Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-017-1432-7
Title: Key environmental determinants of global and regional richness and endemism patterns for a wild bee subfamily
Authors: Bystriakova, N
Griswold, T
Ascher, J.S 
Kuhlmann, M
Keywords: angiosperm
bee
Cape Floristic Region
climate change
conservation planning
data set
ecological approach
endemism
environmental factor
environmental stress
invertebrate
latitudinal gradient
pollination
population decline
species diversity
species richness
wild population
Apoidea
Colletes
Colletidae
Colletinae
Invertebrata
Magnoliophyta
Tracheophyta
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Citation: Bystriakova, N, Griswold, T, Ascher, J.S, Kuhlmann, M (2018). Key environmental determinants of global and regional richness and endemism patterns for a wild bee subfamily. Biodiversity and Conservation 27 (2) : 287-309. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-017-1432-7
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: Reports of world-wide decline of pollinators, and of bees in particular, raise increasing concerns about maintenance of pollination interactions. While local factors of bee decline are relatively well known and potential mitigation strategies at the landscape scale have been outlined, the regional and continental-scale threats to bee diversity have only been marginally explored. Here we document large-scale spatial patterns for a representative bee subfamily, the determinants of its species richness, and assess major threats to these pollinators. Using a comprehensive global dataset of Colletinae (genera Colletes, also called “polyester” or “cellophane” bees for their underground nests lined with a polyester secretion, and Mourecotelles), a species-rich subfamily whose organismal and physiological ecology is representative of many bees, we measured species richness and endemism on global to continental scales. We explored the relationships between bee species richness and potential environmental stress factors grouped into three categories: contemporary climate, habitat heterogeneity, and anthropogenic pressure. Bees of the subfamily Colletinae demonstrate the reversed latitudinal gradient in species richness and endemism suggested for bees; the highest species richness of Colletinae was found between 30° and 50° latitude in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Centres of endemism largely overlapped with those of species richness. The importance of the Greater Cape Floristic Region, previously identified as a centre of richness and endemism of bees, was confirmed for Colletinae. On the global scale, present-day climate was a significant predictor of species richness as was flowering plant diversity represented by vascular plant species richness and centres of plant diversity. Our main conclusion is that climate change constitutes a potential threat to bee diversity, as does declining diversity of vascular plants. However, a significant overlap between centres of bee richness and plant diversity might increase chances for developing conservation strategies. © 2017, The Author(s).
Source Title: Biodiversity and Conservation
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/179054
ISSN: 09603115
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-017-1432-7
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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