Climate and land use change impacts on bumblebees

Bumblebee species are critical for pollination of crops and wild plant species but face critical threats from many sources. Some of these threats include climate change, habitat loss, and agricultural intensification. However, these threats may also interact to accelerate extinction risks among these species, eroding their contributions to vital ecosystem services and degrading the effectiveness of existing conservation strategies in both North America and Europe. By integrating massive datasets on bumblebee species distributions across both of these continents, and by applying a new methodological framework, we seek to provide the first spatially explicit predictions of the future of bumblebee biodiversity to consider the direct and interactive impacts of future climate change, habitat loss, and intensification. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Jeremy Kerr

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University College London

Discipline:

Life Sciences

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Education

University:

University of Ottawa

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