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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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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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 Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects Nature Communications |
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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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Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects |
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Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects |
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Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects |
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Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects |
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Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects |
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urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects |
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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. |
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