Determining habitat suitability for bumblebees in a mountain system: a baseline approach for testing the impact of climate change on the occurrence and abundance of species

Herrera, José Manuel Palma; Ploquin, Emilie F.; Rodríguez‐Pérez, Javier; Obeso, José Ramón

doi:10.1111/jbi.12236

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“…Several alternative factors such as herbicides or helminthicides impacting other organism groups could also be a factor in bumblebee decline (Lumaret, 1986;Madsen et al, 1990;Colin & Belzunces, 1992;Vandame & Belzunces, 1998;Hayes et al, 2002;Mussen et al, 2004;Simon-Delso et al, 2014). At least one other factor is regarded as strongly affecting the bumblebee fauna: the changing climate Ploquin et al, 2013;Herrera et al, 2014). However, throughout the present work, it should be kept in mind that it is very likely that none of the factors potentially explaining bumblebee decline is the unique or even the main trigger of current bumblebee regression.…”

Section: Contextmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Year after year, the local bumblebee fauna can change (including local species extinctions) due to variations in local climatic factors such as heat waves and droughts . However, this seems to drive the species not only along a random climatic hazard as proposed by Ranta & Vepsäläinen (1981) but also to a temporal and spatial gradient of changes (Ploquin et al, 2013;Herrera et al, 2014).…”

Section: Effects Of Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, bumblebee populations seem to be more sensitive to other threats when they reach their climatic limits (Williams & Osborne, 2009). Further, there is some indication that future climate change could have severe impacts on wild bee faunas (Kuhlmann et al, 2012) including bumblebees (Kirilenko & Hanley, 2007;Herrera et al, 2014).…”

Section: Toward a New Pollinator Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This random cycle of "sudden extermination -fast recovery" is considered as a key process of local species diversity, by maintaining all species under a competition level (Pekkarinen, 1984;Rasmont, 1989). Recent contributions noticed that bumblebees are indeed sensitive to extreme climatic events Ploquin et al, 2013;Herrera et al, 2014;Rasmont & Iserbyt, 2014). Year after year, the local bumblebee fauna can change (including local species extinctions) due to variations in local climatic factors such as heat waves and droughts .…”

Section: Effects Of Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

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Climatic Risk and Distribution Atlas of European Bumblebees

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Franzén²,

Lecocq³

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Section: Contextmentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Effects Of Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Toward a New Pollinator Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Effects Of Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

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Climatic Risk and Distribution Atlas of European Bumblebees

Rasmont¹,

Franzén²,

Lecocq³

et al. 2015

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“…Despite the visible effect of intense land use in the past four decades, this species still survives in agricultural patches in more southern regions (Martins and Melo 2009). In Europe, land cover together with climate change influenced both richness and local abundance in bumblebees (Herrera et al 2014). This leads us to question whether its disappearance in the northern limit of its distribution in southern Brazil was caused only by habitat loss or if climate change may have also played an important role in the species disappearance from its northernmost occurrence limit in Brazil.…”

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Species conservation under future climate change: the case of Bombus bellicosus, a potentially threatened South American bumblebee species

et al. 2014

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Bees ensure 35 % of global food production, but this service is endangered due to several threats. Declines in bumblebee populations (genus Bombus) have been reported worldwide. Bombus bellicosus is one of the rare cases of reported threatened bumblebees in South America. It was once widespread in southern Brazil's grasslands until the 1960s. During that time, that area underwent increasing land use which led to a decrease in bee abundance and richness, and to local disappearance of B. bellicosus. Climate change is also believed to cause declines in the abundance of B. bellicosus. Here we used species distribution models to assess potential effects of climate changes on the distribution of B. bellicosus in southern Brazil, considering both current and future climate scenarios. Our results show that the suitable climatic conditions for B. bellicosus will retreat southwards. A wax cover inside its nests is usually related to Bombus species inhabiting cooler climates. This cover enables the maintenance of higher temperatures inside the nest and may be deleterious for the species under future warmer climates. Continuously growing land use is the second major threat to this pollinator. The results presented here may eventually provide theoretical grounds and enable practical conservation actions for B. bellicosus protection in South America, especially given the potential adverse effects of climate changes for this species.

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Unraveling the habitat preferences of two closely related bumble bee species in Eastern Europe

Geue

Thomassen

2020

Ecology and Evolution

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Co‐occurrence of closely related species is often explained through resource partitioning, where key morphological or life‐history traits evolve under strong divergent selection. In bumble bees (genus Bombus), differences in tongue lengths, nest sites, and several life‐history traits are the principal factors in resource partitioning. However, the buff‐tailed and white‐tailed bumble bee (Bombus terrestris and B. lucorum respectively) are very similar in morphology and life history, but their ranges nevertheless partly overlap, raising the question how they are ecologically divergent. What little is known about the environmental factors determining their distributions stems from studies in Central and Western Europe, but even less information is available about their distributions in Eastern Europe, where different subspecies occur. Here, we aimed to disentangle the broad habitat requirements and associated distributions of these species in Romania and Bulgaria. First, we genetically identified sampled individuals from many sites across the study area. We then not only computed species distributions based on presence‐only data, but also expanded on these models using relative abundance data. We found that B. terrestris is a more generalist species than previously thought, but that B. lucorum is restricted to forested areas with colder and wetter climates, which in our study area are primarily found at higher elevations. Both vegetation parameters such as annual mean Leaf Area Index and canopy height, as well as climatic conditions, were important in explaining their distributions. Although our models based on presence‐only data suggest a large overlap in their respective distributions, results on their relative abundance suggest that the two species replace one another across an environmental gradient correlated to elevation. The inclusion of abundance enhances our understanding of the distribution of these species, supporting the emerging recognition of the importance of abundance data in species distribution modeling.

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Determining habitat suitability for bumblebees in a mountain system: a baseline approach for testing the impact of climate change on the occurrence and abundance of species

Cited by 29 publications

References 40 publications

Climatic Risk and Distribution Atlas of European Bumblebees

Climatic Risk and Distribution Atlas of European Bumblebees

Species conservation under future climate change: the case of Bombus bellicosus, a potentially threatened South American bumblebee species

Unraveling the habitat preferences of two closely related bumble bee species in Eastern Europe

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