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Overview

Nicolas Vereecken is affiliated with Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Their research primarily falls under the broad domain of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Genetics, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The research topics explored by Vereecken include:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Bee Products Chemical Analysis
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Vereecken has contributed to a selection of recent papers, such as:

  • Managed honey bees as a radar for wild bee decline?, 2020, Apidologie
  • Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Opportunities to reduce pollination deficits and address production shortfalls in an important insect-pollinated crop, 2021, Ecological Applications
  • Characterization of honeys produced by sympatric species of Afrotropical stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Meliponini), 2021, Food Chemistry
  • National records of 3000 European bee and hoverfly species: A contribution to pollinator conservation, 2023, Insect Conservation and Diversity

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Vereecken include:

  • Leon Marshall
  • Denis Michez
  • Guy Smagghe
  • Nicolas Leclercq
  • Peter Vandamme

Their work has been published in several venues recurrently, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Insect Conservation and Diversity
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • The chemical ecology and evolution of bee-flower interactions: a review and perspectives'

    Stefan Dötterl;Stefan Dötterl;Stefan Dötterl;Nicolas Vereecken;Nicolas Vereecken;Nicolas Vereecken

  • Massively Introduced Managed Species and Their Consequences for Plant–Pollinator Interactions

    Benoît Geslin;Benoit Gauzens;Mathilde Baude;Isabelle Dajoz

  • Taxonomic and functional trait diversity of wild bees in different urban settings

    Étienne Normandin;Nicolas J. Vereecken;Christopher M. Buddle;Valérie Fournier

  • Cuticular Hydrocarbons as Sex Pheromone of the Bee Colletes cunicularius and the Key to its Mimicry by the Sexually Deceptive Orchid, Ophrys exaltata

    Jim Mant;Christoph Brändli;Nicolas J. Vereecken;Claudia M. Schulz

  • Hybrid floral scent novelty drives pollinator shift in sexually deceptive orchids.

    Nicolas J Vereecken;Nicolas J Vereecken;Salvatore Cozzolino;Florian P Schiestl

  • Pollinator size and its consequences: Robust estimates of body size in pollinating insects

    Liam L.K. Kendall;Liam L.K. Kendall;Romina Rader;Vesna Gagic;Daniel D.P. Cariveau

  • The evolution of imperfect floral mimicry.

    Nicolas J. Vereecken;Florian P. Schiestl

  • Pollinator convergence and the nature of species' boundaries in sympatric Sardinian Ophrys (Orchidaceae)

    Pierluigi P. Cortis;Nicolas Vereecken;Nicolas Vereecken;Florian F.P. Schiestl;M. R. Barone Lumaga

  • Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses.

    Kevin Maebe;Alex A.F. Hart;Leon Marshall;Peter A R P. Vandamme

  • Phylogeny and host-plant evolution in Melittidae s.l. (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)

    Denis Michez;Sébastien Patiny;Pierre Rasmont;Kim Timmermann

  • The interplay of climate and land use change affects the distribution of EU bumblebees

    Leon Marshall;Jacobus Christiaan Biesmeijer;Pierre Rasmont;Nicolas Vereecken

  • Pre-adaptations and the evolution of pollination by sexual deception: Cope's rule of specialization revisited

    Nicolas J. Vereecken;Carol A. Wilson;Susann Hötling;Stefan Schulz

  • Managed honey bees as a radar for wild bee decline

    T. J. Wood;D. Michez;R. J. Paxton;M. Drossart

  • Patterns of genetic and reproductive traits differentiation in Mainland vs. Corsican populations of bumblebees.

    Thomas Lecocq;Nicolas Vereecken;Denis Michez;Simon Dellicour

  • Pollination Syndromes in Mediterranean Orchids—Implications for Speciation, Taxonomy and Conservation

    Nicolas J. Vereecken;Nicolas J. Vereecken;Amots Dafni;Salvatore Cozzolino

  • On the roles of colour and scent in a specialized floral mimicry system.

    Nicolas J. Vereecken;Florian P. Schiestl

  • A synthesis of gynandromorphy among wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), with an annotated description of several new cases.

    Denis Michez;Pierre Rasmont;Michaël Terzo;Nicolas J. Vereecken

  • Cheaters and liars: Chemical mimicry at its finest

    Nicolas Vereecken;Nicolas Vereecken;Nicolas Vereecken;Jeremy N. McNeil;Jeremy N. McNeil;Jeremy N. McNeil

  • Population differentiation in female sex pheromone and male preferences in a solitary bee

    Nicolas J. Vereecken;Jim Mant;Florian P. Schiestl

  • Integrating past and present studies on Ophrys pollination - a comment on Bradshaw et al.

    Nicolas J. Vereecken;Nicolas J. Vereecken;Martin Streinzer;Martin Streinzer;Manfred Ayasse;Johannes Spaethe;Johannes Spaethe

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis Michez
Denis Michez University of Mons
Florian P. Schiestl
Florian P. Schiestl University of Zurich
Stuart P. M. Roberts
Stuart P. M. Roberts Université Libre de Bruxelles
Amots Dafni
Amots Dafni University of Haifa
Pierre Rasmont
Pierre Rasmont University of Mons
Salvatore Cozzolino
Salvatore Cozzolino University of Naples Federico II
Guy Smagghe
Guy Smagghe Ghent University
Peter Vandamme
Peter Vandamme Ghent University
Stefan Dötterl
Stefan Dötterl University of Salzburg
Eric Dufrêne
Eric Dufrêne University of Paris-Saclay

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