Bumblebees: their behaviour and ecology.

By Dave Goulson. 2003

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Citations in the corpus

• The distribution of bumblebee colour patterns worldwide: possible significance for thermoregulation, crypsis, and warning mimicry (2007, background): “Thanks to Sydney Cameron, Lars Chittka, Liz Day, Michael Dillon, Jim Mallet, Lisa Manne, Clive Moncrieff, Quentin Wheeler, and Dick Vane-Wright for discussion and to the referees for useful comments.”
• Economic gain, stability of pollination and bee diversity decrease from southern to northern Europe (2013, background): “Among these pollinator taxa, bumblebees may be of particular importance because they are able to forage at temperatures close to freezing (Goulson 2003) and are therefore active when most other pollinating insects are immobile.”
• Effects of experience and weather on foraging rate and pollen versus nectar collection in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris (2005, background): “larger bees may be less prone to predation (for example by being caught in spider’s webs), although experimental evidence is lacking (Goulson et al. 2002; Goulson 2003).”
• Cryptic species diversity in a widespread bumble bee complex revealed using mitochondrial DNA RFLPs (2008, background): “Bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae, genus Bombus) are of great ecological and economic importance in temperate terrestrial ecosystems as major pollinators yet they are a currently declining group (Williams 1986, 2005; Kearns et al. 1998; Goulson 2003; Goulson et al. 2005, 2006; Carvell et al. 2006; Fi”
• Assessing the value of annual and perennial forage mixtures for bumblebees by direct observation and pollen analysis (2006, background): “pascuorum has the potential to obtain pollen from a wide range of species (although it prefers to specialise on the Fabaceae) may explain why it is one of only two longer-tongued Bombus species remaining common in the UK (Williams, 1982; Goulson, 2003).”
• Bumble bee pollen foraging regulation: role of pollen quality, storage levels, and odor (2009, background): “Bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini) play a major ecological role as pollinators in palaearctic, nearctic, and tropical ecosystems (Goulson 2003).”
• Causes of rarity in bumblebees (2005, background): “of bumblebees are linked to the intensification of farming practices (Williams, 1986; Osborne and Corbet, 1994; Goulson, 2003).”
• Effects of parasitic mites and protozoa on the flower constancy and foraging rate of bumble bees (2005, unknown): “Bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae) are a model system for investigations of animal foraging (Heinrich 1979; Goulson 2003) and host-parasite interactions (Schmid-Hempel 2001).”
• Use of genetic markers to quantify bumblebee foraging range and nest density (2004, unknown): “Within agricultural landscapes, bumblebees are thought to nest mainly in hedgerows or field margins (Svensson et al. 2000, Kells and Goulson 2003).”
• Patch and landscape factors shape community assemblage of bumble bees, Bombus spp. (Hymenoptera: Apidae), in montane meadows (2007, unknown): “It is difficult to distinguish between the two because bumble bee nests are difficult to locate in the field (Kells and Goulson, 2003).”
• Biotope Associations and the Decline of Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) (2006, background): “In addition, bumblebee nests support a suite of commensal, parasitic and parasitoid species (Alford 1975; Goulson 2003).”
• Decline of bumble bees (Bombus) in the North American Midwest (2009, background): “…bumble bees (Williams, 1986, 1988; Fitzpatrick et al., 2007) and reports from Europe also suggest that bumble bee declines may be linked to habitat loss and fragmentation , mostly due to urbanization and the intensification of farming practices (Williams, 1986; Goulson, 2003; Goulson et al., 2008).”
• Information flow and regulation of foraging activity in bumble bees (Bombus spp.) (2004, unknown): “Predators, parasites and bad weather can be encountered during a foraging trip and contribute to high forager mortality (e.g., Allen et al., 1978; König and SchmidHempel, 1995; reviewed in Heinrich, 1979; Plowright and Laverty, 1984; Seeley, 1985a; Goulson, 2003).”