Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents

Author:

Kerr Jeremy T.1,Pindar Alana1,Galpern Paul2,Packer Laurence3,Potts Simon G.4,Roberts Stuart M.4,Rasmont Pierre5,Schweiger Oliver6,Colla Sheila R.7,Richardson Leif L.8,Wagner David L.9,Gall Lawrence F.10,Sikes Derek S.11,Pantoja Alberto12

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1N6N5.

2. Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

3. Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

4. School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, The University of Reading, Reading, UK.

5. Department of Zoology, Université de Mons, Mons, Belgium.

6. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany.

7. Wildlife Preservation Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

8. Gund Institute, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.

9. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.

10. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Entomology Division, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

11. University of Alaska Museum, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA.

12. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Subarctic Agricultural Research Unit, Fairbanks, AK, USA.

Abstract

Bucking the trend Responses to climate change have been observed across many species. There is a general trend for species to shift their ranges poleward or up in elevation. Not all species, however, can make such shifts, and these species might experience more rapid declines. Kerr et al. looked at data on bumblebees across North America and Europe over the past 110 years. Bumblebees have not shifted northward and are experiencing shrinking distributions in the southern ends of their range. Such failures to shift may be because of their origins in a cooler climate, and suggest an elevated susceptibility to rapid climate change. Science , this issue p. 177

Funder

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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