Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Island Bees: The Aegean Archipelago.

ABSTRACT: Pollinators' climate change impact assessments focus mainly on mainland regions. Thus, we are unaware how island species might fare in a rapidly changing world. This is even more pressing in the Mediterranean Basin, a global biodiversity hotspot. In Greece, a regional pollinator hotspot, climate change research is in its infancy and the insect Wallacean shortfall still remains unaddressed. In a species distribution modelling framework, we used the most comprehensive occurrence database for bees in Greece to locate the bee species richness hotspots in the Aegean, and investigated whether these might shift in the future due to climate change and assessed the Natura 2000 protected areas network effectiveness. Range contractions are anticipated for most taxa, becoming more prominent over time.

SUBMITTER: Kougioumoutzis K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9030098 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature