently less well context: Microbial communities associated with wild bees play crucial roles larval development, metabolism, immunity overall health. However, drivers dynamics healthy microbiome are still poorly understood, especially regarding direct indirect effects on diversity composition microbial communities. We examined bacterial offspring materials Megachilid trap-nesting bee, Osmia bicornis, along a gradient intensification 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding. Given that landscape composition, climatic conditions, food resources known influence compositions species, hypothesized changes would available for material collection thereby affecting microbiomes their environments. anticipated reduced altered increased which is decrease number resources, including pool floral soil bacteria surrounding environment. As expected, observed shifts nests across varying degrees intensity, differing management types availability flowers. Shannon (larval pollen provision, enclosure) guts decreased increasing intensity. pupae remained unaffected, indicating reorganization during metamorphosis, not significantly influenced resources. Our findings provide new insights into shaping environmental transmission microbiomes. This understanding comprehending impacts intensive developing strategies mitigate effects.
Language: Английский
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