Vincent Bretagnolle

TL;DR: The results suggest that the decline in pollen harvest may have been overlooked as a cause of pollen shortage and associated bee colony losses, and strategies to avoid such losses in intensive farmland systems are suggested.

TL;DR: It is found that anosmia impaired nest recognition only in species that nest in burrows and that return home in darkness, which means petrels showing nocturnal activity on land may rely on their sense of smell to find their burrows, while petRELs showing diurnal activity or surface nesters may disregard olfactory cues in favour of visual guidance.

TL;DR: A special case of spatial cross-validation, spatial leave-one-out (SLOO), giving a criterion equivalent to the AIC in the absence of spatial autocorrelation is proposed, which appears to be a promising solution for selecting relevant variables from most ecological spatial datasets.

TL;DR: The number of recruits significantly increased with increasing alarm rate of the tested individuals, even when taking colony size into account, and the higher recruitment and attack rates for dangerous predators were apparently modulated through alarm calling.

TL;DR: It was found that colony dynamics were largely influenced by the phenology of the main mass-flowering crops foraged by bees, namely oilseed rape and sunflowers, and a sharp food shortage period in late spring was detected, possibly temporarily constraining colony sustainability.