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Overview

James E. Cresswell is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular emphasis on insect science and ecology-related fields.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

  • Insect Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Genetics
  • Social Psychology
  • Developmental Biology

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior

Cresswell has contributed to multiple recent papers. Some notable publications are:

  • "Honeybee colonies compensate for pesticide-induced effects on royal jelly composition and brood survival with increased brood production" (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Moderate pollination limitation in some entomophilous crops of Europe" (2020), published in Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • "Time-dependent effects on bumble bees of dietary exposures to farmland insecticides (imidacloprid, thiamethoxam and fipronil)" (2020), published in Pest Management Science
  • "Does Anthropogenic Influence on Habitats Alter the Activity Budget and Home Range Size of Toque Macaques (Macaca sinica)? Insight into the Human-Macaque Conflict" (2023), published in Trees Forests and People
  • "Eating versus heating: a study of the allocation of workers between foraging and nest incubation in bumble bees" (2021), published in Ecological Entomology

They have frequently published in several journals, including:

  • Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Trees Forests and People
  • Pest Management Science

James E. Cresswell collaborates regularly with several coauthors, especially:

  • Bruce Jennings
  • Louis Sutter
  • Matthias Albrecht
  • Philippe Jeanneret
  • Sonja C. Pfister

Best Publications

  • A meta-analysis of experiments testing the effects of a neonicotinoid insecticide (imidacloprid) on honey bees

    James E. Cresswell

  • Effects of imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid pesticide, on reproduction in worker bumble bees ( Bombus terrestris )

    Ian Laycock;Kate M. Lenthall;Andrew T. Barratt;James E. Cresswell

  • Protecting an ecosystem service: approaches to understanding and mitigating threats to wild insect pollinators

    Richard J. Gill;Katherine C R Baldock;Mark J F Brown;James E. Cresswell

  • An economic model of the limits to foraging range in central place foragers with numerical solutions for bumblebees

    James E. Cresswell;Juliet L. Osborne;David Goulson

  • Stabilizing Selection and the Structural Variability of Flowers within Species

    J. E. Cresswell

  • Differential sensitivity of honey bees and bumble bees to a dietary insecticide (imidacloprid)

    James E. Cresswell;Christopher J. Page;Mehmet B. Uygun;Marie Holmbergh

  • FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SELECTION AND ADAPTIVE SURFACES FOR FLORAL CHARACTER COMBINATIONS: THE POLLINATION OF POLEMONIUM VISCOSUM

    James E. Cresswell;Candace Galen

  • Clearance of ingested neonicotinoid pesticide (imidacloprid) in honey bees (Apis mellifera) and bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)

    James E Cresswell;James E Cresswell;François-Xavier L Robert;Hannah Florance;Nicholas Smirnoff

  • The influence of nectar and pollen availability on pollen transfer by individual flowers of oil-seed rape (Brassica napus) when pollinated by bumblebees (Bombus lapidarius)

    James E. Cresswell

  • Dietary traces of neonicotinoid pesticides as a cause of population declines in honey bees: an evaluation by Hill's epidemiological criteria.

    James E Cresswell;Nicolas Desneux;Dennis vanEngelsdorp

  • Relationship between capitulum size and pre-dispersal seed predation by insect larvae in common Asteraceae

    M. Fenner;J.E. Cresswell;R.A. Hurley;T. Baldwin

  • Effects of the neonicotinoid pesticide thiamethoxam at field-realistic levels on microcolonies of Bombus terrestris worker bumble bees.

    Ian Laycock;Katie C. Cotterell;Thomas A. O’Shea-Wheller;James E. Cresswell

  • The effect of patch size and separation on bumblebee foraging in oilseed rape: implications for gene flow

    James E. Cresswell;Juliet L. Osborne

  • Spatial heterogeneity, pollinator behaviour and pollinator-mediated gene flow: bumblebee movements in variously aggregated rows of oil-seed rape

    James E. Cresswell

  • The influence of pollinator abundance on the dynamics and efficiency of pollination in agricultural Brassica napus: implications for landscape-scale gene dispersal

    Katrina E. Hayter;James E. Cresswell

  • How and why do nectar-foraging bumblebees initiate movements between inflorescences of wild bergamot Monarda fistulosa (Lamiaceae)?

    James E. Cresswell

  • Predicted pollen dispersal by honey-bees and three species of bumble-bees foraging on oil-seed rape : a comparison of three models

    JE Cresswell;AP Bassom;SA Bell;SJ Collins

  • The potential of different semi-natural habitats to sustain pollinators and natural enemies in European agricultural landscapes

    Agustín M. Bartual;Louis Sutter;Gionata Bocci;Anna Camilla Moonen

  • Identifying key knowledge needs for evidence‐based conservation of wild insect pollinators: a collaborative cross‐sectoral exercise

    Lynn V. Dicks;Andrew Abrahams;John Atkinson;Jacobus Biesmeijer;Jacobus Biesmeijer

  • A model of pollinator‐mediated gene flow between plant populations with numerical solutions for bumblebees pollinating oilseed rape

    J. E. Cresswell;J. L. Osborne;S. A. Bell

  • Pollination Ecology: A Practical Approach.

    James Cresswell;A. Dafni

  • Floral Biology: Studies on Floral Evolution in Animal-Pollinated Plants.

    James Cresswell;D. G. Lloyd;S. C. H. Barrett

Frequent Co-Authors

Juliet L. Osborne
Juliet L. Osborne University of Exeter
John M. Holland
John M. Holland Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Martin H. Entling
Martin H. Entling University of Koblenz and Landau
Charles R. Tyler
Charles R. Tyler University of Exeter
Adam J. Vanbergen
Adam J. Vanbergen INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Robert J. Paxton
Robert J. Paxton Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Simon G. Potts
Simon G. Potts University of Reading
Stuart P. M. Roberts
Stuart P. M. Roberts Université Libre de Bruxelles
Lynn V. Dicks
Lynn V. Dicks University of Cambridge

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