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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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Bees and other pollinators: their value and health in England
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Pollinator Diversity (Hymenoptera and Diptera) in Semi-Natural Habitats in Serbia During Summer
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Bumblebees (Bombidae) along pollution gradient - Heavy metal accumulation, species diversity, and Nosema bombi infection level

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

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

Exploring Broad Mitigation Strategies for Pollinators in Agroecosystems

Insect pollinators: linking research and policy
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Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices

Global honey bee colony disorders and other threats to insect pollinators

A new species for the bee fauna of Italy: Megachile sculpturalis continues its colonization of Europe
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Atlas Hymenoptera

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

Contribution of insect pollinators to crop yield and quality varies with agricultural intensification
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CLIMBER: Climatic niche characteristics of the butterflies in Europe
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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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Assessing continental-scale risks for generalist and specialist pollinating bee species under climate change
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Spatially-explicit estimation of geographical representation in large-scale species distribution datasets
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Agricultural Policies Exacerbate Honeybee Pollination Service Supply-Demand Mismatches Across Europe
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Population Fluctuations and Synchrony of Grassland Butterflies in Relation to Species Traits
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Fit-for-purpose: Species distribution model performance depends on evaluation criteria -Dutch hoverflies as a case study
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Contribution of Pollinator-Mediated Crops to Nutrients in the Human Food Supply
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Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: how climate change and alien species interact to affect 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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Survival, reproduction and population growth of the important pollinator bee, Osmia rufa, along gradients of heavy metal pollution

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

Comparison of pollinators and natural enemies: a meta-analysis of landscape and local effects on abundance and richness in crops
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Sublethal neonicotinoid insecticide exposure reduces solitary bee reproductive success
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Influence of combined pesticide and parasite exposure on bumblebee colony traits in the laboratory

The impact of over 80 years of land cover changes on bee and wasp pollinator communities in England
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Bee pollination improves crop quality, shelf life and commercial value
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Synergistic effects of non-Apis bees and honey bees for pollination services
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When ecosystem services interact: crop pollination benefits depend on the level of pest control
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Drastic historic shifts in bumble-bee community composition in Sweden
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Expansion of mass-flowering crops leads to transient pollinator dilution and reduced wild plant pollination.
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Endosymbionts and honey bee colony losses?

Transient peak in moth diversity as a response to organic farming

Ecological characteristics associated with high mobility in night-active moths

Plant–pollinator interactions in changing environments

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

Functional complementarity and specialisation: The role of biodiversity in plant–pollinator interactions

Can pollination services, species diversity and conservation be simultaneously promoted by sown wildflower strips on farmland?

Pollination services in the UK: How important are honeybees?

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

The effect of climatic variation on abundance and diversity of bumblebees: a ten years survey in a mountain hotspot
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Are Neonicotinoids Killing Bees?
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Wild pollinators enhance fruit set of crops regardless of honey-bee abundance

A multilevel analysis on pollination-related policies

Maize pollen foraging by honey bees in relation to crop area and landscape contex

Landscape context and elevation affect pollinator communities in intensive apple orchards

Pollination ecology of a plant in its native and introduced areas

Specialization of mutualistic interaction networks decreases towards tropical latitudes
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A stated preference valuation of the non-market benefits of pollination services in the UK

Combined effects of global change pressures on animal-mediated pollination

Ecological intensification: harnessing ecosystem services for food security

Back to the future: Apis vs. non-Apis pollination - a response to Ollerton et al.

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers 

Interactive effect of floral abundance and semi-natural habitats on pollinators in field beans

Achieving production and conservation simultaneously in tropical agricultural landscapes

Spillover of functionally important organisms between managed and natural habitats

Clinical signs of deformed wing virus infection are predictive markers for honey bee colony losses

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

Landscapes with wild bee habitats enhance pollination, fruit set and yield of sweet cherry

The Bumblebees Scarcity Syndrome: Are heat waves leading to local extinctions of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus)?
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A method for under-sampled ecological network data analysis: plant-pollination as case study
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How Pollination Ecology research can help answer important questions
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Historical changes in northeastern US bee pollinators related to shared ecological traits
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Museum specimens reveal loss of pollen host plants as key factor driving wild bee decline in the Netherlands.

Predictive markers of honey bee colony collapse
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Infectivity of DWV Associated to Flower Pollen: Experimental Evidence of a Horizontal Transmission Route
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Species-Area Relationships Are Controlled by Species Traits
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Organic Farming Improves Pollination Success in Strawberries
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Mite species inhabiting commercial bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) nests in Polish greenhouses
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Uncertainty in thermal tolerances and climatic debt

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

No bias behind pollinator research

Functional traits help to explain half-century long shifts in pollinator distributions
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Investigating plant–pollinator relationships in the Aegean: the approaches of the project POL-AEGIS (The pollinators of the Aegean archipelago: diversity and threats)

Sex ratio and dispersal of small hive beetles

Varroa destructor: research avenues towards sustainable control
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Long-range dispersal of small hive beetles

Genotypic diversity in queenless honey bee colonies reduces fitness

Developing European conservation and mitigation tools for pollination services: approaches of the STEP (Status and Trends of European Pollinators) project
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An update on the COLOSS network and the “BEEBOOK: standard methodologies for Apis mellifera research”
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The Distribution Atlas of European Butterflies

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

From research to action: practices to enhance crop yield through wild pollinators

Contrasting effects of mass-flowering crops on bee pollination of hedge plants at different spatial and temporal scales

High population variability and source-sink dynamics in a solitary bee species

Varroa invasion and virus adaptation

Phylogenetic diversity and nature conservation: where are we?

Does conservation on farmland contribute to halting the biodiversity decline?

Swarming generates rebel workers in honeybee
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Progress on the International Initiative for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Pollinators COP-11 Hyderabad, India

Towards Integrated Pest Management in Red Clover Seed Production

Scent of a break-up: phylogeography and reproductive trait divergences in the red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
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Microsatellite analysis in museum samples reveals inbreeding before the regression of Bombus veteranus
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Altitude acts as an environmental filter on phylogenetic composition, traits and diversity in bee communities
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A butterfly hotspot in Western China, its environmental threats and conservation

Dealing with complexity in pollination management
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Methods for species delimitation in bumblebees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus): towards an integrative approach
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