Local and landscape-level floral resources explain effects of wildflower strips on wild bees across four European countries

By J. Scheper, R. Bommarco, A. Holzschuh, S. Potts, Verena Riedinger, Stuart P. M. Roberts, M. Rundlöf, Henrik G. Smith, I. Steffan‐Dewenter, Jennifer B. Wickens and 2 more. 2015

276 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. John M. Holland
2. S. Potts
3. T. Wood
4. Dave Goulson
5. J. Memmott
6. F. Drummond
7. L. Stack
8. Aaron K. Hoshide

In Insect Science

1. S. Potts
2. John M. Holland
3. Dave Goulson
4. F. Drummond
5. L. Stack
6. Aaron K. Hoshide
7. A. C. Dibble
8. E. Venturini

In Plant Science

1. John M. Holland
2. T. Wood
3. S. Potts
4. Dave Goulson
5. A. Armstrong
6. F. Drummond
7. Hollie Blaydes
8. L. Stack

Citations in the corpus

• Providing foraging resources for solitary bees on farmland: current schemes for pollinators benefit a limited suite of species (2017, background): “2006), with such studies finding a positive impact on bee species richness and abundance (Holland et al. 2015; Scheper et al. 2015).”
• Phenology of farmland floral resources reveals seasonal gaps in nectar availability for bumblebees (2019, background): “For pollinators to persist and thrive at the landscape level, they must have sufficient floral resources for the entire duration of their flight season (Menz et al., 2011; Russo, DeBarros, Yang, Shea, & Mortensen, 2013; Scheper et al., 2015).”
• Opportunities to enhance pollinator biodiversity in solar parks (2021, background): “Beneficial effects of season-long access to resources, eliminating seasonal periods of nutritional deficit, were predominantly reported for bumblebees [55,80,109–112], bees [55,113,114] and honeybees [115,116].”
• A biodiversity-friendly rotational grazing system enhancing flower-visiting insect assemblages while maintaining animal and grassland productivity (2017, background): “Thus, it would be important to discriminate if the observed increase in flower-visiting insect abundance and diversity only constituted a temporary concentration of adults (the so-called ‘concentration effect’) and not a real and sustained population-level effect (Kleijn et al., 2011; Scheper et al.”
• Pollination reservoirs for wild bee habitat enhancement in cropping systems: a review (2017, background): “…among PRs and natural habitats (Rao and Strange 2012), their spatial arrangement in the landscape (Fabian et al. 2013), and phenological and ecological contrasts between PRs, crops, and the surrounding landscape (Heard et al. 2007; Leong et al. 2016; Scheper et al. 2015) all play a role.”
• Landscape impacts on pollinator communities in temperate systems: evidence and knowledge gaps (2017, unknown): “…positively influenced by the presence of temporary grasslands in cereal rotations (Le Feon et al. 2013) and bee species richness in wildflower strips on arable land increased with the amount of semi-natural habitats in the landscape (Scheper et al. 2015) (see also section Agri-environment schemes).”