Bee conservation
Pollination by bees is one of the most important – and endangered – ecosystems service mainly due to habitat destruction and fragmentation, global warming, pesticides and interaction with alien species. Given the relevance of the subject matter, I used field data to monitor the changes of bees through time in face of crescent urbanization. I am also interested in how global warming will affect bees, in particular bumblebees on the next decades.
Related publications
Martins, A. C., Silva, D. P., De Marco JR., P., Melo, G. A. R. 2015. Species conservation under future climate change: The case of Bombus bellicosus, a potentially threatened South American bumblebee species. Journal of Insect Conservation: 19: 33 - 43
Martins, A. C., Gonçalves, Rodrigo B., Melo, G. A. R. 2013. Changes in wild bee fauna of a grassland in Brazil reveal negative effects associated with growing urbanization during the last 40 years. Zoologia 30: 157 – 176.
Martins, A. C., Melo, G. A. R. 2010. Has the bumblebee Bombus bellicosus gone extinct in the northern portion of its distribution range in Brazil? Journal of Insect Conservation 14: 207 – 210