Climate warming changes synchrony of plants and pollinators.

ABSTRACT: Climate warming changes the phenology of many species. When interacting organisms respond differently, climate change may disrupt their interactions and affect the stability of ecosystems. Here, we used global biodiversity facility occurrence records to examine phenology trends in plants and their associated insect pollinators in Germany since the 1980s. We found strong phenological advances in plants but differences in the extent of shifts among pollinator groups. The temporal trends in plant and insect phenologies were generally associated with interannual temperature variation and thus probably driven by climate change. When examining the synchrony of species-level plant-pollinator interactions, their temporal trends differed among pollinator groups. Overall, plant-pollinator interactio

SUBMITTER: Freimuth J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8965422 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature