Rarity and decline in bumblebees - : A test of causes and correlates in the Irish fauna

By Ú. Fitzpatrick, T. Murray, R. Paxton, J. Breen, D. Cotton, Veronica Santorum, Mark J. F. Brown. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Interacting effects of farming practice and landscape context on bumble bees (2008, background): “…in rarity between bumble bee species is not clear, but has been attributed to differences in species traits such as diet (Goulson and Darvill, 2004), tongue length (Goulson et al., 2005), range size (Williams, 2005), foraging range (Benton, 2006) and emergence time (Fitzpatrick et al., 2007).”
Sown wildflower strips for insect conservation: a review (2011, background): “Bumblebees, for example, have decreased throughoutNorthern andCentral Europe (Backman&Tiainen, 2002; Mand et al., 2002; Carvell et al., 2006a, 2007; Fitzpatrick et al., 2007; Kosior et al., 2007; Goulson et al., 2008).”
The same, but different: pollen foraging in honeybee and bumblebee colonies (2011, background): “While nectar represents the major energy source of adult bees, pollen is considered the essential component of bee nutrition as it is consumed by both adult bees and larvae (Haydak 1970; Dietz 1992).”
Evidence for decline in eastern North American bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with special focus on Bombus affinis Cresson (2008, background): “Second, it seems to have declined rapidly throughout its range over the past decade (Berenbaum et al. 2007), despite numerous studies which suggest it was historically common and ubiquitous in eastern North America (Leonard 1928; Macior 1966; Macfarlane 1974; Fisher 1983; Bregazzi and Laverty 1992”
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).”
Cryptic species diversity in a widespread bumble bee complex revealed using mitochondrial DNA RFLPs (2008, background): “…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 and economically important group is becoming…”
Pollination services provided to small and large highbush blueberry fields by wild and managed bees (2010, background): “The combined effect of these practices is expected to reduce the suitability of such fields for wild bees, thereby limiting the services they can provide to nearby crop fields (Corbet, Saville & Osborne 1994; Steffan-Dewenter & Tscharntke 1999; Carvell et al. 2006; Kleijn & van Langevelde 2006; Fitz”
The geometric mean of relative abundance indices : a biodiversity measure with a difference (2011, background): “However, rare or declining species, such as some pollinators (Fitzpatrick et al. 2007), may play important functional roles.”
Relationships between wild bees, hoverflies and pollination success in apple orchards with different landscape contexts (2016, background): “, 2008), agricultural intensification (Kearns et al., 1998; Steffan-Dewenter et al., 2005; Fitzpatrick et al., 2006; Memmott et al., 2007) and landscape fragmentation (Aizen & Feinsinger, 2003; Diekötter & Crist, 2013), which leads to less effective pollination and reduces agricultural production (F”
Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “, 2011), and late-season species have declined more than early-season species (Fitzpatrick et al., 2007).”
The effect of grazing on bumblebees in the high rangelands of the eastern Tibetan Plateau of Sichuan (2008, background): “) in agricultural systems (e.g. Williams 1986; Rasmont 1988; Dramstad and Fry 1995; Bäckman and Tiainen 2002; Croxton et al. 2002; Pywell et al. 2005; Benton 2006; Fitzpatrick et al. 2007).”
Phenology of farmland floral resources reveals seasonal gaps in nectar availability for bumblebees (2019, background): “…consistent with Balfour, Ollerton, Castellanos, and Ratnieks (2018) who found significantly greater numbers of extinctions in late‐summer flying British pollinator species, and Fitzpatrick et al. (2007), who found a disproportionate decline in late‐emerging bumblebee species in Ireland and Britain.”
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].”
Nutritional stress due to habitat loss may explain recent honeybee colony collapses. (2009, background): “Some studies showing that developed land such as urban and residential areas provide suitable habitats for native bees (Frankie et al., 2005; Cane et al., 2006; Winfree et al., 2007) have been largely misconstrued as all bees being quite adaptable to anthropogenic land use patterns.”