Impacts of future climate on the distribution of 4 bumblebee species in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

ABSTRACT: Climate warming threatens dozens of bumblebee species across the world, including alpine areas. In plateaus with vast and continuous high-altitude areas, bumblebees' response to climate warming may be relatively optimistic. To study the species' responses to future climate in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, we quantified the suitable areas for 4 local bumblebee indicator species under current and future climate scenarios (Shared Socio-economic Pathway 126, 245, 370, and 585 in 2,100) using MaxEnt models. Suitable areas of indicator species were stacked to obtain the species richness layer. According to the acreage and connectivity of suitable areas and the acreage of the high richness area, a warmed climate will be more suitable for bumblebees' distribution compared to the current climate. The

SUBMITTER: Liang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10404063 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature