Influence of pollen origin on performance of Bombus terrestris micro‐colonies

By A. Genissel, P. Aupinel, C. Bressac, J. Taséi, C. Chevrier. 2002

165 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. P. Rijn
2. N. Blüthgen
3. A. Jacquemart
4. S. Leonhardt
5. E. Rotheray
6. Felix L. Wäckers
7. E. Nicholls
8. S. Dorn

In Genetics

1. A. Jacquemart
2. S. Leonhardt
3. E. Rotheray
4. E. Nicholls
5. N. Blüthgen
6. P. Rijn
7. Natalie Hempel de Ibarra
8. Felix L. Wäckers

In Insect Science

1. P. Rijn
2. A. Jacquemart
3. Felix L. Wäckers
4. N. Blüthgen
5. E. Rotheray
6. E. Nicholls
7. S. Leonhardt
8. S. Dorn

Citations in the corpus

• Nectar accessibility determines fitness, flower choice and abundance of hoverflies that provide natural pest control (2016, background): “For bees (both social and solitary), it is arguably very difficult to study the fitness impact of a range of floral resources, due to their social structure or the complex and long (univoltine) life cycle (but see Genissel et al. 2002; Praz, M€uller & Dorn 2008).”
• Floral abundance and resource quality influence pollinator choice (2016, background): “When fed on protein-rich diets, bumblebee colonies are more reproductively successful (G enissel et al., 2002; Kitaoka & Nieh, 2009), and the solitary bee Lasioglossum zephyrum (Roulston & Cane, 2002) and honey bees (Basualdo et al., 2012) produce larger adults.”
• Assessment of pollen rewards by foraging bees (2017, background): “Pollen type has been shown to dramatically affect both the development and survival of young bees and larvae (e.g. Standifer 1967; Schmidt, Thoenes & Levin 1987; Schmidt et al. 1995; Genissel et al. 2002; Roulston & Cane 2002; Tasei & Aupinel 2008; Sedivy, M€ uller & Dorn 2011; Di Pasquale et al. 20”
• Pollen and nectar quality drive the major and minor floral choices of bumble bees (2014, background): “…nitrogen content have been reported to differ widely among plant species (Roulston and Cane 2000) and to be positively correlated with larva weight and development, particularly with more than 20 % total protein content (Génissel et al. 2002; Tasei and Aupinel 2008; Vanderplanck et al. 2014b).”
• Food in a row: urban trees offer valuable floral resources to pollinating insects (2016, background): “A high nitrogen content in pollen, particularly when the total protein content is more than 20 %, is positively correlated with the development of bee larvae (Génissel et al. 2002; Tasei and Aupinel 2008; Vanderplanck et al. 2014b).”
• Closely related pollen generalist bees differ in their ability to develop on the same pollen diet: evidence for physiological adaptations to digest pollen (2011, background): “In fact, pollen of some plant taxa is of poor nutritional quality due to the lack of essential nutrients or the low protein content (Schmidt, Thoenes & Levin 1987; Schmidt et al. 1995; Roulston & Cane 2000; Génissel et al. 2002; Rasmont et al. 2005), or it contains secondary compounds, which are rep”
• The same, but different: pollen foraging in honeybee and bumblebee colonies (2011, background): “They are, however, qualitatively similar (Roulston and Cane 2000; Weiner et al. 2010) with regard to amino acids considered essential for honeybees (according to de Groot 1953) and most likely also bumblebees (Génissel et al. 2002).”