JPE - Journal of Pollination Ecology

And another freshly published article by van Kolfschoten & Vallejo-Marín: Getting hooked? Testing the function of anther spurs in Vaccinium myrtillus: doi.org/10.26786/192...

Managed honeybees affect the foraging behaviour of bumblebees in Geranium sylvaticum - new study out by Soininen et al.: doi.org/10.26786/192...

Testing the pollen competition hypothesis - new article published by Yu & Muchhala: Greater number of pollen donors improves female reproductive success but not progeny vigour in Allium stellatum - doi.org/10.26786/192...

Discover a new data paper by Barberis, Bitonto, Costantino et al. where they make "Insect-flower interactions in the Mediterranean area: a Citizen Science dataset collated within the Life4Pollinators project" available: doi.org/10.26786/192...

Bumble bee colony health is diminished in a mesotunnel enclosure planted with a cucurbit monoculture crop - New publication out by Gauger et al. doi.org/10.26786/192...

New publication: Pollination facilitation and temporal changes of plant-floral visitor network in a serpentine shrubwood of Cuba by Alameda et al. doi.org/10.26786/192...

"The fate of pollen in two morphologically contrasting buzz-pollinated Solanum flowers" by Vasquez-Castro et al. freshly published! doi.org/10.26786/192...

Extremely interesting opinion piece by MacIvor & Irwin on "Mail-order solitary bee cocoons as a gateway for biological invasion": doi.org/10.26786/192...

The second one comes from India, looking at Bee diversity in apple orchards of the Lower Himalaya: research synthesis, a new field study, and future needs - by Virkar et al.: doi.org/10.26786/192...

Two new papers out from very different regions: the first one investigates how Timing of flowering affects pollination of Viburnum edule in Alaskan boreal forest by Kornhauser & Mulder: doi.org/10.26786/192...

Paying attention to the correct sequence of numbers is important! Find out why in this freshly published paper by Symington & Rockx: A pervasive typographical error in an equation for calculating nectar density is likely to have limited consequences - doi.org/10.26786/192...

An exceptionally rich issue just published in JPE, with a wide variety of high-quality articles, 3 methodology papers with potential to become standard ref. & thought-provoking commentaries to spark discussion on pollinator monitoring: www.pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...

An exceptionally rich issue just published in JPE, with a wide variety of high-quality articles, 3 methodology papers with potential to become standard ref. & thought-provoking commentaries to spark discussion on pollinator monitoring: www.pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...

The response by Potts et al. to the comment published yesterday (Krahner et al.) is now online as well! :
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And here is a comment by Krahner et al. on the Proposal for an EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (EUPoMS), where they ask for explaining the exclusion of pan traps: doi.org/10.26786/192...

A new article in JPE by Visser et al. compares citizen science and academic surveys: doi.org/10.26786/192...

Another important methodology paper just published by Pattrick et al. to clarify once and for all "The concentration and energetic content of floral nectar sugars: calculation, conversions, and common confusions" doi.org/10.26786/192...

New paper by Etter et al. on "Rare plant’s need for native pollinators threatened by invasive plant-pollinator relationship": doi.org/10.26786/192...

Methods paper by Ollerton et al. on how to improve data quality of plant-pollinator relationships in large data bases that would be worthwhile to become a standard for pollination research! doi.org/10.26786/192...

New article out by Camilo et al. comparing bee assemblages on two mass-flowering tree species in urban and exurban sites: doi.org/10.26786/192...

New publication from Kenya on Annual diversity of honeybee pollen sources in two pumpkin growing landscapes by Wekhanya et al.: doi.org/10.26786/192...

Here is the very first publication of the SCAPE joint special issue of JPE with @nordicjbotany.bsky.social (scheduled late 2025/early 2026) - an extremely well-thought editorial by James Thomson on how we should think about the pollination crisis: doi.org/10.26786/192...

And another new publication on a nursery pollinator - weevil - on dwarf palm by Moreno et al.: doi.org/10.26786/192...

Freshly published: a short survey of floral visitor interactions on nineteen summer-blooming plant species by Ruppel & Trapp: doi.org/10.26786/192...

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

When planting ornamental plants, consider their attractiveness to wild and domesticated bees. Figure out in a new publication by Verweij et al. what is important: doi.org/10.26786/192...

Coffee lovers! Here is one for you 😉: May caffeine also improve bumble bee performance? Find it out in a new publication by Arnold et al.: doi.org/10.26786/192...

2025 starts with a methodology publication by Ștefan et al. on Utilising affordable smartphones and open-source time-lapse photography for pollinator image collection and annotation - Happy new year!
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The latest volume N°37 of JPE is now just published including four excellent articles, two short communications and a historical note (orbituary). Find it here:
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New publication by Carrera & Baquero that investigates the pollination ecology of Altensteinia fimbriata, a terrestrial orchid prevalent in disturbed habitats from the neotropics. doi.org/10.26786/192...