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In this section, you will be able to view all the completed, public STEP deliverables as well as a listing of scientific publications resulting from the project.
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Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

Expansion of mass-flowering crops leads to transient pollinator dilution and reduced wild plant pollination.
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Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems.
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Pollination services in the UK: How important are honeybees?

How Pollination Ecology research can help answer important questions
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Functional complementarity and specialisation: The role of biodiversity in plant–pollinator interactions

Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: how climate change and alien species interact to affect pollination
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Contribution of Pollinator-Mediated Crops to Nutrients in the Human Food Supply
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Drastic historic shifts in bumble-bee community composition in Sweden
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Plant–pollinator interactions in changing environments

Endosymbionts and honey bee colony losses?

The Distribution Atlas of European Butterflies

The potential impacts of insecticides on the life-history traits of bees and the consequences for pollination

Assessing continental-scale risks for generalist and specialist pollinating bee species under climate change
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Landscape context and elevation affect pollinator communities in intensive apple orchards

Creating patches of native flowers facilitates crop pollination in large agricultural fields: mango as a case study
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Uncertainty in thermal tolerances and climatic debt

Patterns of beta diversity in Europe: partitioning the effects of climate, land-cover and distance across scales

Long-distance dispersal and habitat use of the butterfly Byasa impediens in a fragmented subtropical forest

Geographical patterns in prediction error of species distribution models

Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale

With that diet, you will go far: trait-based analysis reveals a link between rapid range expansion and a nitrogen-favoured diet

When ecosystem services interact: crop pollination benefits depend on the level of pest control
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Towards Integrated Pest Management in Red Clover Seed Production

Organic Farming Improves Pollination Success in Strawberries
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Specialization of mutualistic interaction networks decreases towards tropical latitudes
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Assessing the effect of the time since transition to organic farming on plants and butterflies
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Clinical signs of deformed wing virus infection are predictive markers for honey bee colony losses

Genotypic diversity in queenless honey bee colonies reduces fitness

Dead or alive: Deformed wing virus and Varroa destructor reduce the life span of winter honey bees.
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Predictive markers of honey bee colony collapse
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Colony Collapse Disorder in Europe

Varroa destructor: research avenues towards sustainable control
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Challenges for developing pathogen-based biopesticides against Varroa destructor (Mesostigmata: Varroidae)

Long-range dispersal of small hive beetles

Varroa invasion and virus adaptation

Reproductive biology of the Cape honeybee: A response to Beekman et al.
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Sex ratio and dispersal of small hive beetles

An update on the COLOSS network and the “BEEBOOK: standard methodologies for Apis mellifera research”
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A scientific note on Israeli acute paralysis virus infections of Eastern honey bee Apis cerana and vespine predator Vespa velutina

Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses
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Synergistic effects of non-Apis bees and honey bees for pollination services
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Wild pollination services to California almond rely on semi-natural habitat
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Abundance and diversity of wild bees along gradients of heavy metal pollution
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Mite species inhabiting commercial bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) nests in Polish greenhouses
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Swarming generates rebel workers in honeybee
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Cocoon orientation in the nests of red mason bees (Osmia bicornis) is affected by cocoon size and available space
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Altitude acts as an environmental filter on phylogenetic composition, traits and diversity in bee communities
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A method for under-sampled ecological network data analysis: plant-pollination as case study
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Mass-flowering crops enhance wild bee abundance
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Landscapes with wild bee habitats enhance pollination, fruit set and yield of sweet cherry

Spillover of functionally important organisms between managed and natural habitats

Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits
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Pollinator Diversity (Hymenoptera and Diptera) in Semi-Natural Habitats in Serbia During Summer
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The effect of climatic variation on abundance and diversity of bumblebees: a ten years survey in a mountain hotspot
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Developing European conservation and mitigation tools for pollination services: approaches of the STEP (Status and Trends of European Pollinators) project
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The Bumblebees Scarcity Syndrome: Are heat waves leading to local extinctions of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus)?
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Historical changes in northeastern US bee pollinators related to shared ecological traits
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High population variability and source-sink dynamics in a solitary bee species

Increasing range mismatching of interacting species under global change is related to their ecological characteristics_Supplementary information

Species-Area Relationships Are Controlled by Species Traits
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Insect pollination enhances seed yield, quality, and market value in oilseed rape

Assessing bee species richness in two Mediterranean communities: importance of habitat type and sampling techniques

Does conservation on farmland contribute to halting the biodiversity decline?

Ecological intensification: harnessing ecosystem services for food security

Investigating plant–pollinator relationships in the Aegean: the approaches of the project POL-AEGIS (The pollinators of the Aegean archipelago: diversity and threats)

Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW-European pollinators and plants
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Combined effects of global change pressures on animal-mediated pollination

Agricultural Policies Exacerbate Honeybee Pollination Service Supply-Demand Mismatches Across Europe
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Contrasting effects of habitat area and connectivity on evenness of pollinator communities

Influence of combined pesticide and parasite exposure on bumblebee colony traits in the laboratory

Bee pollination improves crop quality, shelf life and commercial value
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Can pollination services, species diversity and conservation be simultaneously promoted by sown wildflower strips on farmland?

Cereal Aphids and Their Natural Enemies Responses to Landscape Composition and Agri-Environment Schemes

CLIMBER: Climatic niche characteristics of the butterflies in Europe
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Comparison of pollinators and natural enemies: a meta-analysis of landscape and local effects on abundance and richness in crops
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Ecological characteristics associated with high mobility in night-active moths

Environmental factors driving the effectiveness of European agri-environmental measures in mitigating pollinator loss – a meta-analysis

Exploring Broad Mitigation Strategies for Pollinators in Agroecosystems

Fit-for-purpose: Species distribution model performance depends on evaluation criteria -Dutch hoverflies as a case study
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Land-use changes, farm management and the decline of butterflies associated with semi-natural grasslands in southern Sweden
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No bias behind pollinator research

Population Fluctuations and Synchrony of Grassland Butterflies in Relation to Species Traits
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Spatially-explicit estimation of geographical representation in large-scale species distribution datasets
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Sublethal neonicotinoid insecticide exposure reduces solitary bee reproductive success
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Survival, reproduction and population growth of the important pollinator bee, Osmia rufa, along gradients of heavy metal pollution

Trait-dependent responses of flower-visiting insects to distance to semi-natural grasslands and landscape heterogeneity

Transient peak in moth diversity as a response to organic farming

Late-season mass-flowering red clover increases bumble bee queen and male densities

Infectivity of DWV Associated to Flower Pollen: Experimental Evidence of a Horizontal Transmission Route
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A new species for the bee fauna of Italy: Megachile sculpturalis continues its colonization of Europe
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A butterfly hotspot in Western China, its environmental threats and conservation

A century of species loss and biotic homogenization in Danish butterfly assemblages

Achieving production and conservation simultaneously in tropical agricultural landscapes

A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems

A multilevel analysis on pollination-related policies

An integrative taxonomic approach to assess the taxonomic status of insular bumblebees: implication on Corsican bumblebee conservation

"Annual dynamics of wild bee densities: attractiveness and productivity effects of oilseed rape"

A preliminary analysis of the fate of European bumblebees.
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A protocol to assess the heat stress resistance of insects applied to bumblebees
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