Anthropogenic effects on the body size of two neotropical orchid bees.

ABSTRACT: To accommodate an ever-increasing human population, agriculture is rapidly intensifying at the expense of natural habitat, with negative and widely reported effects on biodiversity in general and on wild bee abundance and diversity in particular. Cities are similarly increasing in area, though the impact of urbanisation on wild bees is more equivocal and potentially positive in northern temperate regions. Yet agriculture and urbanisation both lead to the loss and alteration of natural habitat, its fragmentation, a potential reduction in floral availability, and warmer temperatures, factors thought to be drivers of wild bee decline. They have also been shown to be factors to which wild bee populations respond through morphological change. Body size is one such trait that, because of its rel

SUBMITTER: Garlin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9347145 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature