Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...

Biologist Anne Leonard is studying how bumblebees pick the wildflowers they use for food, and how that might affect the plant community around them. Leonard, a Department of Biology associate ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Forests with different flora and vegetation types harbor different assemblages of flower visitors, and plant-pollinator interactions vary ...

With the right mix of plants, urban green spaces can be a rich habitat to support diverse pollinators, according to a new study. With the right mix of plants, urban green spaces can be a rich habitat ...

Increasing urbanization worldwide is a growing threat to biodiversity. At the same time, flowering plants are often more diverse in cities than in the countryside. This is due to flowering plants and ...

Biological invasions are a major driver of biodiversity loss and invasive pollinators can reshape native plant-pollinator ...

Understanding human impacts on biodiversity is hindered by a lack of long-term studies spanning decades and documenting these changes. Such studies are so rare because they are difficult to maintain ...

Using functional traits together with abundance effects strengthens the prediction of interactions between pairs of species in ecological networks. Insights into the way species interact as well as ...

Interaction networks are typically presented and analyzed as compiled observations over multiple time periods or sites but decomposing networks into their spatiotemporal components can give us ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A white-shouldered bumblebee, _Bombus appositus_ visits the flowers of a goldenbanner. Julian Resasco, CC BY-ND Imagine a bee ...