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Decline and Conservation of Bumble Bees
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Declines in bumble bee species in the past 60 years are well documented in Europe, where they are driven primarily by habitat loss and declines in floral abundance and diversity resulting from agricultural intensification. Impacts of habitat degradation and fragmentation are likely to be compounded by the social nature of bumble bees and their largely monogamous breeding system, which renders their effective population size low. Hence, populations are susceptible to stochastic extinction events and inbreeding. In North America, catastrophic declines of some bumble bee species since the 1990s are probably attributable to the accidental introduction of a nonnative parasite from Europe, a result of global trade in domesticated bumble bee colonies used for pollination of greenhouse crops. Given the importance of bumble bees as pollinators of crops and wildflowers, steps must be taken to prevent further declines. Suggested measures include tight regulation of commercial bumble bee use and targeted use of environmentally comparable schemes to enhance floristic diversity in agricultural landscapes.
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“Data for other well-studied taxa such as bees [8–14] and moths [15–18] suggest the same trend.”
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“Our results demonstrate that recently reported declines in several taxa such as butterflies [7, 25–27, 58], wild bees [8–14] and moths [15–18], are in parallel with a severe loss of total aerial insect biomass, suggesting that it is not only the vulnerable species, but the flying insect community as a whole, that has been decimated over the last few decades.”
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BackgroundINCREASED POLLINATOR ACTIVITY IN URBAN GARDENS WITH MORE NATIVE FLORA
FUKASE, J. (2016) · Applied Ecology and Environmental Research · doi:10.15666/aeer/1401_297310 · Cited by 87
“Because peak abundance of the various pollinator guilds does not coincide, results may be explained by the influence of particular plant species (Goulson et al., 2008; Hanley et al., 2014), perhaps because of their flowering phenology and the resulting seasonal availability of floral rewards.”
BackgroundDavid, A., Botías, C., Abdul‐Sada, A. K., Goulson, D., & Hill, E. M. (2015) · Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry · doi:10.1007/s00216-015-8986-6 · Cited by 87
Self-citationInfluence of the reduction of urban lawn mowing on wild bee diversity (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)
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“A primary focus of work investigating the causes of these declines has been on honey bees, with fewer studies on bumblebees and solitary bees (Goulson et al. 2008; De la Rúa et al. 2009; Laycock et al. 2012).”
InfluentialListmania: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Lists of Garden Plants to Help Pollinators
Garbuzov, M., & Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2014) · BioScience · doi:10.1093/biosci/biu150 · Cited by 86
“Similarly, declines in floral abundance and diversity are blamed for the long-term decline of bumblebees (genus Bombus) in Europe (Goulson et al. 2008).”
BackgroundInfluentialLow dose of neonicotinoid insecticide reduces foraging motivation of bumblebees
Lämsä, J., Kuusela, E., Tuomi, J., Juntunen, S., & Watts, P. C. (2018) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.0506 · Cited by 86
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Effects of neonicotinoid insecticide exposure and monofloral diet on nest-founding bumblebee queens
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Wild, native bees and managed honey bees benefit from similar agricultural land uses
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“…because they are important descriptors of bee ecology and may predict bee community stability: nesting habit (Williams et al., 2010), duration of seasonal activity (De Palma et al., 2015), floral specialization (Grundel et al., 2010; Weiner et al., 2014), and tongue length (Goulson et al., 2008).”
BackgroundMeeus, I., de Graaf, D. C., Jans, K., & Smagghe, G. J. (2009) · Journal of Applied Microbiology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2672.2009.04635.x · Cited by 82
“Agricultural intensification leading to a reduction in continuous flowering and habitat loss are considered as major causes of these declines and extinctions of some species (Goulson et al. 2008).”
BackgroundChristen, V., & Fent, K. (2017) · Environmental Pollution · doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2017.04.003 · Cited by 82
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Reproductive Senescence in Drones of the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
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“Bumble-bees are important generalist pollinators considered a key-stone species [33,34] and are some of the most effective native pollinators [35].”
BackgroundReflections on, and visions for, the changing field of pollination ecology
Knight, T. M., Ashman, T., Bennett, J. M., Burns, J. H., Passonneau, S., & Steets, J. A. (2018) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1111/ele.13094 · Cited by 80
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Possible Spillover of Pathogens between Bee Communities Foraging on the Same Floral Resource
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“However some species face a population decline [5,6] and experience a reduced abundance and a range of contractions, as described in the UK for bumblebees [7] in regards to total extinction.”
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The bumble bee microbiome increases survival of bees exposed to selenate toxicity
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“European bumble bees are simultaneously facing serious decline (Goulson et al., 2008).”
BackgroundThe Effect of Pesticides on the Microbiome of Animals
Syromyatnikov, M., Isuwa, M. M., Savinkova, O. V., Derevshchikova, M. I., & Popov, V. N. (2020) · Agriculture · doi:10.3390/agriculture10030079 · Cited by 86
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Pesticide exposure affects flight dynamics and reduces flight endurance in bumblebees
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“…trips from this set nest location, and consequently any habitat discontinuity may require workers to fly longer distances to find and bring back resources, such as pollen and nectar (Goulson et al., 2008; Jha and Kremen, 2013; Pelletier and McNeil, 2003; Schmid-Hempel and Schmid-Hempel, 1998).”
BackgroundBurnham, P. A., Alger, S. A., Case, B., Boncristiani, H., Hébert‐Dufresne, L., & Brody, A. K. (2021) · Journal of Applied Ecology · doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13962 · Cited by 86
Bumble bee ecophysiology: integrating the changing environment and the organism
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“Over the last decade, bumble bees have received considerable, growing attention related to human-mediated population declines and range shifts [8,9].”
BackgroundUtilization of photographs taken by citizens for estimating bumblebee distributions
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Field Margins, Foraging Distances and Their Impacts on Nesting Pollinator Success
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“Pollinator loss, particularly of bees, has drastic economic effects [6–8], and much effort has been put into both identifying the factors causing these losses, and attempting to reverse the declines [5,9–11].”
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“To date, explanations for differential declines have included differences in: tongue length, emergence time, niche breadth, climatic niche space and differential susceptibility to disease (reviewed in Goulson et al. 2008).”
BackgroundSelf-citationMaize‐dominated landscapes reduce bumblebee colony growth through pollen diversity loss
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Bumble bees show trait-dependent vulnerability to landscape simplification
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Western bumble bee: declines in the continental United States and range‐wide information gaps
Graves, T. A., Janousek, W. M., Gaulke, S. M., Nicholas, A. C., Keinath, D. A., Bell, C. M., Cannings, S., Hatfield, R. G., Heron, J., Koch, J. B. U., et al. (2020) · Ecosphere · doi:10.1002/ecs2.3141 · Cited by 75
“As population declines of WBB in North America were observed, culminating in the current effort by agencies in the United States and Canada to consider the species for protection, land managers, and others began efforts to collect pertinent occurrence information.”
BackgroundInfluentialMolecular tools and bumble bees: revealing hidden details of ecology and evolution in a model system
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“…bees are often considered keystone species because of their generalist pollination services, whereby they support plant community diversity by visiting both rare and abundant plant species (Memmott et al. 2004; Goulson et al. 2008; Cusser & Goodell 2013; Burkle et al. 2013; Brosi & Briggs 2013).”
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“In common with other bees, some species of bumblebee have exhibited steep population declines in recent decades, both in Europe and North America (Goulson et al. 2008; Grixti et al. 2009).”
BackgroundDance, C., Botías, C., & Goulson, D. (2017) · Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety · doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2017.01.041 · Cited by 77
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Metadata
- Authors
- Goulson, D., Lye, G. C., & Darvill, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Stirling (GB)
- ORCID
- Goulson, D.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Entomology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2008-01-01
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 191-208
- ISSN
- 0066-4170 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-4487
- OpenAlex
- W2100945295
- Cited by
- 1,183
- References
- 104
- Citations by year
- 2026: 45 · 2025: 81 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 82 · 2022: 74 · 2021: 95 · 2020: 94 · 2019: 80 · 2018: 66 · 2017: 66 · 2016: 66 · 2015: 65 · 2014: 72 · 2013: 68 · 2012: 40
- FWCI
- 3.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- figshare.com
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Annual Review of Entomology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Stirling Online Research Repository (University of Stirling) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- 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 Pesticide Research
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Keywords
- bumblebees, population decline (ecology), habitat loss, agricultural intensification, floral diversity, habitat fragmentation, inbreeding, stochastic extinction, pollination, conservation, pollinator decline, North America, Europe
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, Animals, Bees, Conservation of Natural Resources, Environment, Pesticides, Population Dynamics, Flowers, Biodiversity
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