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Ben Darvill
Researcher at University of Stirling
Publications - 40
Citations - 4938
Ben Darvill is an academic researcher from University of Stirling. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bumblebee & Population. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 40 publications receiving 4424 citations. Previous affiliations of Ben Darvill include University of Southampton & British Trust for Ornithology.
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Decline and conservation of bumble bees
TL;DR: Suggested measures include tight regulation of commercial bumble bee use and targeted use of environmentally comparable schemes to enhance floristic diversity in agricultural landscapes to prevent further declines.
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Causes of rarity in bumblebees
TL;DR: Overall, Fabaceae appear to be the major pollen source for most bumblebee species, but long-tongued, late emerging species such as Bombus ruderatus, Bombus humilis and Bombus subterraneus specialize heavily in gathering pollen from Fabaceae, and this group of bumblebees species have all declined.
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Can alloethism in workers of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, be explained in terms of foraging efficiency?
Dave Goulson,James Peat,Jane C. Stout,James H. R. Tucker,Ben Darvill,Lara C. Derwent,William O. H. Hughes +6 more
TL;DR: This work established whether workers of the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris (L.) (Hymenoptera; Apidae), exhibit alloethism, and quantified the size of workers engaging in foraging compared to those that remain in the nest, and confirmed that it is the larger bees that tend to forage.
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Niche overlap and diet breadth in bumblebees; are rare species more specialized in their choice of flowers?
Dave Goulson,Ben Darvill +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the rare species of bumblebees may be those with short colony cycles, in which dependence on high quality food to rear larvae quickly forces specialization.
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Use of genetic markers to quantify bumblebee foraging range and nest density
TL;DR: A landscape-scale microsatellite study is used to estimate the foraging range and nesting density of two ecologically dissimilar species, B. terrestris and B. pascuorum, and provides the first published estimates of the number of colonies using a circle of radius 50 m in an agricultural landscape.