07.01.2013 Article alert: Different toxic and hormetic responses of Bombus impatiens to Beauveria bassiana, Bacillus subtilis and spirotetramat Pest Management Science (2012) doi: 10.1002/ps.3456Ramanaidu K, Cutler GCPollinator exposure to pesticides is a concern in agricultural systems that depend on pollinators for crop production. However, not all...

28.12.2012 Article alert: Resource diversity and landscape-level homogeneity drive native bee foraging PNAS (2012) doi: 10.1073/pnas.1208682110Jha S, Kremen CGiven widespread declines in pollinator communities and increasing global reliance on pollinator-dependent crops, there is an acute need to develop a mec...

28.12.2012 Article alert: Indirect competition for pollinators is weak compared to direct resource competition: pollination and performance in the face of an invader Oecologia (2012) 10.1007/s00442-012-2556-9Palladini JD, Maron JLInvasive plants have the potential to reduce native plant abundance through both direct and indirect interactions. Direct interactions, such as ...

19.12.2012 Article alert: Detecting Insect Pollinator Declines on Regional and Global Scales Conservation Biology. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01962.xLebuhn G, Droege S, Connor E et al.Recently there has been considerable concern about declines in bee communities in agricultural and natural habitat...

18.12.2012 Job alert: Doctoral fellowship: Integrated management of the ecosystem service biological pest control (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) One PhD-student will conduct manipulative field-, and small scale experiments in agricultural crops to better understand and manage ecosystem services. The student will use the acquired information to participate in the devel...

17.12.2012 Job alert: Doctoral fellowship: Apiculture and the pollinator decline: A model for pathogen driven biodiversity risks (University of Leipzig, Germany) The University of Leipzig offers as from March 1 doctoral fellowship. Embedded in the active research environment of iDiv, the Young BioDiversity Research Training Group will be established. Its goal is to educate a new gener...

17.12.2012 Job alert: Doctoral fellowship: Mapping Genetic and Species Diversity of Pollinators to the Ecosystem Service of Pollination Across Changing Landscapes (University of Leipz... The University of Leipzig offers as from March 1 doctoral fellowship. Embedded in the active research environment of iDiv, the Young BioDiversity Research Training Group will be established. Its goal is to educate a new gener...

07.12.2012 Article alert: Roles of scale, matrix, and native habitat in supporting a diverse suburban pollinator assemblage Ecological Applications (2012) 22: 1923–1935. doi: 10.1890/11-1590.1Hinners, Sarah J., Carol A. Kearns, and Carol A. WessmanWild pollinators provide important services to both wild and human-dominated ecosyst...

07.12.2012 Event alert: 2nd International Conference 'Science for the Environment' 2013 The second international conference 'Science for the Environment' will take place in Aarhus 3-4 October 2013. The conference theme is to map the research gap of the environmental challenges in Horizon 2020. The EU strategy f...

06.12.2012 Small patches of native plants help boost pollination services in large farms A combined team of scientists from Europe and South Africa (Luísa G. Carvalheiro (University of Leeds, UK & Naturalis Biodiversity Research Centre, Netherlands), Colleen Seymour and Ruan Veldtman (SANBI, South Africa) an...

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