ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Host density drives viral, but not trypanosome, transmission in a key pollinator.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Host ecology and phylogeny shape the temporal dynamics of social bee viromes.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Species traits, landscape quality and floral resource overlap with honeybees determine virus transmission in plant-pollinator networks.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Conservation measures or hotspots of disease transmission? Agri-environment schemes can reduce disease prevalence in pollinator communities.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
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- Complex networks of parasites and pollinators: moving towards a healthy balance.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Mass-flowering monoculture attracts bees, amplifying parasite prevalence.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Agri-environment scheme nectar chemistry can suppress the social epidemiology of parasites in an important pollinator.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Floral traits affecting the transmission of beneficial and pathogenic pollinator-associated microbes.Current opinion in insect science · 2021Review
- Bumble bees in landscapes with abundant floral resources have lower pathogen loads.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Supplemental feeding of wildlife populations can locally increase the density of individuals, which may in turn impact disease dynamics. Flower strips are a widely used intervention in intensive agricultural systems to nutritionally support pollinators such as bees. Using a controlled experimental semi-field design, we asked how density impacts transmission of a virus and a trypanosome parasite in bumblebees. We manipulated bumblebee density by using different numbers of colonies within the same area of floral resource. In high-density compartments, slow bee paralysis virus was transmitted more quickly, resulting in higher prevalence and level of infection in bumblebee hosts. By contrast, there was no impact of density on the transmission of the trypanosome
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