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Jeff Ollerton is affiliated with the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in Environmental Science. Their work spans subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science, and Genetics.

The main research topics covered by Jeff Ollerton include Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Animal and Plant Science Education.

Recent publications by Jeff Ollerton cover a range of ecological and environmental issues. Notable papers include:

  • "Global effects of land-use intensity on local pollinator biodiversity," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Food System Resilience: Concepts, Issues, and Challenges," 2022, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • "The origins of flowering plants and pollinators," 2020, Science
  • "Key tropical crops at risk from pollinator loss due to climate change and land use," 2023, Science Advances
  • "An empirical attack tolerance test alters the structure and species richness of plant-pollinator networks," 2020, Functional Ecology

Jeff Ollerton collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, including André Rodrigo Rech, Kit Prendergast, Mariano Devoto, Gudryan Jackson Barônio, and Antônio Mauro Saraiva.

Their publications appear regularly in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Urban Ecosystems, Science, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), and Austral Ecology.

Best Publications

  • How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals

    Jeff Ollerton;Rachael Winfree;Sam Tarrant;Sam Tarrant

  • Generalization in pollination systems, and why it matters

    Nickolas M. Waser;Lars Chittka;Mary V. Price;Neal M. Williams

  • Pollinator Diversity: Distribution, Ecological Function, and Conservation

    Jeff Ollerton

  • The city as a refuge for insect pollinators.

    Damon M. Hall;Gerardo R. Camilo;Rebecca K. Tonietto;Jeff Ollerton

  • Plant-pollinator interactions: from specialization to generalization.

    Nickolas Merritt Waser;Jeff Ollerton

  • A global test of the pollination syndrome hypothesis.

    Jeff Ollerton;Ruben Alarcón;Ruben Alarcón;Ruben Alarcón;Nickolas M. Waser;Nickolas M. Waser;Nickolas M. Waser;Mary V. Price;Mary V. Price;Mary V. Price

  • Extinctions of aculeate pollinators in Britain and the role of large-scale agricultural changes

    Jeff Ollerton;Hilary E Erenler;Mike Edwards;Robin G M Crockett

  • Year‐to‐year variation in the topology of a plant–pollinator interaction network

    Ruben Alarcón;Nickolas M. Waser;Jeff Ollerton

  • Meta-analysis of phenotypic selection on flowering phenology suggests that early flowering plants are favoured.

    Miguel A. Munguía-Rosas;Miguel A. Munguía-Rosas;Jeff Ollerton;Victor Parra-Tabla;J. Arturo De-Nova

  • Multiple meanings and modes: on the many ways to be a generalist flower

    Jeff Ollerton;Ant Killick;Ellen Lamborn;Stella Watts

  • Reconciling ecological processes with phylogenetic patterns: the apparent paradox of plant-pollinator systems.

    Jeff Ollerton

  • Relationships between flowering phenology, plant size and reproductive success in Lotus corniculatus (Fabaceae)

    Jeff Ollerton;Andrew Lack

  • The pollination ecology of an assemblage of grassland asclepiads in South Africa.

    Jeff Ollerton;Steven D. Johnson;Louise Cranmer;Sam Kellie

  • Global effects of land-use intensity on local pollinator biodiversity.

    Joseph Millard;Charlotte L. Outhwaite;Robyn Kinnersley;Robin Freeman

  • Latitudinal trends in plant‐pollinator interactions: are tropical plants more specialised?

    Jeff Ollerton;Louise Cranmer

  • Flowering phenology: An example of relaxation of natural selection?

    J. Ollerton;A.J. Lack

  • Landscape structure influences pollinator movements and directly affects plant reproductive success

    Louise Cranmer;Duncan McCollin;Jeff Ollerton

  • 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

  • Pollination ecology in the 21st Century: Key questions for future research

    Carolin Mayer;Lynn Adler;W. Scott Armbruster;Amots Dafni

  • Specialization in Plant-Hummingbird Networks Is Associated with Species Richness, Contemporary Precipitation and Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity

    Bo Dalsgaard;Bo Dalsgaard;Bo Dalsgaard;Else Magård;Jon Fjeldså;Ana M. Martín González

  • Is the notion that species interactions are stronger and more specialized in the tropics a zombie idea

    Angela T. Moles;Jeff Ollerton

Frequent Co-Authors

Bo Dalsgaard
Bo Dalsgaard University of Copenhagen
Nickolas M. Waser
Nickolas M. Waser University of California, Riverside
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Allan Timmermann
Allan Timmermann University of California, San Diego
Marlies Sazima
Marlies Sazima State University of Campinas
Mary V. Price
Mary V. Price University of Arizona
Simon G. Potts
Simon G. Potts University of Reading
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge
Víctor Parra-Tabla
Víctor Parra-Tabla Autonomous University of Yucatán
Lars Chittka
Lars Chittka Queen Mary University of London

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