Publications

Dandelion pollen grains, macro shot of a bumblebee head and poppy flower

Selected publications

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Sepúlveda, Y., Nicholls, E., Schuett, W., & Goulson, D. (2024). Heatwave-like events affect drone production and brood-care behaviour in bumblebees. , 12, e17135.

Griffiths-Lee, J., Nicholls, E., & Goulson, D. (2023). Sow Wild! Effective Methods and Identification Bias in Pollinator-Focused Experimental Citizen Science. . 

Leah Salm (2023) Community gardens in Brighton- report of online survey results. Read a two-page summary of the findings here. 

Nicholls, E., Griffiths-Lee, J., Basu, P., Chatterjee, S. & Goulson, D. (2023) Crop-pollinator interactions in urban and peri-urban farms in the UK.

Griffiths-Lee, J., Nicholls, E., & Goulson, D. (2023) Sow Wild! Effective methods and identification bias in pollinator-focused experimental citizen science. .

Nicholls, E., Rands, S., Botias, C., Hempel de Ibarra, N. (2022) Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behaviour perspective. , 377, 20210157.

Griffiths-Lee, J. Davenport, B., Foster, B., Nicholls, E., & Goulson, D. (2022) Sown wildflowers between vines increase beneficial insect abundance and richness in a British vineyard. . 

Griffiths-Lee, J., Goulson, D. & Nicholls, E. (2022) Grape expectations: a survey of British vineyard land management practices from an environmental perspective. , 15. 

Griffiths-Lee, J., Nicholls, E., & Goulson, D. (2022). Sown mini-meadows increase pollinator diversity in gardens. , 1-16.

Goulson, D., & Nicholls, E. (2022). Anthropogenic influences on bee foraging. , 375(6584), 970-972.

Nicholls, E., Rossi, M., & Niven, J. E. (2021). Larval nutrition impacts survival to adulthood, body size, and the allometric scaling of metabolic rate in adult honeybees. , 224, jeb242393.

Nicholls, E., Ely, A., Birkin, L., Basu, P., & Goulson, D. (2020). The contribution of small-scale food production in urban areas to the sustainable development goals: A review and case study. , 1-15.

Griffiths鈥怢ee, J., Nicholls, E., & Goulson, D. (2020). Companion planting to attract pollinators increases the yield and quality of strawberry fruit in gardens and allotments. , 45(5), 1025-1034.

Nicholls, E., Krishna, S., Wright, O., Stabler, D., Krefft, A., Somanathan, H., & de Ibarra, N. H. (2019). A matter of taste: the adverse effect of pollen compounds on the pre-ingestive gustatory experience of sugar solutions for honeybees. , 205(3), 333-346.

Nicholls, E., Botias, C., Rotheray, E. L., Whitehorn, P., David, A., Fowler, R., ... & Goulson, D. (2018). Monitoring neonicotinoid exposure for bees in rural and peri-urban areas of the UK during the transition from pre-to post-moratorium.  52(16), 9391-9402.

Balamurali, G. S., Nicholls, E., Somanathan, H., & de Ibarra, N. H. (2018). A comparative analysis of colour preferences in temperate and tropical social bees. , 105(1-2), 8.

Nicholls, E., Fowler, R., Niven, J. E., Gilbert, J. D., & Goulson, D. (2017). Larval exposure to field-realistic concentrations of clothianidin has no effect on development rate, over-winter survival or adult metabolic rate in a solitary bee, Osmia bicornis. , 5, e3417.

Nicholls, E., & Hempel de Ibarra, N. (2017). Assessment of pollen rewards by foraging bees.  31(1), 76-87.

Goulson, D., Nicholls, E., Botías, C., & Rotheray, E. L. (2015). Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers. , 347(6229).

Nicholls, E. K., Ehrendreich, D., & Hempel de Ibarra, N. (2015). Differences in color learning between pollen-and sucrose-rewarded bees. y, 8(4), e1052921.

Nicholls, E., & de Ibarra, N. H. (2014). Bees associate colour cues with differences in pollen rewards. , 217(15), 2783-2788.

Nicholls, E., & De Ibarra, N. H. (2013). Pollen elicits proboscis extension but does not reinforce PER learning in honeybees. , 4(4), 542-557.