Implementing cost-effective monitoring programs for wild bees remains challenging due to the high costs of sampling and specimen identification. To reduce costs, next generation sequencing (NGS)-based methods have lately been suggested as alternatives to morphology-based identifications. To provide a comprehensive presentation of the advantages and weaknesses of different NGS-based identification methods, we assessed three of the most promising ones, namely metabarcoding, mitogenomics and NGS barcoding. Using a regular monitoring dataset (723 specimens identified using morphology), we found that NGS barcoding performed best for both species presence/absence and abundance data, producing only few false positives (3.4%) and none false negativ...
Identifying plant taxa that honey bees (Apis mellifera) forage upon is of great apicultural interest...
Bees are important pollinators of agricultural crops, and bee diversity has been shown to be closely...
Identifying the floral composition of honey provides a method for investigating the plants that hone...
Implementing cost-effective monitoring programs for wild bees remains challenging due to the high co...
Implementing cost-effective monitoring programs for wild bees remains challenging due to the high co...
1. Bee populations and other pollinators face multiple, synergistically acting threats, which have l...
Over the past few decades, several investigations around the globe have reported alarming declines i...
International audienceThe current decline of wild bees puts important ecosystem services such as pol...
Improved taxonomic methods are needed to quantify declining populations of insect pollinators. This ...
Premise of the study: Melissopalynology, the identification of bee-collected pollen, provides insigh...
Bees play a key role in the functioning of human-modified and natural ecosystems by pollinating agri...
Wild bees are crucial organisms for terrestrial environments. Their ongoing decline could cause irre...
Bees play a key role in the functioning of human-modified and natural ecosystems by pollinating agri...
Tens of thousands of insects are deposited in collections every year as a result of survey-based stu...
1. Bee pollinators provide a critical ecosystem service to wild and agricultural plants but are repo...
Identifying plant taxa that honey bees (Apis mellifera) forage upon is of great apicultural interest...
Bees are important pollinators of agricultural crops, and bee diversity has been shown to be closely...
Identifying the floral composition of honey provides a method for investigating the plants that hone...
Implementing cost-effective monitoring programs for wild bees remains challenging due to the high co...
Implementing cost-effective monitoring programs for wild bees remains challenging due to the high co...
1. Bee populations and other pollinators face multiple, synergistically acting threats, which have l...
Over the past few decades, several investigations around the globe have reported alarming declines i...
International audienceThe current decline of wild bees puts important ecosystem services such as pol...
Improved taxonomic methods are needed to quantify declining populations of insect pollinators. This ...
Premise of the study: Melissopalynology, the identification of bee-collected pollen, provides insigh...
Bees play a key role in the functioning of human-modified and natural ecosystems by pollinating agri...
Wild bees are crucial organisms for terrestrial environments. Their ongoing decline could cause irre...
Bees play a key role in the functioning of human-modified and natural ecosystems by pollinating agri...
Tens of thousands of insects are deposited in collections every year as a result of survey-based stu...
1. Bee pollinators provide a critical ecosystem service to wild and agricultural plants but are repo...
Identifying plant taxa that honey bees (Apis mellifera) forage upon is of great apicultural interest...
Bees are important pollinators of agricultural crops, and bee diversity has been shown to be closely...
Identifying the floral composition of honey provides a method for investigating the plants that hone...