Delving deeper: Questioning the decline of long-tongued bumble bees, long-tubed flowers and their mutualisms with climate change

Miller-Struttmann et al. (2015) suggest that, in a North American alpine ecosystem, reduced flower abundance due to climate change has driven the evolution of shorter tongues in two bumble bee species. We accept the evidence that tongue length has decreased, but are unconvinced by the adaptive expla...

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Main Authors: Charlotte W de Keyzer, Sheila R Colla, Clement F Kent, Nicole E Rafferty, Leif L Richardson, James D Thomson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Enviroquest Ltd. 2016-07-01
Series:Journal of Pollination Ecology
Online Access:https://pollinationecology.org/index.php/jpe/article/view/396