Quantifying and comparing bumblebee nest densities in gardens and countryside habitats

By J. Osborne, Andrew P. Martin, C. Shortall, Alana Todd, Dave Goulson, M. Knight, R. Hale, R. Sanderson. 2007

313 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. N. Williams
2. Dave Goulson
3. R. Winfree
4. S. Potts
5. C. Kremen
6. Henrik G. Smith
7. T. Roulston
8. L. Packer

In Insect Science

1. R. Winfree
2. N. Williams
3. Dave Goulson
4. S. Potts
5. Henrik G. Smith
6. C. Kremen
7. T. Roulston
8. L. Packer

In Plant Science

1. Dave Goulson
2. N. Williams
3. R. Winfree
4. S. Potts
5. Henrik G. Smith
6. Ben Darvill
7. L. Packer
8. A. Persson

Citations in the corpus

• Opportunities to enhance pollinator biodiversity in solar parks (2021, background): “In addition to providing foraging resources, hedgerows support breeding pollinators [105,106], act as structural elements affecting pollinator movement [107,108] and provide shelter and a range of microclimates for pollinators [61,71].”
• Ecological and life-history traits predict bee species responses to environmental disturbances (2010, background): “Some temperate social species, namely bumble bees, nest in existing cavities and although these substrates are available in certain disturbed landscapes they are not common in intensively cultivated areas (Osborne et al., 2008).”
• Effects of land use at a landscape scale on bumblebee nest density and survival (2010, methodology): “Modern agricultural landscapes consist of large areas of monocultures separated by field margins and interspersed by occasional patches of non-cropped areas (e.g. woodland) and clusters of housing with gardens (Osborne et al. 2008a).”
• Effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on non-target invertebrates (2014, unknown): “With impacts more pronounced when bees have to leave the colony, one might predict more marked effects when bees are foraging naturally, travelling kilometres across the landscape (Knight et al. 2005; Osborne et al. 2008).”
• Local habitat characteristics but not landscape urbanization drive pollinator visitation and native plant pollination in forest remnants (2013, background): “…by suburban and non-industrial urban areas, which in other regions have be shown to have abundant and diverse flower resources from gardens, parks and semi-natural habitats that support bee populations (Goulson et al., 2002; McFrederick and LeBuhn, 2006; Osborne et al., 2008; Tommasi et al., 2004).”
• Gardens benefit bees and enhance pollination in intensively managed farmland (2011, background): “a diversity of nesting substrates and continuous supply and diversity of nectar and pollen (Fussell and Corbet, 1992; Osborne et al., 2008), they may complement more ‘‘natural’’ habitats for pollinators in otherwise impoverished environments.”
• Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers (2015, background): “, (36)] and can boost bee numbers in adjacent farmland (58).”
• Landscape impacts on pollinator communities in temperate systems: evidence and knowledge gaps (2017, unknown): “…in urban areas; colony growth rate and nest density of bumblebees in domestic gardens can exceed that found in rural and agricultural habitats (e.g. Osborne et al. 2008), with diverse urban bee communities also providing a benefit by pollinating urban crops and garden plants (e.g. Lowenstein,…”
• Factors affecting bee communities in forest openings and adjacent mature forest (2017, background): “Forests cover roughly one third of the North American land area (World Bank, 2016) and silviculture is widespread (Oswalt and Smith, 2014).”