Climate Change and Pollinators

Abstract

Abstract This chapter describes how the climate change is potentially the most
severe threat to pollinator biodiversity. Mounting evidence demonstrates that there
have already been biotic responses to the relatively small climate changes that have
occurred this century. Pollinators such as birds, bees, butterflies, moths, flies, wasps,
beetles bats and even mosquitoes are essential for food production because they
transfer pollen between seed plants-impacting 35% of the world’s crops. Along with
providing an essential service to human populations, pollinators also have a key role
in maintaining other ecosystem services including ensuring biodiversity and helping
Nature to adjust to external threats such as climate change. The “pollination
crisis” that is evident in declines of honeybees and native bees worldwide is due to
disruption of critical balance between the two mutually interacting organisms.
Anthropogenic climate change is widely expected to drive species extinct by hampering
individual survival and reproduction, by reducing the amount and accessibility
of suitable habitat, or by eliminating other organisms that are essential to the
species in question. The potential disruption of a ubiquitous mutualistic interaction
of terrestrial habitats, that between plants and their animal pollinators, via climate
change is at risk.

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