Research papers and other publications using BWARS data
BWARS is an organisation whose primary aim is to gather data on the distribution on the British and (to an extent) Irish aculeate faunas. The Society recognises that the true value of data is in its use and not its mere possession. To that end, BWARS makes its data available to researchers, conservation organisations, (both statutory and NGO) and other interested parties freely on the simple condition of due acknowledgement. The list below covers publications that have used BWARS data in their analyses, maps, or general content, and it includes a number of highly cited landmark papers in very high Impact Factor journals.
Antonovics, J. and Edwards, M., 2011. Spatio‐temporal dynamics of bumblebee nest parasites (Bombus subgenus Psythirus ssp.) and their hosts (Bombus spp.). Journal of Animal Ecology, 80(5), pp.999-1011.
Archer, M.E. 1979. Provisional Atlas of the insects of the British Isles: Part 9, Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Social Wasps, 2nd ed. Biological Records Centre, Huntingdon.
Benton., E., 2006. Bumblebees: The Natural History & Identification of the Species Found in Britain. Collins, Nature - 580 pages
Biesmeijer, J.C., Roberts, S.P., Reemer, M., Ohlemüller, R., Edwards, M., Peeters, T., Schaffers, A.P., Potts, S.G., Kleukers, R.J.M.C., Thomas, C.D. and Settele, J., 2006. Parallel declines in pollinators and insect-pollinated plants in Britain and the Netherlands. Science, 313(5785), pp.351-354.
Burkmar, R., Council, F.S. and Bridge, M., Monitoring and indicators of UK biodiversity change.
Burns, F., Eaton, M.A., Gregory, R.D., Al Fulaij, N., August, T.A., Biggs, J., Bladwell, S., Brereton, T., Brooks, D.R., Clubbe, C. and Dawson, J., 2013. State of Nature report. The state of nature partnership.
Carvalheiro, L.G., Kunin, W.E., Keil, P., Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, J., Ellis, W.N., Fox, R., Groom, Q., Hennekens, S., Van Landuyt, W., Maes, D. and Van de Meutter, F., 2013. Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW‐European pollinators and plants. Ecology letters, 16(7), pp.870-878.
Carvell, C., Roy, D.B., Smart, S.M., Pywell, R.F., Preston, C.D. and Goulson, D., 2006. Declines in forage availability for bumblebees at a national scale. Biological conservation, 132(4), pp.481-489.
Carvell, C., Isaac, N., Jitlal, M., Peyton, J., Powney, G., Roy, D., Vanbergen, A., O'Connor, R., Jones, C., Kunin, B. and Breeze, T., 2016. Design and testing of a national pollinator and pollination monitoring framework.
Collins, G.A. & Roy, H.E., 2012. Provisional atlas of the aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland. Part 8. Biological Records Centre, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK.
Collins, G.A. & Roy, H.E., 2016. Provisional atlas of the aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland. Part 9. Biological Records Centre, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK.
Collins, G.A. & Roy, H.E., 2019. Provisional atlas of the aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland Part 10. Biological Records Centre, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK.
Dyer, R.J., Gillings, S., Pywell, R.F., Fox, R., Roy, D.B. and Oliver, T.H., 2017. Developing a biodiversity‐based indicator for large‐scale environmental assessment: a case study of proposed shale gas extraction sites in Britain. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(3), pp.872-882
Eaton, M.A., Burns, F., Isaac, N.J., Gregory, R.D., August, T.A., Barlow, K.E., Brereton, T., Brooks, D.R., Al Fulaij, N., Haysom, K.A. and Noble, D.G., 2015. The priority species indicator: measuring the trends in threatened species in the UK. Biodiversity, 16(2-3), pp.108-119.
Edwards, M. and Jenner, M., 2005. Field guide to the bumblebees of Great Britain & Ireland. Ocelli Ltd.
Edwards, R., 1997. Provisional atlas of the aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland, Part 1. Biological Records Centre, Huntingdon.
Edwards, R., 1998. Provisional atlas of the aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland. Part 2. Biological Records Centre, Huntingdon.
Edwards, R. & Telfer, M.G., 2001 Provisional atlas of the aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland, Part 3. Biological Records Centre, Huntingdon.
Edwards, R. & Telfer, M. 2002 Provisional atlas of the aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland. Part 4. Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Edwards, R. & Broad, G.R, 2005. Provisional atlas of the aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland Part 5. Biological Records Centre, Huntingdon, UK.
Edwards, R. & Broad, G.R, 2007. Provisional atlas of the aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland Part 6. Biological Records Centre, Huntingdon, UK.
Edwards, R. & Roy, H.E., 2009. Provisional atlas of the aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland Part 7. 145 pp. Biological Records Centre, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK.
Else, G.R. & Edwards, M., 2018. Handbook of the Bees of the British Isles: Volume 1 & 2. Ray Society.
Falk, S., 2019. Field guide to the bees of Great Britain and Ireland. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Fitzpatrick, Ú., Murray, T.E., Byrne, A.W., Paxton, R.J. and Brown, M.J.F., 2006. Regional red list of Irish bees. National Parks and Wildlife Service (Ireland) and Environment and Heritage Service (N. Ireland).
Hill, C., 2013. Introducing the tree bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum). Bee Craft, 95, pp.17-19.
Kerr, J.T., Pindar, A., Galpern, P., Packer, L., Potts, S.G., Roberts, S.M., Rasmont, P., Schweiger, O., Colla, S.R., Richardson, L.L. and Wagner, D.L., 2015. Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents. Science, 349(6244), pp.177-180.
Marshall, L., Biesmeijer, J.C., Rasmont, P., Vereecken, N.J., Dvorak, L., Fitzpatrick, U., Francis, F., Neumayer, J., Ødegaard, F., Paukkunen, J.P. and Pawlikowski, T., 2018. The interplay of climate and land use change affects the distribution of EU bumblebees. Global change biology, 24(1), pp.101-116.
Matechou, E., Freeman, S.N. and Comont, R., 2018. Caste-specific demography and phenology in bumblebees: modelling BeeWalk data. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 23(4), pp.427-445.
Nieto, A., Roberts, S.P., Kemp, J., Rasmont, P., Kuhlmann, M., Criado, M.G., Biesmeijer, J.C., Bogusch, P., Dathe, H.H., De la Rúa, P. and De Meulemeester, T., 2017. European red list of bees.
Ollerton, J., Erenler, H., Edwards, M. and Crockett, R., 2014. Extinctions of aculeate pollinators in Britain and the role of large-scale agricultural changes. Science, 346(6215), pp.1360-1362.
Pocock, M.J., Newson, S.E., Henderson, I.G., Peyton, J., Sutherland, W.J., Noble, D.G., Ball, S.G., Beckmann, B.C., Biggs, J., Brereton, T., and Bullock, D.J., 2015. Developing and enhancing biodiversity monitoring programmes: a collaborative assessment of priorities. Journal of Applied Ecology, 52(3), pp.686-695.
Prŷs-Jones, O.E., 2014. The Tree Bumble Bee (Bombus hypnorum) as a house sparrow equivalent? Comments on colonizing success in Britain in the context of declining native species. Bee World, 91(4), pp.98-101.
Rasmont, P., Franzén, M., Lecocq, T., Harpke, A., Roberts, S.P., Biesmeijer, J.C., Castro, L., Cederberg, B., Dvorak, L., Fitzpatrick, Ú. and Gonseth, Y., 2015. Climatic risk and distribution atlas of European bumblebees (Vol. 10, pp. 1-236). Pensoft Publishers.
Rasmont, P., Ghisbain, G. and Terzo, M., 2021. Bumblebees of Europe and neighbouring regions. NAP editions, Verrières-le-Buisson, pp.1-638.
Rasmont P. Roberts S.P.M., Michez D., Schweiger O., Franzen M., De Meulemeester T., Tomozei B. & Radchenko V. 2013. Atlas of the European Bees: genus Andrena. 1st Edition. STEP Project, Atlas Hymenoptera, Mons, Gembloux. http://www.atlashymenoptera.net/page.aspx?ID=243
Redhead, J.W., Woodcock, B.A., Pocock, M.J., Pywell, R.F., Vanbergen, A.J. and Oliver, T.H., 2018. Potential landscape‐scale pollinator networks across Great Britain: structure, stability and influence of agricultural land cover. Ecology letters, 21(12), pp.1821-1832.
Senapathi, D., Carvalheiro, L.G., Biesmeijer, J.C., Dodson, C.A., Evans, R.L., McKerchar, M., Morton, R.D., Moss, E.D., Roberts, S.P., Kunin, W.E. and Potts, S.G., 2015. The impact of over 80 years of land cover changes on bee and wasp pollinator communities in England. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1806), p.20150294.
Soroye, P., Newbold, T. and Kerr, J., 2020. Climate change contributes to widespread declines among bumble bees across continents. Science, 367(6478), pp.685-688.
Thomas, J.A., Edwards, M., Simcox, D.J., Powney, G.D., August, T.A. and Isaac, N.J., 2015. Recent trends in UK insects that inhabit early successional stages of ecosystems. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 115(3), pp.636-646.
Uustal, M., Peterson, K., Luig, J., Roberts, S.P. and Dendoncker, N., 2009. Historical land use and pollinator diversity: a comparative study of bumblebees in Kent County (UK) and Tartu County (Estonia). Biodiversity risks with socio-economic methods: The ALARM experience p.205.
Woodcock, B.A., Bullock, J.M., Shore, R.F., Heard, M.S., Pereira, M.G., Redhead, J., Ridding, L., Dean, H., Sleep, D., Henrys, P. and Peyton, J., 2017. Country-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees and wild bees. Science, 356(6345), pp.1393-1395.
Woodcock, B.A., Harrower, C., Redhead, J., Edwards, M., Vanbergen, A.J., Heard, M.S., Roy, D.B. and Pywell, R.F., 2014. National patterns of functional diversity and redundancy in predatory ground beetles and bees associated with key UK arable crops. Journal of Applied Ecology, 51(1), pp.142-151.