Although the importance of natural habitats to pollinator diversity is widely recognized, the
value of forests to pollinating insects has been largely overlooked in many parts of the world. …

Studies of newly emerged Apis mellifera worker bees have demonstrated that their guts are
colonized by a consistent core microbiota within several days of eclosure. We conducted …

Ecosystem functioning relies heavily on below‐ground processes, which are largely regulated
by plant fine‐roots and their functional traits. However, our knowledge of fine‐root trait …

Land-use change threatens global biodiversity and may reshape the tree of life by favoring
some lineages over others. Whether phylogenetic diversity loss compromises ecosystem …

… Second, while canopy tree climbing we observed several vibrant Augochlorini nests in
dead oak branches at ~25 m aboveground (K. Urban-Mead, personal observation). These …

Many scientific disciplines are currently experiencing a 'reproducibility crisis' because numerous
scientific findings cannot be repeated consistently. A novel but controversial hypothesis …

… , as these were required for later species identification (Urban-Mead et al., 2021). The gut …
Urban-Mead analysed the data and led the writing of the manuscript; all authors provided …

… Pollen grains were categorized into pollen morphospecies groups based on the lowest
possible taxonomic resolution (Urban-Mead et al., in revision), and simple richness of pollen …

… Below we report number of model parameters (k), AIC c , Δ AIC c , AIC c weight (AIC c Wt.)
and each covariate β parameter estimate and β parameter estimates (95% confidence interval…

The first part of this publication, written by a group of participants in Bee Course 2018, results
from the discovery of three nests of Caupolicana yarrowi (Cresson, 1875) at the base of the …