The potential for phenological mismatch between a perennial herb and its ground-nesting bee pollinator.

ABSTRACT: Climate change may alter the timing of flowering and pollinator activity to differing degrees, resulting in phenological mismatches between mutualistic partners. Assessing the potential for such mismatches requires an understanding of the environmental factors that cue flowering and pollinator activity. Biological context is key to determining specific impacts of climate change, and therefore it is important to study mutualisms with pollinators of different nesting biologies. Our study focused on the phenology of two mutualists native to the coastal dunes of northwestern California: the silky beach pea (Lathyrus littoralis) and its main pollinator, the ground-nesting solitary silver bee (Habropoda miserabilis). We measured the current phenological overlap between the two spec

SUBMITTER: Olliff-Yang RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6054160 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature