A5029039445- Plant and animal studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Probability and Statistical Research
- Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
University of Mons
2014-2019
Université Libre de Bruxelles
2014-2019
Advanced Neural Dynamics (United States)
2015
Larvae and imagos of bees rely exclusively on floral rewards as a food source but host-plant range can vary greatly among bee species. While oligolectic species forage pollen from single family host plants, polylectic bees, such bumblebees, collect many families plants. These contend with interspecific variability in essential nutrients their host-plants we have only limited understanding the way which chemicals chemical combinations influence development feeding behaviour. In this paper,...
Abstract Bumblebees are valuable pollinators of numerous wild and cultivated plants. They can forage on variable pollen resources. As some species lack particular nutrients or have global low nutritional quality, it has been suggested that bumblebees mix their incomes to ensure a balanced diet. The hypothesis mixed diet better supports bumblebee colony development than single poorly explored. We compared the impact mono‐, di‐ trifloral diets microcolony Bombus terrestris using three...
Journal Article Growth Rate of Bumblebee Larvae is Related to Pollen Amino Acids Get access Romain Moerman, Moerman 3 1 Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, F. Roosevelt 50, Brussels, Belgium, 1050 ( romain.moerman@ulb.ac.be ; denis.fournier@ulb.ac.be ), 2 Research Institute for Biosciences, Laboratory Zoology, University Mons, Place du Parc, 7000 maryse.vanderplanck@umons.ac.be nathalie.roger@umons.ac.be sylvain.decleves@hotmail.com pierre.rasmont@umons.ac.be...
Several bee species are experiencing significant population declines. As bees exclusively rely on pollen for development and survival, such declines could be partly related to changes in their host plant abundance quality. Here, we investigate whether generalist bumblebee species, with stable trends over the past years, adapted diets response distribution chemical quality of resources. We selected five common NW Europe which had a precise description diet through two time periods ('prior...
Bumblebees (i.e. Bombus genus) are major pollinators of flowering wild plants and crops. Although many species currently in decline, a number them remain stable or even expanding. One factor potentially driving changes bumblebee distribution is the suitability plant communities. Actually, bees probably have specific nutritional requirements that could shape their floral choices constraint current context global change. However, most studies primarily focus on one at time, making comparative...
Abstract Bumblebees are the predominant wild pollinators for many plant species in temperate regions. A bumblebee colony requires pollen and nectar throughout its lifetime, but degraded fragmented habitats may have gaps temporal spatial continuity of floral resources. Heathlands open biotopes that provide favourable habitat bumblebees like Bombus jonellus , a declining Belgium. In heathlands, ericaceous main plants bumblebees. Although composition has been previously studied, data on remain...
Abstract While many bee species are experiencing population declines, some host plant generalist bees remain common in Europe, partly because they seem able to shift new resources. However, foraging on a alternative plant, such as an invasive species, can modify diet quality and have potentially detrimental effect health. Herein, we investigated whether the spread of Impatiens glandulifera affects Bombus pascuorum regarding parasite prevalence, genetic structure, nest density Belgium. no...