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Museum specimens reveal loss of pollen host plants as key factor driving wild bee decline in The Netherlands
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Significance: Growing concern about bee declines and associated loss of pollination services has increased the urgency to identify the underlying causes. So far, the identification of the key drivers of decline of bee populations has largely been based on speculation. We assessed the relative importance of a range of proposed factors responsible for wild bee decline and show that loss of preferred host plant species is one of the main factors associated with the decline of bee populations in The Netherlands. Interestingly, species foraging on crop plant families have stable or increasing populations. These results indicate that mitigation strategies for loss of wild bees will only be effective if they target the specific host plants of declining bee species.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Scheper, J., Reemer, M., van Kats, R., Ozinga, W. A., van der Linden, G. T. J., Schaminée, J. H. J., Siepel, H., & Kleijn, D.
- Affiliations
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NL)
- Animal Ecology Team, Alterra, Wageningen University & Research Centre, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands;
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands;
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2014-11-24
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- 49
- Pages
- 17552-17557
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC4267333
- OpenAlex
- W2066447990
- Cited by
- 357
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 24 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 26.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- European Commission (244090)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Plant and animal studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect and Pesticide Research
- Keywords
- host plant preference, pollen load, museum specimens, insect collection, body size, food limitation, diet breadth, climate change, pollination crisis, floral resources, Netherlands
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, Animals, Bees, Ecology, Female, Museums, Netherlands, Plants, Pollen, Population Dynamics, Seasons, Flowers, Body Size, Extinction, Biological, Pollination, Climate Change
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