Consequences of warming up a hotspot: Species range shifts within a centre of bee diversity

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 885-897

  Kuhlmann, Michael ^a   Guo, Danni ^b   Veldtman, Ruan ^b,c   Donaldson, John ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bees; Climate sensitivity; Future climate scenario; Geographic range shift; Pollination; South Africa

Indexed keywords

BEE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HOST PLANT; HOT SPOT; KEYSTONE SPECIES; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VULNERABILITY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

APOIDEA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84864937961     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00877.x     Document Type: Article

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