Solitary Bees Facing Climate Change
Solitary bees comprise over 15,000 species. They represent the vast majority of bees on earth (>77%), but they are less studied than the social species. Several threats from the modern world, like agricultural intensification, excessive use of pesticides, urbanization, different types of polluti...
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Solitary bees comprise over 15,000 species. They represent the vast majority of bees on earth (>77%), but they are less studied than the social species. Several threats from the modern world, like agricultural intensification, excessive use of pesticides, urbanization, different types of pollution, and invasive species, are leading the fragile populations of solitary bees to decline. Climate change has become a new stressor for bees, potentially amplifying these previously known threats. Warming temperatures are already causing shifts in some species’ geographical distribution and interrupting the temporal synchrony between the flowering period and the bee developmental cycle, leading to a “phenological mismatch”. As a result, bees starve, and plants fail to reproduce. Pollination of many native and cultivated plants is impaired.
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| spelling | doaj-art-9062c38498034cbab37fce775ae514f22025-08-20T03:36:58ZengUniversidade Estadual de Feira de SantanaSociobiology0361-65252447-80672025-05-0172210.13102/sociobiology.v72i2.11380Solitary Bees Facing Climate ChangeIsabel Alves-dos-Santos0Herbeson Ovidio de Jesus Martins1William de Oliveira Sabino2Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, BrazilPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto-SP, BrazilDepartamento de Ciências Ambientais, Instituto de Geografia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Cabo Frio, RJ, Brazil Solitary bees comprise over 15,000 species. They represent the vast majority of bees on earth (>77%), but they are less studied than the social species. Several threats from the modern world, like agricultural intensification, excessive use of pesticides, urbanization, different types of pollution, and invasive species, are leading the fragile populations of solitary bees to decline. Climate change has become a new stressor for bees, potentially amplifying these previously known threats. Warming temperatures are already causing shifts in some species’ geographical distribution and interrupting the temporal synchrony between the flowering period and the bee developmental cycle, leading to a “phenological mismatch”. As a result, bees starve, and plants fail to reproduce. Pollination of many native and cultivated plants is impaired. http://periodicos.uefs.br/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/11380Global warmingWild beesPhenological mismatch |
| spellingShingle | Isabel Alves-dos-Santos Herbeson Ovidio de Jesus Martins William de Oliveira Sabino Solitary Bees Facing Climate Change Sociobiology Global warming Wild bees Phenological mismatch |
| title | Solitary Bees Facing Climate Change |
| title_full | Solitary Bees Facing Climate Change |
| title_fullStr | Solitary Bees Facing Climate Change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Solitary Bees Facing Climate Change |
| title_short | Solitary Bees Facing Climate Change |
| title_sort | solitary bees facing climate change |
| topic | Global warming Wild bees Phenological mismatch |
| url | http://periodicos.uefs.br/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/11380 |
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