Leon Marshall

Leon Marshall

I study how patterns of biodiversity shift in space and time with a  focus on pollinators.  I'm particularly interested in the influence of climate and land use changes. 

Keywords

Wild bees, pollination, environmental changes, biodiversity, modeling, conservation

 

Dr. Leon Marshall 

Postdoctoral Fellow
NL Biodiversity and Society

leon.marshall@naturalis.nl
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Research
interests

  • How land use and climate changes affect biodiversity across time and space and how these changes are influenced by traits, phylogeny and interactions

  • Statistical techniques and tools for analyzing and modeling species distribution and diversity

  • Global patterns of insular wild bee diversity and distribution

  • The influence of environmental changes on wild bees as crop pollinators

Collecting bees in Limburg
Bombus mendax perching in the Alps

Key
publications

Marshall, L., Perdijk F, Dendoncker N, (2020) Bumblebees moving up: shifts in elevation ranges in the Pyrenees over 115 years. Proc. R. Soc. B.28720202201. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2201

Marshall L, Beckers V, Vray S, et al. (2020). High thematic resolution land use change models refine biodiversity scenarios: A case study with Belgian bumblebees. Journal of Biogeographyhttps://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14000

Gérard M, Marshall L, Martinet, B. & Michez, D. (2020), Impact of landscape fragmentation and climate change on body size variation of bumblebees during the last century. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05310

Vereecken, N. J., Weekers, T., Leclercq, N., ... & Marshall, L. (2020). Insect biomass is not a consistent proxy for biodiversity metrics in wild bees. Ecological Indicators, 107132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107132

Marshall L, Biesmeijer JC, Rasmont P, et al. (2018) The interplay of climate and land use change affects the distribution of EU bumblebees. Global Change Biology 24:101–116. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13867

Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, WallisDeVries MF, Marshall L, et al. (2017) Butterflies show different functional and species diversity in relationship to vegetation structure and land use. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26:1126–1137. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12622 

Marshall, L., Carvalheiro, L. G., Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J, et al. (2015) Testing projected wild bee distributions in agricultural habitats: predictive power depends on species traits and habitat type. Ecology and Evolution 5(19): 4426–4436. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1579

Current
topics

A selection of the topics I am working on currently.

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The Netherlands is buzzing

Citizen science project in which measures taken for bees and pollinators are promoted. Cooperation with different partners and different targetgroups in the Netherlands.
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National Bee Strategy

As Naturalis Biodiversity Center we are an advising partner of the Dutch National Pollinator Initiative which brings together all of the bee supporting initiatives. For more information see: National Bee Strategy.
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