ArticleEvolutionary applications2021
Urbanization is associated with shifts in bumblebee body size, with cascading effects on pollination.
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- Bumble bees exhibit body size clines across an urban gradient despite low genetic differentiation.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Urbanization is a global phenomenon with major effects on species, the structure of community functional traits and ecological interactions. Body size is a key species trait linked to metabolism, life-history and dispersal as well as a major determinant of ecological networks. Here, using a well-replicated urban-rural sampling design in Central Europe, we investigate the direction of change of body size in response to urbanization in three common bumblebee species,
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