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
Format:	Article
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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author_facet	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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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
publisher	Nature Publishing Group
series	Nature Communications
issn	2041-1723
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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Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects

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