Using individual‐based trait frequency distributions to forecast plant‐pollinator network responses to environmental change

A Cantwell‐Jones, JM Tylianakis, K Larson… - Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Determining how and why organisms interact is fundamental to understanding ecosystem
responses to future environmental change. To assess the impact on plant‐pollinator …

Land-use-associated stressors interact to reduce bumblebee health at the individual and colony level

F Straub, M Birkenbach… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In agricultural landscapes, bees face a variety of stressors, including insecticides and poor-
quality food. Although both stressors individually have been shown to affect bumblebee …

[PDF][PDF] Leveraging natural history collections to understand the impacts of global change

NJ Sanders, N Cooper, AR Davis Rabosky… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - nate-sanders.org
If you have been lucky enough to visit a natural history museum and you are reading this, it
is highly likely that you found that visit inspirational. It is also highly likely that natural history …

Heat domes increase vulnerability of native stingless bees by simultaneously weakening key survival traits

JJG Quezada-Euán, RG Medina, A Soto-Correa… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Heatwave events increase in frequency and duration, yet there is a strong gap in assessing
their nonlethal effects on tropical insects, including beneficial social species. The stingless …

Bee species richness through time in an urbanizing landscape of the southeastern United States

SA Ruzi, E Youngsteadt, AH Cherveny… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Compared to non‐urban environments, cities host ecological communities with altered
taxonomic diversity and functional trait composition. However, we know little about how …

A climate suitability index for ecological habitats applied to terrestrial arthropods in the Mediterranean Region

JM Ciarlò, M Borg Inguanez, E Coppola… - …, 2024 - egusphere.copernicus.org
Climate change poses significant threats to global biodiversity, particularly impacting
arthropods due to their sensitivity to shifts in temperature and precipitation, as well as other …

Abraham Halsey: Forgotten pioneer of New York City botany and North American lichenology1

JC Lendemer - The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, 2024 - BioOne
Abraham Halsey published the first checklist of New York City lichens in 1823. It was the first
work focused on lichens in North America. Study of this baseline—among the oldest, most …

Detecting Signals of Recent Climate Change in North American, Cold-Adapted Butterfly Communities and Populations

VM Shirey - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Global climate change has been implicated as a major driver of ongoing insect biodiversity
declines, yet critical knowledge gaps remain regarding how it will impact communities and …

Improving pesticide risk assessment for social bees: a case study using the butenolide flupyradifurone

G Mercer - 2024 - qmro.qmul.ac.uk
Current lower-tier pesticide risk assessment for bees suffers from an overreliance on
individual-level, mortality-based studies performed in one species. This failure to assess sub …

Anthropological Climate Change: Affect on Hibernation of Pollinators in the Netherlands and its Cascading Effects

C Winter - 2023 - campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug …
This paper focuses on the hibernation of insect pollinators in the Netherlands and examines
the impact of climate change and increasing temperatures on their phenology. Through a …