How does climate change impact social bees and bee sociality?

Autor: Ostwald MM; Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA., da Silva CRB; School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia., Seltmann KC; Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of animal ecology [J Anim Ecol] 2024 Nov; Vol. 93 (11), pp. 1610-1621. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 05.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.14160
Abstrakt: Climatic factors are known to shape the expression of social behaviours. Likewise, variation in social behaviour can dictate climate responses. Understanding interactions between climate and sociality is crucial for forecasting vulnerability and resilience to climate change across animal taxa. These interactions are particularly relevant for taxa like bees that exhibit a broad diversity of social states. An emerging body of literature aims to quantify bee responses to environmental change with respect to variation in key functional traits, including sociality. Additionally, decades of research on environmental drivers of social evolution may prove fruitful for predicting shifts in the costs and benefits of social strategies under climate change. In this review, we explore these findings to ask two interconnected questions: (a) how does sociality mediate vulnerability to climate change, and (b) how might climate change impact social organisation in bees? We highlight traits that intersect with bee sociality that may confer resilience to climate change (e.g. extended activity periods, diet breadth, behavioural thermoregulation) and we generate predictions about the impacts of climate change on the expression and distribution of social phenotypes in bees. The social evolutionary consequences of climate change will be complex and heterogeneous, depending on such factors as local climate and plasticity of social traits. Many contexts will see an increase in the frequency of eusocial nesting as warming temperatures accelerate development and expand the temporal window for rearing a worker brood. More broadly, climate-mediated shifts in the abiotic and biotic selective environments will alter the costs and benefits of social living in different contexts, with cascading impacts at the population, community and ecosystem levels.
(© 2024 The Author(s). Journal of Animal Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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