[Pollinator] Xerces Society blog: Climate change and bumble bees

[Matthew Shepherd]

Hi everyone,



The paper about climate change and bumble bees published last week
published in the journal Science caused quite a stir. In the days since,
we've had time to read and digest the paper. Rich Hatfield, conservation
biologist with our Endangered Species Program, has written an article for
the Xerces Society blog, setting the new research in the context of wider
bumble bee conservation issues, and underscoring the importance of habitat
for building resilience within bumble bee populations.



The opening of Rich’s article is pasted in below. Please click on the link
to our blog to read the entire piece.



Matthew



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Climate Change Driving, Not the Only Passenger; Bumble Bee Conservation in
Context



On Thursday July 9, 2015, a paper about the effects of climate change on
bumble bee ranges was published in the journal *Science*
<http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6244/177.full?sid=58291314-70ff-4580-8334-51dd6d563cdc>
by Dr. Jeremy Kerr and several colleagues. This is an impressive body of
research and does much to further our understanding of landscape-scale
effects on insects. Understandably, this research has garnered a lot of
attention from national news outlets, as well as the scientific and
conservation communities. Here at the Xerces Society we have taken
particular note of its conclusions as they will help to inform our research
and restoration efforts in the years to come. This blog is intended to help
interpret the results of this study, provide some context for these
results, and examine how they may affect the conservation landscape.



While these results are impressive, and exemplify an important body of
work, we believe that they should be interpreted in the context of what we
know about bumble bee conservation as a whole — at least here in North
America.



Read the whole blog at http://www.xerces.org/blog/
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