ReviewInsects2021
Supporting Bees in Cities: How Bees Are Influenced by Local and Landscape Features.
Review in Insects, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.
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25 citing papers in PubMed.
- Variation in microbial and plant associations across wild bee families, functional groups, and urban environments.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Article
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- Influence of Environmental Covariates on Pollinator Community Occupancy, Detection, and Richness Across Urban Gardens in Richmond, Virginia, USA.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Bug roads: Modeling the green space connectivity and pollinator habitat in a large city using open GIS data and tools.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- A Note on the Honey Bee Parasitic Phorid Fly (Insects · 2025Article
- Where and What Kind-A Better Understanding of Local and Landscape Features in Planning the Urban Flower Meadows for Supporting Bee Communities.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Monitoring Free-Living Honeybee Colonies in Germany: Insights Into Habitat Preferences, Survival Rates, and Citizen Science Reliability.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Supporting pollinators in urban gardens: floral richness and abundance influence flower visitor interactions regardless of the surrounding landscape.Urban ecosystems · 2025Article
- Nectar and pollen in Acer trees can contribute to improvement of food resources for pollinators.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Toward a Functional Trait Approach to Bee Ecology.Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
- Limited function of road verges as habitat for species connecting plant-bee networks in remnant semi-natural grasslands.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Urbanization-driven environmental shifts cause reduction in aminopeptidase N activity in the honeybee.Conservation physiology · 2024Article
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- Environmental Effects on Bee Microbiota.Microbial ecology · 2023Review
- Urban habitat fragmentation and floral resources shape the occurrence of gut parasites in two bumblebee species.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Native and exotic plants play different roles in urban pollination networks across seasons.Oecologia · 2023Article
- Green roofs and pollinators, useful green spots for some wild bee species (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), but not so much for hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae).Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- A large-scale dataset reveals taxonomic and functional specificities of wild bee communities in urban habitats of Western Europe.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Complex urban environments provideEcology and evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
Urbanization is a major anthropogenic driver of decline for ecologically and economically important taxa including bees. Despite their generally negative impact on pollinators, cities can display a surprising degree of biodiversity compared to other landscapes. The pollinating communities found within these environments, however, tend to be filtered by interacting local and landscape features that comprise the urban matrix. Landscape and local features exert variable influence on pollinators within and across taxa, which ultimately affects community composition in such a way that contributes to functional trait homogenization and reduced phylogenetic diversity. Although previous results are not easily generalizable, bees and pollinators displaying functional trait characteristics such as polylectic diet, cavity-nesting behavior, and later emergence appear most abundant across different examined cities. To preserve particularly vulnerable species, most notably specialists that have become underrepresented within city communities, green spaces like parks and urban gardens have been examined as potential refuges. Such spaces are scattered across the urban matrix and vary in pollinator resource availability. Therefore, ensuring such spaces are optimized for pollinators is imperative. This review examines how urban features affect pollinators in addition to ways these green spaces can be manipulated to promote greater pollinator abundance and diversity.
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