Active around the year: Butterflies and moths adapt their life cycles to a warming world

JC Habel, T Schmitt, P Gros, W Ulrich - Global Change Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Living in a warming world requires adaptations to altered annual temperature regimes. In
Europe, spring is starting earlier, and the vegetation period is ending later in the year. These …

Global trends in climate suitability of bees: Ups and downs in a warming world

E Rahimi, C Jung - Insects, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This study examines the impact of global warming on crucial insect
pollinators, particularly bees. Through species distribution models, we evaluated how …

Global change and plant–pollinator communities in Mediterranean biomes

A Kantsa, CM De Moraes… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Occurring in five distinct global regions, Mediterranean‐type ecosystems (MTEs)
include both centres of agricultural production and hotspots of extratropical biodiversity …

EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks

JB Lanuza, TM Knight, N Montes‐Perez… - Global Ecology and …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation Pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining Earth's terrestrial biodiversity.
However, rapid human‐induced environmental changes are compromising the long‐term …

Pollinator peaking earlier than flowering is more detrimental to plant fecundity

W Wang, J Du, Z He, C Miao, J Wu, D Ma… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change has caused asynchronous phenological shifts between most plants and
their pollinators, resulting in an earlier or later appearance of peak flowering relative to peak …

Honeybees interfere with wild bees in apple pollination in China

J Li, A Olhnuud, T Tscharntke, M Wang… - Journal of Applied …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are increasingly used in commercial crop production, while wild
bees are also important pollinators. Few studies have investigated the relative importance of …

Reproductive ecology of Dianthus inoxianus: A rare wild carnation with a specialized pollination system

F Balao, S Talavera, J Herrera - Flora, 2024 - Elsevier
Plants with specialized pollination systems may be susceptible to reproductive failure when
pollinator service is unpredictable. This can influence the selection of floral traits that …

Island area, isolation and climate effects upon flower traits in a megadiverse archipelago

LA Trethowan, L Jennings, G Bramley… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Flower traits are critical to the mutualistic networks that underpin ecosystem function.
However, the broad‐scale drivers of flower traits are unclear. Using the megadiverse islands …

Bombus-plant interactions defined by bipartite network analysis in an underexplored Mediterranean island (Sicily)

C Polidori, BR Barletti, M Quaranta, A Ferrari… - Apidologie, 2025 - Springer
Abstract Bumblebees (Apidae: Bombus) are abundant pollinators in Mediterranean habitats;
however, interaction networks with plants have not yet been investigated in large areas of …

Understanding pesticide-induced tip** in plant-pollinator networks across geographical scales: Prioritizing richness and modularity over nestedness

A Chattopadhyay, A Samadder, S Mukhopadhyay… - Physical Review E, 2025 - APS
Mutually beneficial interactions between plants and pollinators are crucial for biodiversity,
ecosystem stability, and crop production. A threat to a mutualistic network is the occurrence …