Search Results - "Albrecht, Matthias"
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The worldwide importance of honey bees as pollinators in natural habitats
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (10-01-2018)“…The western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most frequent floral visitor of crops worldwide, but quantitative knowledge of its role as a pollinator outside…”
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High effectiveness of tailored flower strips in reducing pests and crop plant damage
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (07-09-2015)“…Providing key resources to animals may enhance both their biodiversity and the ecosystem services they provide. We examined the performance of annual flower…”
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Unexpectedly efficient CO2 hydrogenation to higher hydrocarbons over non-doped Fe2O3
Published in Applied catalysis. B, Environmental (05-05-2017)“…[Display omitted] •CO2 hydrogenation to higher hydrocarbons over undoped Fe2O3.•Preparation method of Fe2O3 strongly affects CH4 selectivity and catalyst…”
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Diverse pollinator communities enhance plant reproductive success
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (07-12-2012)“…Understanding the functional consequences of biodiversity loss is a major goal of ecology. Animal-mediated pollination is an essential ecosystem function and…”
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Morphology and temporal evolution of ground-nesting bee burrows created by solitary and social species quantified through X-ray imaging
Published in Geoderma (01-10-2023)“…[Display omitted] •Repeated X-ray imaging of wild ground-nesting bee nests in their natural habitat.•Quantification of temporal evolution of solitary and…”
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Tailored flower strips promote natural enemy biodiversity and pest control in potato crops
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-08-2016)“…1. Sown flower strips are increasingly implemented within agri-environment schemes (AES) to increase functional biodiversity and ecosystem services such as…”
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Seasonal shifts and complementary use of pollen sources by two bees, a lacewing and a ladybeetle species in European agricultural landscapes
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-11-2019)“…Continuous availability of food resources, such as pollen, is vital for many insects that provide pollination and pest control services to agriculture…”
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Floral resource distribution and fitness consequences for two solitary bee species in agricultural landscapes
Published in Basic and applied ecology (01-12-2022)“…•Reproduction of two Osmia species increased with landscape-wide pollen availability.•Woody semi-natural habitats contributed disproportionately to the Osmia…”
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Different roles of concurring climate and regional land-use changes in past 40 years’ insect trends
Published in Nature communications (12-12-2022)“…Climate and land-use changes are main drivers of insect declines, but their combined effects have not yet been quantified over large spatiotemporal scales. We…”
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Fungicide and insecticide exposure adversely impacts bumblebees and pollination services under semi-field conditions
Published in Environment international (01-12-2021)“…•Field realistic studies on impacts of novel insecticides and fungicides on bees are rare.•Closer (sulfoxaflor insecticide) reduced colony growth, colony size…”
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Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change
Published in Nature communications (23-12-2016)“…Impacts of climate change on individual species are increasingly well documented, but we lack understanding of how these effects propagate through ecological…”
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The Swiss Agri-Environment Scheme Enhances Pollinator Diversity and Plant Reproductive Success in Nearby Intensively Managed Farmland
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-08-2007)“…1. Agri-environment schemes attempt to counteract the loss of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services such as pollination and natural pest control in…”
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Plant-pollinator network assembly along the chronosequence of a glacier foreland
Published in Oikos (01-10-2010)“…Forelands of retreating glaciers offer an ideal model system to study community assembly processes during primary succession. As plants colonize the area that…”
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Porous silicon carbide as a support for Mn/Na/W/SiC catalyst in the oxidative coupling of methane
Published in Applied catalysis. A, General (05-05-2017)“…[Display omitted] •Calcination in N2 preserves the supports structure better than calcination in air.•The presence of Na in catalyst promotes SiC oxidation and…”
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Specialization of Mutualistic Interaction Networks Decreases toward Tropical Latitudes
Published in Current biology (23-10-2012)“…Species-rich tropical communities are expected to be more specialized than their temperate counterparts [1–3]. Several studies have reported increasing biotic…”
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Estimation of the visual contribution to standing balance using virtual reality
Published in Scientific reports (14-02-2023)“…Sensory perturbations are a valuable tool to assess sensory integration mechanisms underlying balance. Implemented as systems-identification approaches, they…”
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Flower Mapping in Grasslands With Drones and Deep Learning
Published in Frontiers in plant science (09-02-2022)“…Manual assessment of flower abundance of different flowering plant species in grasslands is a time-consuming process. We present an automated approach to…”
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No evidence for impaired solitary bee fitness following pre-flowering sulfoxaflor application alone or in combination with a common fungicide in a semi-field experiment
Published in Environment international (01-06-2022)“…[Display omitted] •Among first semi-field study of novel insecticide sulfoxaflor on solitary bees.•No negative impact of pre-flowering application of…”
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Interaction Diversity within Quantified Insect Food Webs in Restored and Adjacent Intensively Managed Meadows
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-09-2007)“…1. We studied the community and food-web structure of trap-nesting insects in restored meadows and at increasing distances within intensively managed grassland…”
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Predicting the effect of habitat modification on networks of interacting species
Published in Nature communications (06-10-2017)“…A pressing challenge for ecologists is predicting how human-driven environmental changes will affect the complex pattern of interactions among species in a…”
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