The decline of the bumble bees and cuckoo bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini) of Western and Central Europe

By A. Kosior, W. Celary, P. Olejniczak, J. Fijał, W. Król, W. Solarz, P. Plonka. Oryx, 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Plant Science

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Climatic Risk and Distribution Atlas of European Bumblebees (2015, background): “…pointed out the decline of bumblebee species in Europe (Peters, 1972; Williams, 1982; Rasmont & Mersch, 1988; Williams et al., 1991, 2007, 2013; Goulson et al., 2005, 2008b; Rasmont et al., 2005; Biesmeijer et al., 2006; Kosior et al., 2007; Williams & Osborne, 2009; Carvalheiro et al., 2013).”
The decline of moths in Great Britain: a review of possible causes (2013, background): “In Britain (and elsewhere in north-west Europe), moderate levels of climate warming may bring opportunities for thermally constrained species such as insects and there is strong evidence, for example, that some butterflies have already expanded their ranges and flight periods in response to climate ”
Cryptic species diversity in a widespread bumble bee complex revealed using mitochondrial DNA RFLPs (2008, background): “Given the increased trade in members of the subgenus Bombus as commercial pollinators (Velthuis and van Doorn 2006) and the concern over declines in bumblebees across Europe (e.g. Carvell et al. 2006; Fitzpatrick et al. 2007; Kosior et al. 2007), the need for a rigorous taxonomy of this ecologically”
Diet breadth, coexistence and rarity in bumblebees (2008, background): “…perceived to have suffered declines in abundance and range contractions in the last 70 years across much of western Europe and North America (Williams 1982, 1986, 2005, Rasmont 1995, Kosior 1995, Buchmann and Nabhan 1996, Westrich 1996, Westrich et al. 1998, Goulson 2003a,b, Kosior et al. 2007).”
Economic and ecological implications of geographic bias in pollinator ecology in the light of pollinator declines (2014, background): “However, wild insect pollinators including moths (Fox 2012), butterfl ies (Maes and Van Dyck 2001) and bees (Biesmeijer et al. 2006, Kosior et al. 2007, Cameron et al. 2011) have declined in both abundance and diversity, while, at least in some parts of the world, managed populations of honeybees…”
Long-term global trends in crop yield and production reveal no current pollination shortage but increasing pollinator dependency. (2008, unknown): “For these reasons, we expect that many crops could be susceptible to current declines in pollinator abundance and diversity of wild pollinators [1, 19, 20] and increasingly frequent collapses of managed honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations [2, 3, 21, 22].”
Abundance and diversity of wild bees along gradients of heavy metal pollution (2012, background): “Despite the small number of studies, in a questionnaire undertaken by Kosior et al. (2007), specialists considered heavy metal pollution to be one of the most important factors causing bumblebee decline in Europe (ranked 6th of 16 stressors).”
Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers (2019, background): “A larger study of 60 species and subspecies of bumblebees in central Europe found that 48 have declined in abundance over the past 136 years, with 30% of them being considered threatened and four having become extinct (Kosior et al., 2007).”
How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals (2011, background): “…of the functional importance of biotic pollination, recent evidence for declines in native pollinator abundance and diversity has generated widespread concern (Biesmeijer et al. 2006, Kosior et al. 2007, Colla and Packer 2008, Grixti et al. 2009, Winfree et al. 2009, though see Ghazoul 2005).”
Insect Declines in the Anthropocene. (2020, background): “In Asia, Europe, and North America, several bumblebee species have already been lost to extinction or sit near its brink (20, 21, 60, 92, 100, 179, 202).”
The same, but different: pollen foraging in honeybee and bumblebee colonies (2011, background): “It is now widely recognized that bees are threatened by human activities (Banaszak 1995; Biesmeijer et al. 2006; Kosior et al. 2007; Winfree et al. 2009; Potts et al. 2010; Williams et al. 2010; Cameron et al. 2011).”
Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers (2015, background): “In Europe, many species have undergone substantial range contractions and localized extinction, with four species going extinct throughout the continent (11, 12) (Fig.”
The bumblebees of Sichuan (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini) (2009, background): “…and in geographical range extent, and that this has often been driven in large part by land-use changes (e.g. Williams, 1986; Rasmont & Mersch, 1988; Berezin et al., 1996; Yang, 1999; Hines & Hendrix, 2005; Benton, 2006; Carvell et al., 2006; Fitzpatrick et al., 2007; Kosior et al., 2007).”
Intensification of agriculture, landscape composition and wild bee communities: a large scale study in four European countries. (2010, background): “However numerous studies have documented their recent declines in European agricultural landscapes (Biesmeijer et al., 2006; Kosior et al., 2007) as well as in North America (Grixti et al., 2009).”