ArticleMicrobial ecology2022
Elevated Temperature May Affect Nectar Microbes, Nectar Sugars, and Bumble Bee Foraging Preference.
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- Core symbionts, age at inoculation and diet affect colonization of the bumblebee gut by a common bacterial pathogen.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- High abundance of lactobacilli in the gut microbiome of honey bees during winter.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Tiny but mighty? Overview of a decade of research on nectar bacteria.The New phytologist · 2025Review
- Exploring climate-related gut microbiome variation in bumble bees: An experimental and observational perspective.Ecology · 2025Article
- Global change aggravates drought, with consequences for plant reproduction.Annals of botany · 2025Review
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- Seasonal Assembly of Nectar Microbial Communities Across Angiosperm Plant Species: Assessing Contributions of Climate and Plant Traits.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Bumble bee microbiota shows temporal succession and increase of lactic acid bacteria when exposed to outdoor environments.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024Article
- Sugar Concentration, Nitrogen Availability, and Phylogenetic Factors Determine the Ability of Acinetobacter spp. and Rosenbergiella spp. to Grow in Floral Nectar.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Hummingbird foraging preferences during extreme heat events.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
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- Warming of experimental plant-pollinator communities advances phenologies, alters traits, reduces interactions and depresses reproduction.Ecology letters · 2023Article
- Complex floral traits shape pollinator attraction to ornamental plants.Annals of botany · 2022Article
- Floral nectar microbial communities exhibit seasonal shifts associated with extreme heat: Potential implications for climate change and plant-pollinator interactions.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Floral nectar, an important resource for pollinators, is inhabited by microbes such as yeasts and bacteria, which have been shown to influence pollinator preference. Dynamic and complex plant-pollinator-microbe interactions are likely to be affected by a rapidly changing climate, as each player has their own optimal growth temperatures and phenological responses to environmental triggers, such as temperature. To understand how warming due to climate change is influencing nectar microbial communities, we incubated a natural nectar microbial community at different temperatures and assessed the subsequent nectar chemistry and preference of the common eastern bumble bee, Bombus impatiens. The microbial community in floral nectar is often species-poor, and the cultured Brassica rapa nectar community was dominated by the bacterium Fructobacillus. Temperature increased the abundance of bacteria in the warmer treatment. Bumble bees preferred nectar inoculated with microbes, but only at the lower, ambient temperature. Warming therefore induced an increase in bacterial abundance which altered nectar sugars and led to significant differences in pollinator preference.
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