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Kit Prendergast

Native bee ecologist

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Publications

  • Beyond ecosystem services as justification for biodiversity conservation
  • Scientific note: mass-nesting of a native bee Hylaeus (Euprosopoides) ruficeps kalamundae (Cockerell, 1915) (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Hylaeinae) in polystyrene
  • Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
  • Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
  • New records of bee fly (Diptera: Bombyliidae) and mite (Acari: Pyemotidae) parasites of Australian megachile bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Western Australia
  • Squamata - Lizards: Cryptoblepharus buchananii (fence skink). bee hotels as resources
  • Responses of Domestic Horses and Ponies to Single, Combined and Conflicting Visual and Auditory Cues
  • Is the loss of australian digging mammals contributing to a deterioration in ecosystem function?
  • Importance of bushland remnants and honeybee competition for native bees in urban Western Australia
  • Australia’s Digging Mammals as Ecosystem Engineers: Implications for Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration
  • Establishment of the East Australian masked bee Hylaeus Nubilosus (Smith) (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Hylaeinae) in Western Australia
  • Intra and interspecific interactions involving Mergolossa rubricata at bee blocks in urbanised south-western Australia
  • The biodiversity of native bees in the ‘burbs and how to conserve them
  • The first nesting observations of a potter wasp Rhynchium superbum (Vespidae, Eumenidae) – a recent eastern invader inhabiting the suburbs of Perth Western Australia
  • Bushland fragments vs. residential gardens: which are better for native bees in a biodiversity hotspot?
  • A Further Record and Observations of the Flowerpot Snake Indotyphlops braminus in Suburban Perth
  • Euryglossina (Euryglossina) perpusilla (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Euryglossinae) nesting in pre-formed cavities in Banksia attenuata (Proteaceae)
  • Urban domestic gardens support populations an anthrophilic native bee Leioproctus (Leioproctus) plumosus: Supplementary Material videos
  • The relative performance of sampling methods for native bees: an empirical test and review of the literature
  • Interactions between the introduced European honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild.
  • Nesting biology of megachileignita smith, 1853 (hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in artificial nesting blocks in urbanised Southwestern Australia
  • Flawed methods beleaguer bee studies
  • Honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) outnumber native bees in Tasmanian apple orchards: Perspectives for balancing crop production and native bee conservation
  • Plant-pollinator networks in Australian urban bushland remnants are not structurally equivalent to those in residential gardens
  • Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
  • Priorities for conservation of Australia's native flora: achievements and proposals for improvement
  • Defending biodiversity through our diets
  • Critiquing the notion of a species natural range in an era of unprecedented change
  • First records of the introduced African carder bee, Pseudoanthidium (Immanthidium) repetitum (Hymenoptera:Megachilidae), in Western Australia
  • Defending biodiversity through our diets
  • Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020
  • A framework and case study to systematically identify long-term insect abundance and diversity datasets
  • DNA Metabarcoding identifies urban foraging patterns of oligolectic and polylectic cavity-nesting bees
  • DNA Metabarcoding identifies urban foraging patterns of oligolectic and polylectic cavity-nesting bees
  • Screening Canola Genotypes for Resistance to Ammonium Toxicity
  • Plant-pollinator network interaction matrices and flowering plant species composition in urban bushland remnants and residential gardens in the southwest Western Australian biodiversity hotspot
  • Species of native bees in the urbanised region of the southwest Western Australian biodiversity hotspot
  • Publications used to review the relative effectiveness of different methods for sampling bees in "The relative performance of sampling methods for native bees: an empirical test and review of the literature"
  • Checking in at bee hotels: trap-nesting occupancy and fitness of cavity-nesting bees in an urbanised biodiversity hotspot
  • Native flora receive more visits than exotics from bees, especially native bees, in an urbanised biodiversity hotspot
  • Monitoring the birds and the bees: Environmental DNA metabarcoding of flowers detects plant–animal interactions
  • Global taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of bees in apple orchards
  • Urban native vegetation remnants support more diverse native bee communities than residential gardens in Australia's southwest biodiversity hotspot
  • Spatial and temporal scale of analysis alter conclusions about the effects of urbanisation on plant–pollinator networks
  • Impacts of the introduced European honeybee on Australian bee‐flower network properties in urban bushland remnants and residential gardens
  • A solitary wild bee Megachile oblonga nesting in honey bee wax combs
  • The evidence for and against competition between the European honeybee and Australian native bees
  • A global review of determinants of native bee assemblages in urbanised landscapes
  • Leioproctus zephyr Prendergast (Hymenoptera, Colletidae, Leioproctus), an oligoletic new bee species with a distinctive clypeus
  • Assessing climate change impacts on pollinators
  • Natural history note: Urban domestic gardens support nesting populations of the native bee Leioproctus (Leioproctus) plumosus
  • A solitary wild bee Megachile oblonga nesting in honey bee wax combs
  • Bee hotels to boost bees after bushfires Final Report. BRCG000116 Bushfire Recovery for Wildlife & Habitat Community Grants Program.
  • The Influence of Plant Species, Origin and Color of Garden Nursery Flowers on the Number and Composition of Pollinating Insect Visitors
  • Effective bee conservation in China requires more research and expert engagement.
  • Xanthesma (Xenohesma) perpulchra and Xanthesma (Xanthesma) brachycera are conspecific based on DNA barcodes
  • Pollination crisis Down‐Under: Has Australasia dodged the bullet?
  • Continental risk assessment for understudied taxa post‐catastrophic wildfire indicates severe impacts on the Australian bee fauna
  • Interactions between the introduced European honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild
  • FORUM: Methodological shortcomings and lack of taxonomic effort beleaguer Australian bee studies
  • Natural history note: Urban domestic gardens support nesting populations of the native bee Leioproctus (Leioproctus) plumosus
  • Creating testable questions in practical conservation: a process and 100 questions
  • Erratum: Interactions between the introduced European honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild (Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2021) 133:3 (725-743) DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blab024)
  • The effect of elevation, latitude, and plant richness on robustness of pollination networks at a global scale
  • Global Taxonomic, Functional, and Phylogenetic Biogeography of Bees in Apple Orchards
  • Spontaneous choices for insect-pollinated flower shapes by wild non-eusocial halictid bees
  • Bee representations in human art and culture through the ages
  • DNA metabarcoding identifies urban foraging patterns of oligolectic and polylectic cavity-nesting bees
  • Potential and pitfalls of citizen science with children: Reflections on Pollinators in the Playground project
  • Five good reasons not to dismiss scientific binomial nomenclature in conservation, environmental education and citizen science: A case study with bees
  • Natural history note: Urban domestic gardens support nesting populations of the native bee Leioproctus (Leioproctus) plumosus
  • Pollen deprivation stimulates Honeybees Apis mellifera to induce early flowering in tomato plants
  • Euryglossina (Euryglossina) perpusilla (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Euryglossinae) nesting in pre-formed cavities in Banksia attenuata (Proteaceae)
  • Corrigendum to: Interactions between the introduced European honey bee and native bees in urban areas varies by year, habitat type and native bee guild
  • A framework and case study to systematically identify long‐term insect abundance and diversity datasets
  • Supplementary files for paper submission
  • Supplementary files for paper submission
  • Corymbia calophylla (Marri) (K. D. Hill & L. A. S. Johnson) (Myrtaceae) is a major resource for native bees in the southwest western Australian biodiversity hotspot
  • Water Deprivation and Sowing Times Alter Plant–Pollination Interactions and Seed Yield in Sunflower, Helianthus annuus L. (Asteraceae)

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