Flower is a part of plant ecology therefore there is no reason to exclude it from the topic. In this blog, I will talk about how climate change disrupts flower pollination.
Bee is the most important pollinator for plant, especially flower-like plants. With the increasing of temperature which leading to the overgrowth of competitors and fungus, the bee is now threatened to significantly reduce in total number. A new study shown that in North America, we are nearly 50% less likely to see a bumblebee outside than we were 50 years ago. This isn’t not a big issue for animal conservation but also for plant. According to the University of Leeds, the diversity of bees and of the flowers they pollinate, has declined significantly in Britain and the Netherlands over the last 25 years for around 37%.
This is definitely bad news for us. We must act quick! (fortunately, we did, our government did a pretty good job for bee conservation).
(fun fact: York University is the largest bee research campus in the world)
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 