Search Results - "Rundlöf, Maj"
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Can Costs of Pesticide Exposure for Bumblebees Be Balanced by Benefits from a Mass-Flowering Crop?
Published in Environmental science & technology (17-12-2019)“…Mass-flowering crops provide forage for bees but also contain pesticides. Such pesticide exposure can harm bees, but our understanding of how this cost is…”
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Neonicotinoid Insecticides and Their Impacts on Bees: A Systematic Review of Research Approaches and Identification of Knowledge Gaps
Published in PloS one (2015)“…It has been suggested that the widespread use of neonicotinoid insecticides threatens bees, but research on this topic has been surrounded by controversy. In…”
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The effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield: a quantitative synthesis
Published in Ecology letters (01-10-2020)“…Floral plantings are promoted to foster ecological intensification of agriculture through provisioning of ecosystem services. However, a comprehensive…”
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Does conservation on farmland contribute to halting the biodiversity decline?
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-09-2011)“…Biodiversity continues to decline, despite the implementation of international conservation conventions and measures. To counteract biodiversity loss, it is…”
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Pesticide Exposure and Effects on Non-Apis Bees
Published in Annual review of entomology (25-01-2024)“…Bees are essential pollinators of many crops and wild plants, and pesticide exposure is one of the key environmental stressors affecting their health in…”
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Integrated pest and pollinator management – expanding the concept
Published in Frontiers in ecology and the environment (01-06-2021)“…The objective of integrated pest and pollinator management (IPPM) is to co-manage for pest control and pollination goals. Departing from the well-established…”
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Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (05-01-2016)“…Wild and managed bees are well documented as effective pollinators of global crops of economic importance. However, the contributions by pollinators other than…”
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Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation
Published in Nature communications (16-06-2015)“…There is compelling evidence that more diverse ecosystems deliver greater benefits to people, and these ecosystem services have become a key argument for…”
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Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (29-03-2013)“…The diversity and abundance of wild insect pollinators have declined in many agricultural landscapes. Whether such declines reduce crop yields, or are…”
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A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems
Published in Ecology letters (01-05-2013)“…Bees provide essential pollination services that are potentially affected both by local farm management and the surrounding landscape. To better understand…”
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Clothianidin seed-treatment has no detectable negative impact on honeybee colonies and their pathogens
Published in Nature communications (11-02-2019)“…Interactions between multiple stressors have been implicated in elevated honeybee colony losses. Here, we extend our landscape-scale study on the effects of…”
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Seed coating with a neonicotinoid insecticide negatively affects wild bees
Published in Nature (London) (07-05-2015)“…Neonicotinoid seed coating is associated with reduced density of wild bees, as well as reduced nesting of solitary bees and reduced colony growth and…”
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Seed-coating of rapeseed (Brassica napus) with the neonicotinoid clothianidin affects behaviour of red mason bees (Osmia bicornis) and pollination of strawberry flowers (Fragaria × ananassa)
Published in PloS one (08-09-2022)“…Neonicotinoid insecticides applied to flowering crops can have negative impacts on bees, with implications for crop pollination. To assess if exposure to the…”
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Drastic historic shifts in bumble-bee community composition in Sweden
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-01-2012)“…The species richness of flower-visiting insects has declined in past decades, raising concerns that the ecosystem service they provide by pollinating crops and…”
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Mass-flowering crops dilute pollinator abundance in agricultural landscapes across Europe
Published in Ecology letters (01-10-2016)“…Mass‐flowering crops (MFCs) are increasingly cultivated and might influence pollinator communities in MFC fields and nearby semi‐natural habitats (SNHs)…”
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Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (31-03-2021)“…While an increasing number of studies indicate that the range, diversity and abundance of many wild pollinators has declined, the global area of…”
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Calibration of a bumble bee foraging model using Approximate Bayesian Computation
Published in Ecological modelling (01-03-2023)“…1. Challenging calibration of complex models can be approached by using prior knowledge on the parameters. However, the natural choice of Bayesian inference…”
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The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe
Published in Ecology letters (01-07-2019)“…Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity and ecosystem services is a key aim of a sustainable agriculture. However, how the spatial arrangement…”
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Late-season mass-flowering red clover increases bumble bee queen and male densities
Published in Biological conservation (01-04-2014)“…•Agricultural landscape often lack spatiotemporal continuity in forage for bees.•We examine whether adding late-season flowering clover affects bee…”
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Pesticides and pollinators: A socioecological synthesis
Published in The Science of the total environment (20-04-2019)“…The relationship between pesticides and pollinators, while attracting no shortage of attention from scientists, regulators, and the public, has proven…”
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