<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Robert!</div><div>And for all, I also attach some papers that I recently came across.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Gishbain et al. 2020:
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">Wildlife conservation strategies should incorporate both taxon identity and geographical context - further evidence with bumblebees</p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">They find species-specific associations with climatic and land cover variables, depicting the strong relevance of taxon-specific mitigation strategies for the conservation of those key pollinators.</p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">2. Outhwaite et al. 2020:</p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">Complex long-term biodiversity change among invertebrates, bryophytes and lichens</p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">In this paper, the authors show how complex biodiversity change is and that the baseline is important.</p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">3. Tamburini et al. 2020:</p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">Agricultural diversification promotes multiple ecosystem services without compromising yield</p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">enjoy reading!</p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">Julia<br></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Fr., 20. Nov. 2020 um 08:27 Uhr schrieb Robert Paxton <<a href="mailto:robert.paxton@zoologie.uni-halle.de">robert.paxton@zoologie.uni-halle.de</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>Please see below for details of a new paper of bee biodiversity across the world.</div><div><br></div><div>Robert</div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Michael Orr <<a href="mailto:michael.christopher.orr@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.christopher.orr@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>New paper on global bee distribution</b><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">20 November 2020 at 01:31:03 CET<br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Michael Orr <<a href="mailto:michael.christopher.orr@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.christopher.orr@gmail.com</a>>, "Alice C. Hughes" <<a href="mailto:Achughes@xtbg.ac.cn" target="_blank">Achughes@xtbg.ac.cn</a>>, "Ascher, John Stoskopf" <<a href="mailto:dbsajs@nus.edu.sg" target="_blank">dbsajs@nus.edu.sg</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues, </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I'm happy to share a new open-access paper with you all on global patterns of bee richness and associated drivers: <a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31596-7" target="_blank">https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31596-7</a> (also attached to this email)</div><div><br></div><div>It was quite a bit of work, not possible without John Ascher and Pick's DiscoverLife checklist and Alice Hughes' invaluable modeling expertise, along with the support of Chao-Dong Zhu and Douglas Chesters. It is difficult to summarize everything contained in this paper but the abstract is as follows (there is much more hidden away in the paper, I promise, especially the supplement): </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Insects are the focus of many recent studies suggesting population declines, but even<br>invaluable pollination service providers such as bees lack a modern distributional<br>synthesis. Here, we combine a uniquely-comprehensive checklist of bee species<br>distributions and >5,800,000 public bee occurrence records to describe global patterns<br>of bee biodiversity. Publicly-accessible records are sparse, especially from developing<br>countries, and are frequently inaccurate throughout much of the world, consequently<br>suggesting different biodiversity patterns from checklist data. Global analyses reveal<br>hotspots of species richness, together generating a rare bimodal latitudinal richness<br>gradient, and further analyses suggest that xeric areas, solar radiation, and non-forest<br>plant productivity are among the most important global drivers of bee biodiversity.<br>Together, our results provide a new baseline and best practices for studies on bees<br>and other understudied invertebrates.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I hope you all enjoy the paper and that it might prove useful for your work. If you have any queries, I am happy to chat further on this subject. This is just a first step and there's much more we can do to improve these models and we definitely want to use higher-resolution in the future. More yet to come! </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-Michael</div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>PS I'm also including PDFs of two taxonomy-centric articles I've put out with collaborators in the last year. Perhaps less broadly-applicable to all of you, but hopefully still appreciated! </font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Julia Osterman</div><div>PhD candidate</div><div>General Zoology<br></div><div>Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg</div><div><a href="mailto:jul.osterman@gmail.com" target="_blank">jul.osterman@gmail.com</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div>Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany</div><div><a href="mailto:julia.goss@ufz.de" target="_blank">julia.osterman@ufz.de</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>