Buzzing towards Resilience: Investigating the Spatial Alignment of the Desert Pallid Bee, <i>Centris pallida</i>, and Its Host Plants in Response to Climate Change.

ABSTRACT: Wild bees are vital for the pollination of native plants and crops, providing essential ecosystem services. Climate change is known to impact biodiversity and species distributions, but insects adapted to desert ecosystems may exhibit unique physiological, behavioral, and evolutionary responses. The desert pallid bee (C. pallida), a solitary bee native to the arid southwestern United States and northern Mexico, primarily forages on yellow palo verde (P. microphylla), blue palo verde (P. florida), and desert ironwood (O. tesota). This study used MaxEnt to estimate the current and projected geographical overlap of suitable habitats for C. pallida and its host plants. Here, we used MaxEnt to estimate the current and forecasted overlapping geographically suit

SUBMITTER: Cruz TMP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11508805 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature