Birgit Jauker

TL;DR: A new database of more than 1.6 million samples from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing spatial comparisons of local-scale biodiversity exposed to different intensities and types of anthropogenic pressures, from terrestrial sites around the world is described and assessed.

TL;DR: The PREDICTS project as discussed by the authors provides a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use.

TL;DR: The results show that oilseed rape effects on bee abundances and pollination success in seminatural habitats depend on the spatial and temporal scale considered and on the habitat type, the wild plant species, and the time of crop flowering.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined syrphid abundance (Diptera: Syrphidae) in three types of linear semi-naturalhabitats, differing in connectedness to annual crops and forest [forest edges, forest-connected hedges and isolated hedges], as well as in adjacent oilseed rape or winter wheat fields.

TL;DR: It is concluded that mass‐flowering crops, despite covering only a short interval of the community's main activity phase, benefit bee and wasp species richness, however, seminatural habitats are crucial in maintaining viable communities of flower‐visiting insects at the landscape scale, mitigating potential negative effects of high land‐use intensities in modern agro‐ecosystems.