ArticleCommunications biology2021
Shifts in honeybee foraging reveal historical changes in floral resources.
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- COI Metabarcoding as a Novel Approach for Assessing the Honey Bee Source of European Honey.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Spatio-temporal variation in pollen collected by honey bees (Apis mellifera) in rural-urban mosaic landscapes in Northern Europe.PloS one · 2025Article
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- High variability in the attractiveness of municipally-planted decorative plants to insects.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Plants, pollinators and their interactions under global ecological change: The role of pollen DNA metabarcoding.Molecular ecology · 2023Article
- The role of seasonality in shaping the interactions of honeybees with other taxa.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Geographical and Seasonal Analysis of the Honeybee Microbiome.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
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- Sequencing our way to more accurate community abundance.Molecular ecology resources · 2023Article
- Complex urban environments provideEcology and evolution · 2022Article
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- Citizen science monitoring reveals links between honeybee health, pesticide exposure and seasonal availability of floral resources.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Environmental DNA analysis as an emerging non-destructive method for plant biodiversity monitoring: a review.AoB PLANTS · 2022Review
- Moths complement bumblebee pollination of red clover: a case for day-and-night insect surveillance.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Preservation methods of honey bee-collected pollen are not a source of bias in ITS2 metabarcoding.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2021Article
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Abstract
Decreasing floral resources as a result of habitat loss is one of the key factors in the decline of pollinating insects worldwide. Understanding which plants pollinators use is vital to inform the provision of appropriate floral resources to help prevent pollinator loss. Using a globally important pollinator, the honeybee, we show how changes in agricultural intensification, crop use and the spread of invasive species, have altered the nectar and pollen sources available in the UK. Using DNA metabarcoding, we analysed 441 honey samples from 2017 and compared these to a nationwide survey of honey samples from 1952. We reveal that shifts in major plants foraged by honeybees are driven by changes in the availability of these plants within the landscape. Improved grasslands are the most widespread habitat type in the UK, and management changes within this habitat have the greatest potential to increase floral resource availability.
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