Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects

Pollinators can persist in urban areas despite little natural habitat. Here the authors compare insect pollinators and pollination inside and outside of German cities, showing that urban areas have high diversity of bees but not other insects, and high pollination provisioning, relative to rural sit...

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Main Authors: Panagiotis Theodorou, Rita Radzevičiūtė, Guillaume Lentendu, Belinda Kahnt, Martin Husemann, Christoph Bleidorn, Josef Settele, Oliver Schweiger, Ivo Grosse, Tesfaye Wubet, Tomás E. Murray, Robert J. Paxton
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Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14496-6
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spelling doaj-213cf7473da542f3856b8b5146ae70d92021-05-11T09:09:59ZengNature Publishing GroupNature Communications2041-17232020-01-0111111310.1038/s41467-020-14496-6Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insectsPanagiotis Theodorou0Rita Radzevičiūtė1Guillaume Lentendu2Belinda Kahnt3Martin Husemann4Christoph Bleidorn5Josef Settele6Oliver Schweiger7Ivo Grosse8Tesfaye Wubet9Tomás E. Murray10Robert J. Paxton11General Zoology, Institute for Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-WittenbergGeneral Zoology, Institute for Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-WittenbergDepartment of Ecology, University of KaiserslauternGeneral Zoology, Institute for Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-WittenbergGeneral Zoology, Institute for Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-WittenbergGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-LeipzigGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-LeipzigDepartment of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-LeipzigGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-LeipzigGeneral Zoology, Institute for Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-WittenbergGeneral Zoology, Institute for Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-WittenbergPollinators can persist in urban areas despite little natural habitat. Here the authors compare insect pollinators and pollination inside and outside of German cities, showing that urban areas have high diversity of bees but not other insects, and high pollination provisioning, relative to rural sites.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14496-6
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author Panagiotis Theodorou
Rita Radzevičiūtė
Guillaume Lentendu
Belinda Kahnt
Martin Husemann
Christoph Bleidorn
Josef Settele
Oliver Schweiger
Ivo Grosse
Tesfaye Wubet
Tomás E. Murray
Robert J. Paxton
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Rita Radzevičiūtė
Guillaume Lentendu
Belinda Kahnt
Martin Husemann
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Oliver Schweiger
Ivo Grosse
Tesfaye Wubet
Tomás E. Murray
Robert J. Paxton
Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects
Nature Communications
author_facet Panagiotis Theodorou
Rita Radzevičiūtė
Guillaume Lentendu
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Tesfaye Wubet
Tomás E. Murray
Robert J. Paxton
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title Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects
title_short Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects
title_full Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects
title_fullStr Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects
title_full_unstemmed Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects
title_sort urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects
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series Nature Communications
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publishDate 2020-01-01
description Pollinators can persist in urban areas despite little natural habitat. Here the authors compare insect pollinators and pollination inside and outside of German cities, showing that urban areas have high diversity of bees but not other insects, and high pollination provisioning, relative to rural sites.
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14496-6
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