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Bumble bee nest density is lower in drought years.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Bumble bee communities exhibit delayed recovery following severe drought in rangeland.Environmental entomology · 2026Article
- Bumble bee nest density is lower in drought years.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
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Climate change is driving more frequent and intense droughts in many parts of the world. While we hold a broad understanding of how drought impacts plant populations, predicting drought's demographic effects on animal populations remains a challenge, particularly for invertebrates. Here, we use 7 years of bumble bee nest surveys spanning a period with two historic droughts to estimate impacts of drought on bumble bee nest abundance and apparent survival. Nest abundance significantly declined with drought (overall average of 19.3 versus 11.3 nests in non-drought versus drought years). Relative nest abundances of
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