How does climate change impact social bees and bee sociality?

Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 93(11), P. 1610 - 1621

Published: Aug. 5, 2024

Climatic factors are known to shape the expression of social behaviours. Likewise, variation in behaviour can dictate climate responses. Understanding interactions between and sociality is crucial for forecasting vulnerability resilience change across animal taxa. These particularly relevant taxa like bees that exhibit a broad diversity states. An emerging body literature aims quantify bee responses environmental with respect key functional traits, including sociality. Additionally, decades research on drivers evolution may prove fruitful predicting shifts costs benefits strategies under change. In this review, we explore these findings ask two interconnected questions: (a) how does mediate change, (b) might impact organisation bees? We highlight traits intersect confer (e.g. extended activity periods, diet breadth, behavioural thermoregulation) generate predictions about impacts distribution phenotypes bees. The evolutionary consequences will be complex heterogeneous, depending such as local plasticity traits. Many contexts see an increase frequency eusocial nesting warming temperatures accelerate development expand temporal window rearing worker brood. More broadly, climate-mediated abiotic biotic selective environments alter living different contexts, cascading at population, community ecosystem levels.

Language: Английский

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Climate explains global functional trait variation in bees

Functional Ecology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 1, 2025

Abstract Climate is a fundamental driver of macroecological patterns in functional trait variation. However, many the traits that have outsized effects on thermal performance are complex, multi‐dimensional, and challenging to quantify at scale. To overcome this challenge, we leveraged techniques deep learning computer vision hair coverage lightness bees, using images diverse widely distributed sample museum specimens. We demonstrate climate shapes variation these global scale, with bee increasing maximum environmental temperatures (thermal melanism hypothesis) decreasing annual precipitation (Gloger's Rule). found deserts hotspots for bees covered light‐coloured hairs, adaptations may mitigate heat stress represent convergent evolution other desert organisms. These results support major ecogeographical rules emphasize role shaping phenotypic diversity. Read free Plain Language Summary article Journal blog.

Language: Английский

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Climate explains global functional trait variation in bees

Authorea (Authorea), Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Aug. 14, 2024

Many studies have linked climate to functional trait variation at local scales, yet macroecological evidence for these trends is scarce.In particular, data limiting multi-dimensional traits that are challenging quantify scale, though many of outsize effects on thermal performance.We leveraged computer vision bee (hairiness and lightness) from images.We demonstrate shapes in a global with both increasing maximum environmental temperatures lightness decreasing precipitation.Deserts were hotspots bees covered light-colored hairs, adaptations may mitigate heat stress represent convergent evolution other desert organisms.These results support major ecogeographical rules emphasize the role shaping phenotypic diversity.

Language: Английский

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Looking for a signal: how well do specialist and generalist bees track preferred host plants over time?

Arthropod-Plant Interactions, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 18(5), P. 1053 - 1063

Published: July 29, 2024

Language: Английский

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