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Publications

2024

Parry C, Turnbull C, Barter L & Gill RJ (2024) Shedding light on pollination deficits: cueing into plant spectral reflectance signatures to monitor pollination delivery across landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology

Palmer J, Samuelson AE, Gill RJ, Leadbeater E & Jansen VAA (2024) Foraging distance distributions reveal how honeybee waggle dance recruitment varies with landscape. Nature Communications Biology

Ewers et al. [incl. Gill RJ] (2024) Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate. Nature, 631, 808–813.

Veiga Cosme L, … Gill RJ,… & Caccone A (2024) A genotyping array for the globally invasive vector mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Parasites & Vectors

Cantwell-Jones A, Tylianakis JM, Larson K & Gill RJ (2024) Using individual-based trait frequency distributions to forecast plant-pollinator network responses to environmental change. Ecology Letters.

2023

Liu Y, Olsson A, Larva T, Cantwell-Jones A, Gill RJ, Cederberg B & Webster M (2023) Genomic variation in mountain bumblebees in Scandinavia: High levels of intraspecific diversity despite population vulnerability. Molecular Ecology.

Johansson J, Arce A & Gill RJ (2023) How competition between overlapping generations can influence optimal egg-laying strategies in annual social insects. Oecologia

Lakeman-Fraser P, Colluci-Gray L, Robinson A, Sforzi A, Staples-Rolf R, Newman J, Gill RJ, Sharma N, Rueger S & Siddharthan A (2023) X-Polli:Nation: Contributing towards sustainable development goals through school-based pollinator citizen science. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

Kenna D, Graystock P & Gill RJ (2023) Toxic temperatures: Bee behaviours exhibit divergent pesticide toxicity relationships with warming. Global Change Biology

Cantwell‐Jones A, Larson K, Ward A, Bates OK, Cox T, Gibbons C, Richardson R, Al‐Hayali AMR, Svedin J, Aronsson M, Brannlund F, Tylianakis JM, Johansson J & Gill RJ (2023) Mapping trait versus species turnover reveals spatiotemporal variation in functional redundancy and network robustness in a plant‐pollinator community. Functional Ecology, 37, 748-762

 

Arce AN*, Cantwell-Jones A*, (+20 co-authors) & Gill RJ (2023). Signatures of increasing environmental stress in bumblebee wings over the past century: Insights from museum specimens, J. Animal Ecology, 92, 297-309

Mullin (14 authors), Gill RJ & Barnes I (2023). First large-scale quantification study of DNA preservation in insects from natural history collections using genome-wide sequencing. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, 14, 360-371

2022

Yordanova M, Evison SEF, Gill RJ & Graystock P (2022) The threat of pesticide and disease co-exposure to managed and wild bee larvae. International Journal for Parasitology, 17, 319

 

Colgan TJ, Arce AN, Gill RJ, Ramos Rodrigues A, Kanteh A, Duncan EJ, Li L, Chittka L & Wurm Y (2022) Genomic signatures of recent adaptation in a wild bumblebee. Molecular Biology & Evolution, 39, msab366.

 

Watrobska CM, Ramos Rodrigues A, Arce AN, Clarke J & Gill RJ (2022) Pollen source richness may be a poor predictor of bumblebee colony growth. Frontiers in Insect Science, 1, 741349.

2021

Kenna D, Pawar S & Gill RJ (2021) Thermal flight performance reveals impact of warming on bumblebee foraging potential. Functional Ecology, 35, 2508-2522

Rother L, Kraft N, Smith DB, el Jundi B, Gill RJ & Pfeiffer K (2021) A micro-CT based standard brain atlas of the bumblebee. Cell & Tissue Research, 386, 29-45

2020

Samuelson A, Gill RJ & Leadbeater E (2020) Urbanisation is associated with reduced Nosema sp. infection, higher colony strength and higher richness of foraged pollen in honeybees. Apidologie, 51, 746-762

Smith DB, Arce AN, Ramos Rodrigues A, Bischoff PH, Burris D, Ahmed F & Gill RJ (2020) Insecticide exposure during brood or early-adult development reduces brain growth and impairs adult learning in bumblebees. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2442 

 

2019

Kenna D*, Cooley H*, Pretelli I, Ramos Rodrigues A, Gill SD & Gill RJ (2019) Pesticide exposure affects flight dynamics and reduces flight endurance in bumblebees. Ecology & Evolution

Colgan TJ*, Fletcher I*, Arce AN*, Gill RJ, Ramos Rodrigues A, Stolle E, Chittka L & Wurm Y (2019) Caste- and pesticide-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticide exposure on gene expression in bumblebees. Molecular Ecology

2018

Arce AN, Ramos Rodrigues A, Yu J, Colgan TJ, Wurm Y & Gill RJ (2018) Foraging bumblebees acquire a preference for neonicotinoid treated food with prolonged exposure. Proc. Roy. Soc. B

Samuelson AE, Gill RJ, Brown MJF & Leadbeater E (accepted) Lower bumblebee colony reproductive success in agricultural compared with urban environments. Proc. Roy. Soc. B

Gray R, Ewers R, Boyle MJW, Chung AYC & Gill RJ (2018). Effect of tropical forest disturbance on the competitive interactions within a diverse ant community. Scientific Reports.

 

2017

Arce AN, David TI, Randall EL, Rodrigues AR, Colgan TJ, Wurm Y & Gill RJ (2017). Impact of controlled neonicotinoid exposure on bumblebees in a realistic field setting. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54, 1199-1208

 

Up to 2016

Bohan DA, Landuyt D, Ma A, Macfadyen S, Martinet V, Massol F, McInerny G, Montoya JM, Mulder C, Pascual U, Pocock MJO, White P, Blanchemanche S, Bonkowski M, Bretagnolle V, Bronmark C, Dicks L, Dumbrell A, Eisenhauer N, Friberg N, Gessner MO, Gill RJ, Gray C, Haughton A, Ibanez S, Jensen J, Jeppesen E, Jokela J, Lacroix G, Lannou C, Lavorel S, Le Galliard J-F, Lescourret F, Liu S, Loeuille N, McLaughlin O, Muggleton S, Penuelas J, Petanidou T, Petit S, Pomati F, Raffaelli D, Rasmussen J, Raybould A, Reboud X, Richard G, Scherber C, Scheu S, Sutherland WJ, Tamaddoni-Nezhad A, ter Braak C, Termansen M, Thompson MSA, Tscharntke T, Vacher C, van der Geest H, Voigt W, Vonk JA, Zhou X & Woodward G (2016). Networking our way to better ecosystem service provision. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31, 105-115

 

Gill RJ, Baldock KCR, Brown MJF, Cresswell JE, Dicks LV, Fountain MT, Garratt MPD, Gough LA, Heard MS, Holland JM, Ollerton J, Stone GN, Tang CQ, Vanbergen AJ, Vogler AP, Woodward G, Arce AN, Boatman ND, Brand-Hardy R, Breeze TD, Green M, Hartfield CM, O'Connor RS, Osborne JL, Phillips J, Sutton PB & Potts SG (2016). Protecting an ecosystem service: approaches to understanding and mitigating threats to wild insect pollinators. Advances in Ecological Research, 54, 135-206

 

Samuelson EEW, Chen-Wishart ZP, Gill RJ & Leadbeater E (2016) Effect of acute pesticide exposure on bee spatial working memory using an analogue of the radial-arm maze. Scientific Reports, 6, 38957

 

Smith DB, Bernhardt G, Raine NE, Abel RL, Sykes D, Ahmed F, Pedroso I & Gill RJ (2016) Exploring miniature insect brains using micro-CT scanning techniques. Scientific Reports, 6, 21768

 

Raine NE & Gill RJ (2015) Tasteless pesticides affect bees in the field. Nature, 521, 38-40

 

Gill RJ & Raine NE (2014) Chronic impairment of bumblebee natural foraging behaviour induced by sublethal pesticide exposure. Functional Ecology, 28, 1459-1471

 

Bryden J, Gill RJ, Mitton RAA, Raine NE & Jansen VAA (2013) Chronic sublethal stress causes bee colony failure. Ecology Letters, 16, 1463-1469

 

Gill RJ, Ramos-Rodriguez O & Raine NE (2012) Combined pesticide exposure severely affects individual- and colony-level traits in bees. Nature, 491, 105-108

 

Coston DJ*, Gill RJ* & Hammond RL (2011) No evidence of volatile chemicals regulating reproduction in a multiple queen ant. Naturwissenchaften, 98, 625-629

 

Gill RJ & Hammond RL (2011) Workers determine queen inheritance of reproduction in a functionally monogynous ant population. Animal Behaviour, 82, 119-129

Gill RJ & Hammond RL (2011) Workers influence royal reproduction. Proc. Roy. Soc. B, 278, 1524-1531

 

Gill RJ, Arce A, Keller L & Hammond RL (2009) Polymorphic social organization in an ant. Proc. Roy. Soc. B, 276, 4423-4431

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