The Value of Uncropped Field Margins For Foraging Bumblebees

By A. Kells, John M Holland, Dave Goulson. Journal of Insect Conservation, 2001

116 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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Citations in the corpus

• Larger wildflower plantings increase natural enemy density, diversity, and biological control of sentinel prey, without increasing herbivore density (2012, unknown): “…populations of insects (Zurbrügg & Frank, 2006), and therefore manipulation of structurally resource-poor habitats through the addition of flowering plants and grasses can increase beneficial insect populations in agricultural landscapes (Long et al., 1998; Kells et al., 2001; Rebek et al., 2005).”
• Comparing the efficacy of agri‐environment schemes to enhance bumble bee abundance and diversity on arable field margins (2006, unknown): “Initial assessments of these management options suggested that the potential benefits for bumble bees were mixed ( Kells, Holland & Goulson 2001; Kleijn et al . 2001; Goulson et al . 2002), despite positive effects being recognized for other taxa.”
• Relationships between wild bees, hoverflies and pollination success in apple orchards with different landscape contexts (2016, unknown): “On the one hand, semi-natural habitats provide potential nesting sites 86 and overwintering habitats (Kells et al., 2001; Kells & Goulson, 2003), nectar and pollen 87 sources via flowering plants (Kraemer & Favi, 2005; Laubertie et al.”
• Pollination reservoirs for wild bee habitat enhancement in cropping systems: a review (2017, unknown): “Studies in Europe compared the attractiveness of flowers to pollinators (Carvell 2002; Carvell et al. 2007, 2006; Fabian 2013; Haaland and Gyllin 2010; Kells, Holland, and Goulson 2001; Lye et al. 2009; Pywell 2005; Pywell et al. 2011, 2006).”
• Diet breadth, coexistence and rarity in bumblebees (2008, unknown): “Yet four of them have short tongues of very similar length (Williams 1989, Goulson et al. 1998, Kells et al. 2001).”
• Preferred nesting sites of bumblebee queens (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in agroecosystems in the UK (2003, unknown): “Conservation of such areas should aid not only bumblebees, but many other species of fauna as well (Kells et al., 2001).”
• Opportunities to enhance pollinator biodiversity in solar parks (2021, unknown): “relative to cropped areas rather than the establishment method [54, 129].”
• Providing foraging resources for bumblebees in intensively farmed landscapes (2005, unknown): “Significantly higher numbers of bumblebees visited non-crop, naturally regenerated field margins compared with conservation headlands (Kells et al., 2001).”