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Supplementary feeding restructures urban bird communities by Galbraith, Josie A., Beggs, Jacqueline R., Jones, Darryl N., Stanley, Margaret C.

“…Food availability is a primary driver of avian population regulation. However, few studies have considered the effects of what is essentially a massive…”
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Plant species dominance increases pollination complementarity and plant reproductive function by Stavert, Jamie R., Bartomeus, Ignasi, Beggs, Jacqueline R., Gaskett, Anne C., Pattemore, David E.

“…Worldwide, anthropogenic change is causing biodiversity loss, disrupting many critical ecosystem functions. Most studies investigating the relationship between…”
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Ecological effects and management of invasive alien Vespidae by Beggs, Jacqueline R, Brockerhoff, Eckehard G, Corley, Juan C, Kenis, Marc, Masciocchi, Maité, Muller, Franck, Rome, Quentin, Villemant, Claire

“…Insect species associated with human goods continue to be accidentally introduced into new locations. A small proportion of these introduced species become…”
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Hairiness: the missing link between pollinators and pollination by Stavert, Jamie R, Liñán-Cembrano, Gustavo, Beggs, Jacqueline R, Howlett, Brad G, Pattemore, David E, Bartomeus, Ignasi

“…Functional traits are the primary biotic component driving organism influence on ecosystem functions; in consequence, traits are widely used in ecological…”
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Emerging threats in urban ecosystems: a horizon scanning exercise by Stanley, Margaret C, Beggs, Jacqueline R, Bassett, Imogen E, Burns, Bruce R, Dirks, Kim N, Jones, Darryl N, Linklater, Wayne L, Macinnis-Ng, Cate, Simcock, Robyn, Souter-Brown, Gayle, Trowsdale, Sam A, Gaston, Kevin J

“…As urbanization intensifies, urban ecosystems are increasingly under pressure from a range of threats. Horizon scanning has the potential to act as an early…”
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High Dietary Niche Overlap Between Non-native and Native Ant Species in Natural Ecosystems by Probert, Anna F., Ward, Darren F., Beggs, Jacqueline R., Bury, Sarah J., Hermans, Syrie M., Lear, Gavin, Stanley, Margaret C.

“…Ants represent a highly diverse and ecologically important group of insects found in almost all terrestrial ecosystems. A subset of ant species have been…”
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Management and eradication options for Queensland fruit fly by Stringer, Lloyd D., Kean, John M., Beggs, Jacqueline R., Suckling, D. Max

“…Several tephritid fruit flies have explosive population growth and a wide host range, resulting in some of the largest impacts on horticultural crops, reducing…”
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Diverse honeydew-consuming fungal communities associated with scale insects by Dhami, Manpreet K, Weir, Bevan S, Taylor, Michael W, Beggs, Jacqueline R

“…Sooty mould fungi are ubiquitous, abundant consumers of insect-honeydew that have been little-studied. They form a complex of unrelated fungi that coexist and…”
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Emerging advances in biosecurity to underpin human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health by Hulme, Philip E., Beggs, Jacqueline R., Binny, Rachelle N., Bray, Jonathan P., Cogger, Naomi, Dhami, Manpreet K., Finlay-Smits, Susanna C., French, Nigel P., Grant, Andrea, Hewitt, Chad L., Jones, Eirian E., Lester, Phil J., Lockhart, Peter J.

“…One Biosecurity is an interdisciplinary approach to policy and research that builds on the interconnections between human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health…”
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Invasion Success and Management Strategies for Social Vespula Wasps by Lester, Philip J, Beggs, Jacqueline R

“…Three species of Vespula have become invasive in Australia, Hawai'i, New Zealand, and North and South America and continue to spread. These social wasp species…”
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A molecular approach to study Hymenoptera diets using wasp nests by Lefort, Marie-Caroline, Beggs, Jacqueline R., Glare, Travis R., Saunders, Thomas E., Doyle, Erin J., Boyer, Stéphane

“…The study of animal diets has benefited from the rise of high-throughput DNA sequencing applied to stomach content or faecal samples. The latter can be fresh…”
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Consuming Parasitized Aphids Alters the Life History and Decreases Predation Rate of Aphid Predator by Liu, Jian-Feng, Wang, Xiu-Qin, Beggs, Jacqueline R, Ou, Hou-Ding, Yu, Xiao-Fei, Shen, Xiu-Xian, Yang, Mao-Fa

“…Intraguild predation interactions have substantial theoretical and practical implications for the dynamics of natural competitor populations used for…”
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Mazes to Study the Effects of Spatial Complexity, Predation and Population Density on Mate Finding by Stringer, Lloyd D, Sullivan, Nicola J, White, Robyn, Jiménez-Pérez, Alfredo, Furlong, Jess, Kean, John M, Beggs, Jacqueline R, Suckling, David Maxwell

“…The difficulty to locate mates and overcome predation can hamper species establishment and population maintenance. The effects of sparseness between…”
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Primary symbiont of the ancient scale insect family Coelostomidiidae exhibits strict cophylogenetic patterns by Dhami, Manpreet K, Buckley, Thomas R, Beggs, Jacqueline R, Taylor, Michael W

“…Bacterial symbionts play a critical role in the physiology, ecology and evolution of a diverse range of insects. Such symbionts with unknown roles in the…”
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Exotic flies maintain pollination services as native pollinators decline with agricultural expansion by Stavert, Jamie R., Pattemore, David E., Bartomeus, Ignasi, Gaskett, Anne C., Beggs, Jacqueline R.

“…1. Globally, conversion of natural habitat to agricultural land is a primary driver of declines in critical ecosystem services, including pollination. However,…”
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Sensory‐based conservation of seabirds: a review of management strategies and animal behaviours that facilitate success by Friesen, Megan R., Beggs, Jacqueline R., Gaskett, Anne C.

“…ABSTRACT Sensory‐based conservation harnesses species' natural communication and signalling behaviours to mitigate threats to wild populations. To evaluate…”
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Honey bee toxicological responses do not accurately predict environmental risk of imidacloprid to a solitary ground-nesting bee species by Kueh Tai, Felicia, Pattemore, David E., Jochym, Mateusz, Beggs, Jacqueline R., Northcott, Grant L., Mortensen, Ashley N.

“…Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are the current model species for pesticide risk assessments, but considering bee diversity, their life histories, and paucity of…”
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Biogeography and anthropogenic impact shape the success of invasive wasps on New Zealand's offshore islands by Schmack, Julia M., Schleuning, Matthias, Ward, Darren F., Beggs, Jacqueline R.

“…Aim The theory of island biogeography predicts that the susceptibility of an island to invasion is determined by its isolation and size. However, many island…”
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DNA metabarcoding of prey reveals spatial, temporal and diet partitioning of an island ecosystem by four invasive wasps by Schmack, Julia Marion, Lear, Gavin, Astudillo‐Garcia, Carmen, Boyer, Stéphane, Ward, Darren F., Beggs, Jacqueline R.

“…Invasive alien species can cause detrimental changes in native ecosystems, but our understanding of the interactions between multiple exotic species is…”
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A scientific note on the transmission of chalkbrood via field collected pollen by Shin-Clayton, Sacchi, Beggs, Jacqueline R., Pattemore, David E., Mortensen, Ashley N.

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