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CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE
Volume 46, Issue -, Pages 10-15Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2021.01.005
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Recent studies have shown that social insects may have an advantage over solitary insects in coping with climate change, but this advantage may only be short-term. Climate change is predicted to alter biotic interactions and ecosystem functions, as well as impact invasive social insects.
Climate change poses a major threat to global biodiversity, already causing sharp declines of populations and species. In some social insect species we already see advanced phenologies, changes in distribution ranges, and changes in abundance Rafferty (2017) and Diamond et al. (2017). Physiologically, social insects are no different from solitary insects, but they possess a number of characteristics that distinguish their response to climate change. Here, we examine these traits, which might enable them to cope better with climate change than solitary insects, but only in the short term. In addition, we discuss how climate change will alter biotic interactions and ecosystem functions, and how it will affect invasive social insects.
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