Francis Ratnieks
University of Sussex
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Europe-United Kingdom
Top articles of Francis Ratnieks
Title | Journal | Author(s) | Publication Date |
|---|---|---|---|
Ancient, veteran and other listed trees as nest sites for wild-living honey bee, Apis mellifera, colonies | Journal of Insect Conservation | Oliver D Visick Francis LW Ratnieks | 2024/2 |
Improving pollen and nectar supply by identifying the red clover (Trifolium pratense) cultivars that attract most pollinators | Agricultural and Forest Entomology | Ciaran Harris Francis LW Ratnieks | 2024/1/23 |
Why petals? Naïve, but not experienced bees, preferentially visit flowers with larger visual signals | Insects | Nicholas J Balfour Francis LW Ratnieks | 2023/1/26 |
Distribution and abundance of the ivy bee, Colletes hederae Schmidt & Westrich, 1993, in Sussex, southern England. | BioInvasions Record | Norman L Carreck Johanna Andernach Ali Ariss Holly Dowd Alex Gant | 2023/9/1 |
Phenological imbalance in the supply and demand of floral resources: Half the pollen and nectar produced by the main autumn food source, Hedera helix, is … | Ecological Entomology | Ciaran Harris Hannah Ferguson Ethan Millward Phoebe Ney Nadia Sheikh | 2023/6 |
Food for flower-visiting insects: appreciating common native wild flowering plants. | People and Nature | VR Wignall NJ Balfour S Gandy FLW Ratnieks | 2023 |
Honey bee waggle dances facilitate shorter foraging distances and increased foraging aggregation | Animal Behaviour | Kyle Shackleton Nicholas J Balfour Hasan Al Toufailia Emma James Francis LW Ratnieks | 2023/4/1 |
Density of wild honey bee, Apis mellifera, colonies worldwide | Oliver D Visick Francis LW Ratnieks | 2023/10 | |
Pollinator spillover: Hay cutting of grass with white clover, Trifolium repens, displaces bees and increases their abundance in adjacent patches of bramble, Rubus fruticosus | Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment | Ciaran Harris Rosy Christopher Seshi Humphrey-Ackumey Rachel Mercer Phoebe Ney | 2023/9/15 |
Clover in agriculture: combined benefits for bees, environment, and farmer | Ciaran Harris Francis LW Ratnieks | 2022/6 | |
Distribution and status of the ivy bee (Colletes hederae) in counties Wexford anf Wicklow, Ireland, Autumn 2022 | Irish Naturalists' Journal | FLW Ratnieks O Beckett B Nelson Ú FitzPatrick | 2022 |
Density of wild-living honey bee, Apis mellifera, colonies worldwide: A review | Oliver Visick Francis Ratnieks | 2022/5/24 | |
The disproportionate value of ‘weeds’ to pollinators and biodiversity | Journal of Applied Ecology | Nicholas J Balfour Francis LW Ratnieks | 2022/5 |
Can beekeeping improve mental wellbeing during times of crisis? | Bee World | Karin Alton Francis Ratnieks | 2022/4/29 |
Correlated expression of phenotypic and extended phenotypic traits across stingless bee species: worker eye morphology, foraging behaviour, and nest entrance architecture | Journal of Apicultural Research | Francisca HID Segers Christoph Grüter Cristiano Menezes Sidnei Mateus Francis LW Ratnieks | 2022/10/20 |
Energetic efficiency of foraging mediates bee niche partitioning | Nicholas J Balfour Kyle Shackleton Natalie A Arscott Kimberley Roll‐Baldwin Anthony Bracuti | 2021/4 | |
Population assessment and foraging ecology of the rare solitary bee Anthophora retusa at Seaford Head Nature reserve | Journal of Insect Conservation | Georgia Hennessy Dave Goulson Francis LW Ratnieks | 2021/2 |
Plants and pollinators: Will natural selection cause an imbalance between nectar supply and demand? | Ecology Letters | FLW Ratnieks NJ Balfour | 2021 |
Wind slows play: Increasing wind speed reduces flower visiting rate in honey bees | Animal Behaviour | Georgia Hennessy Ciaran Harris Lucien Pirot Alexandra Lefter Dave Goulson | 2021/8/1 |
Phenology of the specialist bee Colletes hederae and its dependence on Hedera helix L. in comparison to a generalist, Apis mellifera | Arthropod-Plant Interactions | Georgia Hennessy Cassanda Uthoff Sema Abbas Stefano C Quaradeghini Emma Stokes | 2021/4 |
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