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62
Citations
31128
World Ranking
2013
National Ranking
730

Overview

Neal M. Williams is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant attention to subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Genetics, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Plant and animal studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Plant Reproductive Biology.

Williams has published research in several frequent venues, highlighting a sustained engagement with ecological and applied biological research. Prominent publication venues include:

  • Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Melittology

Their recent scholarly output features studies such as:

  • The effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield: a quantitative synthesis (2020, Ecology Letters)
  • Crop production in the USA is frequently limited by a lack of pollinators (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Past insecticide exposure reduces bee reproduction and population growth rate (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Pesticide and resource stressors additively impair wild bee reproduction (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)

Williams frequently collaborates with several researchers, indicating active involvement in multi-author scientific work. Frequent co-authors include Clara Stuligross, Maj Rundlöf, Charlie Nicholson, Jeremy Hemberger, and Kimiora L. Ward.

Best Publications

  • Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

    Lucas A Garibaldi;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Rachael Winfree;Marcelo A Aizen

  • Crop pollination from native bees at risk from agricultural intensification

    Claire Kremen;Neal M. Williams;Robbin W. Thorp

  • Generalization in pollination systems, and why it matters

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

  • Bee foraging ranges and their relationship to body size.

    Sarah S. Greenleaf;Neal M. Williams;Rachael Winfree;Claire Kremen

  • Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change.

    Claire Kremen;Neal M. Williams;Marcelo A. Aizen;Barbara Gemmill-Herren

  • A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems

    Christina M. Kennedy;Eric Lonsdorf;Maile C. Neel;Neal M. Williams

  • Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

    David Kleijn;Rachael Winfree;Ignasi Bartomeus;Luísa G. Carvalheiro;Luísa G. Carvalheiro

  • The area requirements of an ecosystem service: crop pollination by native bee communities in California

    Claire Kremen;Neal M. Williams;Robert L. Bugg;John P. Fay

  • Ecological and life-history traits predict bee species responses to environmental disturbances

    Neal M. Williams;Elizabeth E. Crone;T'ai H. Roulston;Robert L. Minckley

  • Extinction order and altered community structure rapidly disrupt ecosystem functioning

    Trond H. Larsen;Neal M. Williams;Claire Kremen

  • Species abundance and asymmetric interaction strength in ecological networks

    Diego P. Vázquez;Carlos J. Melián;Neal M. Williams;Nico Blüthgen

  • Native bees provide insurance against ongoing honey bee losses

    Rachael Winfree;Neal M. Williams;Jonathan Dushoff;Claire Kremen

  • Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real‐world ecosystem service

    Rachael Winfree;Jeremy W. Fox;Neal M. Williams;James R. Reilly

  • The effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield: a quantitative synthesis.

    Matthias Albrecht;David Kleijn;Neal M. Williams;Matthias Tschumi

  • Modeling the status, trends, and impacts of wild bee abundance in the United States

    Insu Koh;Eric V. Lonsdorf;Neal M. Williams;Claire Brittain

  • Wild bee pollinators provide the majority of crop visitation across land‐use gradients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, USA

    Rachael Winfree;Rachael Winfree;Neal M. Williams;Hannah Gaines;John S. Ascher

  • Synergistic effects of non-Apis bees and honey bees for pollination services

    Claire Brittain;Neal Williams;Claire Kremen;Alexandra Maria Klein

  • Modelling pollination services across agricultural landscapes

    Eric Lonsdorf;Claire Kremen;Taylor Ricketts;Rachael Winfree

  • Complex Responses Within A Desert Bee Guild (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) To Urban Habitat Fragmentation

    James H. Cane;Robert L. Minckley;Linda J. Kervin;T'ai H. Roulston

  • A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes.

    Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Christina M. Kennedy;Claire Kremen;Péter Batáry

  • Variation in Native Bee Faunas and its Implications for Detecting Community Changes

    Neal M. Williams;Robert L. Minckley;Fernando A. Silveira

Frequent Co-Authors

Claire Kremen
Claire Kremen University of British Columbia
Rachael Winfree
Rachael Winfree Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Rufus Isaacs
Rufus Isaacs Michigan State University
Maj Rundlöf
Maj Rundlöf Lund University
Riccardo Bommarco
Riccardo Bommarco Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Taylor H. Ricketts
Taylor H. Ricketts University of Vermont
Elizabeth E. Crone
Elizabeth E. Crone Tufts University
Simon G. Potts
Simon G. Potts University of Reading
Luísa G. Carvalheiro
Luísa G. Carvalheiro Universidade Federal de Goiás
Eric V. Lonsdorf
Eric V. Lonsdorf University of Minnesota

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