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Holzschuh A, Dainese M, González-Varo JP, Mudri-Stojnić S, Riedinger V, Rundlöf M, Scheper J, Wickens JB, Wickens VJ, Bommarco R, Kleijn D, Potts SG, Roberts SPM, Smith HG, Vilà M, Vujić A, Steffan-Dewenter I (2016) Mass-flowering crops dilute pollinator abundance in agricultural landscapes across Europe. Ecology Letters 19: 1228-1236. DOI
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Hopfenmüller S, Steffan-Dewenter I, Holzschuh A (2014) Trait-specific responses of wild bee communities to landscape composition, configuration and local factors. PLoS One 9(8): e104439. DOI
Jha, S. & Kremen, C. (2013) Resource diversity and landscape-level homogeneity drive native bee foraging. PNAS 110: 555-558. DOI
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Kleijn, D., Linders, T., Stip, A., Biesmeijer, J.C., Wäckers, F.L. & Bukovinszky, T. (2018) Scaling up effects of measures mitigating pollinator loss from local- to landscape-level population responses. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9: 1727–1738. DOI
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Koh I., Lonsdorf E. V., Williams N. M., Brittain C., Isaacs R., Gibbs J., Ricketts T. H. (2016) Modelling the status, trends, and impacts of wild bee abundance in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113: 140-145. DOI
Lajos, K., Demeter, I., Mák, R., Balog, A., Sárospataki, M. (2021) Preliminary assessment of cavity-nesting Hymenopterans in a low-intensity agricultural landscape in Transylvania. Ecology and Evolution 11: 11903-11914. DOI
Lajos, K., Samu, F., Bihaly, Á.D., Fülöp, D., Sárospataki, M. (2021) Landscape structure affects the sunflower visiting frequency of insect pollinators. Scientific Reports 11: DOI
Li, P., Kleijn, D., Badenhausser, I. Zaragoza-Trello, C., Gross, N., Raemakers, I. & Scheper, J. (2020) The relative importance of green infrastructure as refuge habitat for pollinators increases with local land-use intensity. Journal of Applied Ecology 57: 1494-1503. DOI
McMahon D.P., Fürst M.A., Casper J., Theodorou P., Brown M.J.F., Paxton R.J. (2015) A sting in the spit: widespread cross-infection of multiple RNA viruses across wild and managed bees. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 615-624.
Monticelli, L. S., Labonté, A., Turpin, M., Biju-Duval, L., Felten, E., Laurent, E., Matejicek, A., Vieren, E., Deytieux, V., Cordeau, S. & Vanbergen, A. J. (2022) Agroecological farming, flowering phenology and the pollinator–herbivore–parasitoid nexus regulate non-crop plant reproduction. Journal of Applied Ecology 59: 2046– 2058. DOI
Potts, S.G., Dauber, J., Hochkirch, A., Oteman, B., Roy, D.B., Ahrné, K., Biesmeijer, K., Breeze, T.D., Carvell, C., Ferreira, C., FitzPatrick, Ú., Isaac, N.J.B., Kuussaari, M., Ljubomirov, T., Maes, J., Ngo, H., Pardo, A., Polce, C., Quaranta, M., Settele, J., Sorg, M., Stefanescu, C., Vujić, A. (2021) Proposal for an EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. Publications Office of the European Union DOI
Powney, G. D., Carvell, C., Edwards, M., Morris, R. K. A., Roy, H. E., Woodcock, B. A. & Isaac, N. J. B. (2019) Widespread losses of pollinating insects in Britain. Nature Communications 10: 1018.
Proesmans, W., Albrecht, M., Gajda, A., Neumann, P., Paxton, R. J., Pioz, M., Polzin, C., Schweiger, O., Settele, J., Szentgyörgyi, H., Thulke, H.-H. & Vanbergen, A. J. (2021) Pathways for Novel Epidemiology: Plant–Pollinator–Pathogen Networks and Global Change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 36: 623-636. DOI
Pywell, R. F., Heard, M. S., Woodcock, B. A., Hinsley, S., Ridding, L., Nowakowski, M. & Bullock, J. M. (2015) Wildlife-friendly farming increases crop yield: evidence for ecological intensification. Proc Biol Sci 282: 20151740. DOI
Redhead J. W., Woodcock B. A., Pocock M. J. O., Pywell R. F., Vanbergen A. J., Oliver T. H. (2018) Potential landscape-scale pollinator networks across Great Britain: structure, stability and influence of agricultural land cover. Ecology Letters DOI
Redlich S, Zhang J, Benjamin C, Singh Dhillon M, Englmeier J, Ewald J, Fricke U, Ganuza C, Haensel M, Hovestadt T, Kollmann J, Koellner T, Kübert-Flock C, Kunstmann H, Menzel A, Moning C, Peters W, Riebl R, Rummler T, Rojas-Botero S, Tobisch C, Uhler J, Uphus L, Müller J, Steffan-Dewenter I (2021) Disentangling effects of climate and land use on biodiversity and ecosystem services—A multi-scale experimental design. British Ecological Society 00: 1-14. DOI
Ricketts T. H., Lonsdorf E. (2013) Mapping the margin: Comparing marginal values of tropical forest remnants for pollination services. Ecological Applications 23: 1113–1123. DOI
S.G. Potts, V. L. Imperatriz-Fonseca, H. T. Ngo, J. C. Biesmeijer, T. D. Breeze, L. V. Dicks, L. A. Garibaldi, R. Hill, J. Settele, A. J. Vanbergen, M. A. Aizen, S. A. Cunningham, C. Eardley, B. M. Freitas, N. Gallai, P.G. Kevan, A. Kovács-Hostyánszki, P.K. Kwapong, J. Li, X. Li., D.J. Martins, G. Nates-Parra, J.S. Pettis, R. Rader, and B. F. Viana (eds.). (2016) Summary for policymakers of the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on pollinators, pollination and food production. Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Bonn, Germany DOI
Schenk M, Krauss J, Holzschuh A (2018) Desynchronizations in bee-plant interactions cause severe fitness losses in solitary bees. Journal of Animal Ecology 87: 139-149. DOI
Sliva F.D.S., Carvalheiro L.G., Aguierrez-Guttiez J., Lucotte M., Guidoni-Martins K., and Mertens F. (2021) Virtual pollination trade uncovers global dependence on biodiversity of developing countries. Science Advances 7: DOI
Tremlett C.J., Peh K.S.H, Zamora-Gutierrez V. and Schaafsma M (2021) Value and benefit distribution of pollination services provided by bats in the production of cactus fruits in central Mexico. Ecosystem Services 47: 101-197. DOI