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A method for mining combined data from in-hive sensors, weather and apiary inspections to forecast the health status of honey bee colonies by Rafael Braga, Antonio, G. Gomes, Danielo, Rogers, Richard, E. Hassler, Edgar, M. Freitas, Breno, A. Cazier, Joseph

“…•An accurate prediction method forecast the honeybee colony health status.•Honeybees health status from homeostasis, weight, inspections, and weather…”
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Size and Sex-Dependent Shrinkage of Dutch Bees during One-and-a-Half Centuries of Land-Use Change by Oliveira, Mikail O, Freitas, Breno M, Scheper, Jeroen, Kleijn, David

“…Land-use change and global warming are important factors driving bee decline, but it is largely unknown whether these drivers have resulted in changes in the…”
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Thermoregulation in the large carpenter bee Xylocopa frontalis in the face of climate change in the Neotropics by de Farias-Silva, Felipe Jackson, Freitas, Breno M.

“…There is evidence that climate change may worsen the ecological conditions needed by many pollinator species for their survival; however, little is known about…”
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Bees for development: Brazilian survey reveals how to optimize stingless beekeeping by Jaffé, Rodolfo, Pope, Nathaniel, Torres Carvalho, Airton, Madureira Maia, Ulysses, Blochtein, Betina, de Carvalho, Carlos Alfredo Lopes, Carvalho-Zilse, Gislene Almeida, Freitas, Breno Magalhães, Menezes, Cristiano, Ribeiro, Márcia de Fátima, Venturieri, Giorgio Cristino, Imperatriz-Fonseca, Vera Lucia

“…Stingless bees are an important asset to assure plant biodiversity in many natural ecosystems, and fulfill the growing agricultural demand for pollination…”
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Standard methods for pollination research with Apis mellifera by Delaplane, Keith S, Dag, Arnon, Danka, Robert G, Freitas, Breno M, Garibaldi, Lucas A, Goodwin, R Mark, Hormaza, Jose I

“…In this chapter we present a synthesis of recommendations for conducting field experiments with honey bees in the context of agricultural pollination. We begin…”
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Don’t stay out too long! Thermal tolerance of the stingless bees Melipona subnitida decreases with increasing exposure time to elevated temperatures by Maia-Silva, Camila, da Silva Pereira, Jaciara, Freitas, Breno M., Hrncir, Michael

“…In hot climates, foraging bees risk overheating during food collection. Here, we investigated influence of ambient temperature on the foraging activity in…”
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A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination by Brown, Mark J F, Dicks, Lynn V, Paxton, Robert J, Baldock, Katherine C R, Barron, Andrew B, Chauzat, Marie-Pierre, Freitas, Breno M, Goulson, Dave, Jepsen, Sarina, Kremen, Claire, Li, Jilian, Neumann, Peter, Pattemore, David E, Potts, Simon G, Schweiger, Oliver, Seymour, Colleen L, Stout, Jane C

“…Background. Pollinators, which provide the agriculturally and ecologically essential service of pollination, are under threat at a global scale. Habitat loss…”
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Negative impacts of dominance on bee communities: Does the influence of invasive honey bees differ from native bees? by Garibaldi, Lucas A., Pérez-Méndez, Nestor, Cordeiro, Guaraci D., Hughes, Alice, Orr, Michael, Alves-dos-Santos, Isabel, Freitas, Breno M., de Oliveira, Favízia Freitas, LeBuhn, Gretchen, Bartomeus, Ignasi, Aizen, Marcelo A., Andrade, Patricia B., Blochtein, Betina, Boscolo, Danilo, Drumond, Patricia M., Gaglianone, Maria Cristina, Gemmill-Herren, Barbara, Halinski, Rosana, Krug, Cristiane, Maués, Márcia Motta, Kiill, Lucia H. Piedade, Pinheiro, Mardiore, Pires, Carmen S. S., Viana, Blandina Felipe

“…Invasive species can reach high abundances and dominate native environments. One of the most impressive examples of ecological invasions is the spread of the…”
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Pollinator size and its consequences: Robust estimates of body size in pollinating insects by Kendall, Liam K., Rader, Romina, Gagic, Vesna, Cariveau, Daniel P., Albrecht, Matthias, Baldock, Katherine C. R., Freitas, Breno M., Hall, Mark, Holzschuh, Andrea, Molina, Francisco P., Morten, Joanne M., Pereira, Janaely S., Portman, Zachary M., Roberts, Stuart P. M., Rodriguez, Juanita, Russo, Laura, Sutter, Louis, Vereecken, Nicolas J., Bartomeus, Ignasi

“…Body size is an integral functional trait that underlies pollination‐related ecological processes, yet it is often impractical to measure directly. Allometric…”
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Gaussian Mixture Descriptors Learner by Freitas, Breno L., Silva, Renato M., Almeida, Tiago A.

“…In recent decades, various machine learning methods have been proposed to address classification problems. However, most of them do not support incremental (or…”
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Psychological inflexibility in overweight and obese people from the perspective of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) by Finger, Igor da Rosa, de Freitas, Breno Irigoyen, Oliveira, Margareth da Silva

“…Purpose To identify the psychological inflexibility (PI) processes (experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, poor contact with the present moment, unclear…”
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Evidence of Nest Reactivation and Perennial Colonies in the Neotropical Bumble Bee Bombus brevivillus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini) by Oliveira, Mikail Olinda, Meneses, Hiara Marques, Nogueira, David Silva, Gomes, Ângela Maria da Silva, Cavalcante, Marcelo Casimiro, Freitas, Breno Magalhães

“…Bombus brevivillus  Franklin is a Neotropical Bombus species whose colonies are disappearing from most of its native range, and little is known about its…”
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Deforestation narrows pollen diet diversity of generalist orchid bees by Boff, Samuel, da Luz, Cynthia Fernandes Pinto, Raizer, Josué, Pinto, Gercy S., Santos, Larysson F., Freitas, Breno M., da Silva, Claudia Inês, Quezada-Euàn, J. Javier G., Soro, Antonella, Alves-dos-Santos, Isabel

“…Orchid bee species are important pollinators in the Neotropics. While male orchid bees are known to have a close interaction with odor-rewarding flowers,…”
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Pesticide Exposure Assessment Paradigm for Stingless Bees by Cham, Karina O, Nocelli, Roberta C. F, Borges, Leandro O, Viana-Silva, Flávia Elizabeth C, Tonelli, Carlos Augusto M, Malaspina, Osmar, Menezes, Cristiano, Rosa-Fontana, Annelise S, Blochtein, Betina, Freitas, Breno M, Pires, Carmen Silvia S, Oliveira, Favízia F, Contrera, Felipe Andres L, Torezani, Karoline R. S, Ribeiro, Márcia de Fátima, Siqueira, Maria A. L, Rocha, Maria Cecília L. S. A

“…Although the importance of bees as the pollinators responsible for maintaining gene flow for many native and cultivated plants in ecosystems around the world…”
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Differences in the Chemical Composition of Melon (Cucumis melo L.) Nectar Explain Flower Gender Preference by Its Pollinator, Apis mellifera by Fernandes, Nayanny, Luz, Lícia, Alves Filho, Elenilson, de Aragão, Fernando Antonio, Zocolo, Guilherme, Freitas, Breno

“…Melon is a pollinator-dependent crop that relies mainly on bees to set fruits. However, manselected varieties vary in their attractiveness to flower visitors,…”
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Landscape genomics to the rescue of a tropical bee threatened by habitat loss and climate change by Jaffé, Rodolfo, Veiga, Jamille C., Pope, Nathaniel S., Lanes, Éder C. M., Carvalho, Carolina S., Alves, Ronnie, Andrade, Sónia C. S., Arias, Maria C., Bonatti, Vanessa, Carvalho, Airton T., Castro, Marina S., Contrera, Felipe A. L., Francoy, Tiago M., Freitas, Breno M., Giannini, Tereza C., Hrncir, Michael, Martins, Celso F., Oliveira, Guilherme, Saraiva, Antonio M., Souza, Bruno A., Imperatriz‐Fonseca, Vera L.

“…Habitat degradation and climate change are currently threatening wild pollinators, compromising their ability to provide pollination services to wild and…”
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A cluster-classification method for accurate mining of seasonal honey bee patterns by Rafael Braga, Antonio, G. Gomes, Danielo, M. Freitas, Breno, A. Cazier, Joseph

“…Bees are the main pollinators of most wild plant species and insect-pollinated crops and are essential for both plant ecosystems maintenance and humans food…”
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Introducing nests of the oil-collecting bee Centris analis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Centridini) for pollination of acerola (Malpighia emarginata) increases yield by Magalhães, Celso B, Freitas, Breno M

“…This study aimed to test the feasibility and effectiveness of introducing trap nests inhabited by the oil-collecting bee Centris (Heterocentris) analis on…”
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Diversity, threats and conservation of native bees in the Neotropics by Freitas, Breno M, Imperatriz-Fonseca, Vera Lúcia, Medina, Luis M, Kleinert, Astrid de Matos Peixoto, Galetto, Leonardo, Nates-Parra, Guiomar, Quezada-Euán, J. Javier G

“…The Neotropics bee fauna is very rich with 5000 recognised species, including 33 genera (391 species) of Meliponini, but it is estimated to be at least three…”
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A new species of Paratrigona Schwarz, 1938 from northeastern Brazil, with notes on the type material of Melipona lineata Lepeletier, 1836 (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Apidae) by Oliveira, Favízia Freitas de, Madella-Auricchio, Cláudia Renata, Freitas, Breno Magalhães

“…A distinctive new species of the Neotropical stingless bee genus Paratrigona Schwarz from northeastern Brazil, previously considered as a variation within P…”
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