Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses
Bumblebees are ubiquitous, cold-adapted eusocial bees found worldwide from subarctic to tropical regions of the world. They are key pollinators in most temperate and boreal ecosystems, and both wild and managed populations are significant contributors to agricultural pollination services. Despite th...
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ftunivgent:oai:archive.ugent.be:8712399 2023-06-11T04:17:10+02:00 Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses Maebe, Kevin Hart, Alex Marshall, Leon Vandamme, Peter Vereecken, Nicolas J. Michez, Denis Smagghe, Guy 2021 application/pdf https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8712399 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8712399 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15751 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8712399/file/8713963 eng eng https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8712399 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8712399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15751 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8712399/file/8713963 No license (in copyright) info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY ISSN: 1354-1013 ISSN: 1365-2486 Biology and Life Sciences Ecology Global and Planetary Change General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry adaptation bumblebees climate change desiccation dispersal evolutionary potential heat shock proteins phenology phenotypic plasticity thermoregulation BOMBUS-TERRESTRIS DESICCATION RESISTANCE COMMUNITY COMPOSITION HYMENOPTERA APIDAE BEES HYMENOPTERA INSECT DIAPAUSE COLOR PATTERNS THERMAL LIMITS BERGMANNS RULE SIZE VARIATION journalArticle info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2021 ftunivgent https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15751 2023-05-10T22:48:56Z Bumblebees are ubiquitous, cold-adapted eusocial bees found worldwide from subarctic to tropical regions of the world. They are key pollinators in most temperate and boreal ecosystems, and both wild and managed populations are significant contributors to agricultural pollination services. Despite their broad ecological niche at the genus level, bumblebee species are threatened by climate change, particularly by rising average temperatures, intensifying seasonality and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. While some temperature extremes may be offset at the individual or colony level through temperature regulation, most bumblebees are expected to exhibit specific plastic responses, selection in various key traits, and/or range contractions under even the mildest climate change. In this review, we provide an in-depth and up-to-date review on the various ways by which bumblebees overcome the threats associated with current and future global change. We use examples relevant to the fields of bumblebee physiology, morphology, behaviour, phenology, and dispersal to illustrate and discuss the contours of this new theoretical framework. Furthermore, we speculate on the extent to which adaptive responses to climate change may be influenced by bumblebees' capacity to disperse and track suitable climate conditions. Closing the knowledge gap and improving our understanding of bumblebees' adaptability or avoidance behaviour to different climatic circumstances will be necessary to improve current species climate response models. These models are essential to make correct predictions of species vulnerability in the face of future climate change and human-induced environmental changes to unfold appropriate future conservation strategies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Subarctic Ghent University Academic Bibliography Global Change Biology 27 18 4223 4237 |
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Biology and Life Sciences Ecology Global and Planetary Change General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry adaptation bumblebees climate change desiccation dispersal evolutionary potential heat shock proteins phenology phenotypic plasticity thermoregulation BOMBUS-TERRESTRIS DESICCATION RESISTANCE COMMUNITY COMPOSITION HYMENOPTERA APIDAE BEES HYMENOPTERA INSECT DIAPAUSE COLOR PATTERNS THERMAL LIMITS BERGMANNS RULE SIZE VARIATION Maebe, Kevin Hart, Alex Marshall, Leon Vandamme, Peter Vereecken, Nicolas J. Michez, Denis Smagghe, Guy Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses |
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Biology and Life Sciences Ecology Global and Planetary Change General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry adaptation bumblebees climate change desiccation dispersal evolutionary potential heat shock proteins phenology phenotypic plasticity thermoregulation BOMBUS-TERRESTRIS DESICCATION RESISTANCE COMMUNITY COMPOSITION HYMENOPTERA APIDAE BEES HYMENOPTERA INSECT DIAPAUSE COLOR PATTERNS THERMAL LIMITS BERGMANNS RULE SIZE VARIATION |
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Bumblebees are ubiquitous, cold-adapted eusocial bees found worldwide from subarctic to tropical regions of the world. They are key pollinators in most temperate and boreal ecosystems, and both wild and managed populations are significant contributors to agricultural pollination services. Despite their broad ecological niche at the genus level, bumblebee species are threatened by climate change, particularly by rising average temperatures, intensifying seasonality and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. While some temperature extremes may be offset at the individual or colony level through temperature regulation, most bumblebees are expected to exhibit specific plastic responses, selection in various key traits, and/or range contractions under even the mildest climate change. In this review, we provide an in-depth and up-to-date review on the various ways by which bumblebees overcome the threats associated with current and future global change. We use examples relevant to the fields of bumblebee physiology, morphology, behaviour, phenology, and dispersal to illustrate and discuss the contours of this new theoretical framework. Furthermore, we speculate on the extent to which adaptive responses to climate change may be influenced by bumblebees' capacity to disperse and track suitable climate conditions. Closing the knowledge gap and improving our understanding of bumblebees' adaptability or avoidance behaviour to different climatic circumstances will be necessary to improve current species climate response models. These models are essential to make correct predictions of species vulnerability in the face of future climate change and human-induced environmental changes to unfold appropriate future conservation strategies. |
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Maebe, Kevin Hart, Alex Marshall, Leon Vandamme, Peter Vereecken, Nicolas J. Michez, Denis Smagghe, Guy |
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Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses |
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Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses |
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Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses |
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