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Increased Atmospheric CO 2 Adversely Affects Large Pollinators, but Benefits Small PollinatorsNARA Subscribed
Aim This study examines the impact of atmospheric CO 2 concentration on pollinator communities, focusing on body size‐related responses. It aims to understand how natural CO 2 variability influences pollinator abundance and diversity, and to assess potential ecological consequences for pollination services and ecosystem stability. Location The study was conducted across the Pothwar Plateau in Punjab, Pakistan, covering five di...
Land use change threatens global biodiversity and compromises ecosystem functions, including pollination and food production. Reduced taxonomic α‐diversity is often reported under land use change, yet the impacts could be different at larger spatial scales (i.e., γ‐diversity), either due to reduced β‐diversity amplifying diversity loss or increased β‐diversity dampening diversity loss. Additionally, studies often focus on taxo...
Checking in at bee hotels: trap-nesting occupancy and fitness of cavity-nesting bees in an urbanised biodiversity hotspotNARA Subscribed
With urbanisation leading to loss of nesting resources, and increasing public interest in helping bees, bee hotels (trap-nests) are becoming popularised. However, their success is relatively understudied. The influence of habitat type in determining occupancy and emergence is also poorly known. Over two years across 7 bushland remnant and 7 residential garden sites, trap-nests were installed and completed nests collected month...
DNA metabarcoding identifies urban foraging patterns of oligolectic and polylectic cavity-nesting beesNARA Subscribed
Urbanisation modifies natural landscapes resulting in built-up space that is covered by buildings or hard surfaces and managed green spaces that often substitute native plant species with exotics. Some native bee species have been able to adapt to urban environments, foraging and reproducing in these highly modified areas. However, little is known on how the foraging ecology of native bees is affected by urbanised environments...
Spatial and temporal scale of analysis alter conclusions about the effects of urbanisation on plant–pollinator networksNARA Subscribed
Bipartite networks of flowering plants and their visitors (potential pollinators) are increasingly being used in studies of the structure and function of these ecological interactions. Whilst they hold much promise in understanding the ecology of plant–pollinator networks and how this may be altered by environmental perturbations, like land-use change and invasive species, there is no consensus about the scale at which such ne...
Continental risk assessment for understudied taxa post‐catastrophic wildfire indicates severe impacts on the Australian bee faunaNARA Subscribed
The 2019–2020 Australian Black Summer wildfires demonstrated that single events can have widespread and catastrophic impacts on biodiversity, causing a sudden and marked reduction in population size for many species. In such circumstances, there is a need for conservation managers to respond rapidly to implement priority remedial management actions for the most‐affected species to help prevent extinctions. To date, priority re...
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