University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2023
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Description:
The transformation and intensified use of the agricultural landscape in central Germany in the past decades has led to the fragmentation and loss of semi-natural habitats, threatening biodiversity including insects. Bees and wasps are highly diverse groups of insects providing ecosystem services such as pollination and pest control. Different species experience the landscape at different scales, have different requirements regarding food and nesting habitats, and show different responses to the exposure to stressors such as insecticides. Calcareous grasslands are biodiversity hotspots in th...