Does climate influence phenological trends in social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespinae) in Poland?

Title:

Does climate influence phenological trends in social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespinae) in Poland?

Creator:

Tryjanowski, Piotr, Pawlikowski, Tadeusz, Pawlikowski, Krzysztof, Banaszak-Cibicka. Weronika, and Sparks, Tim H.

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:a17ff603-c6ad-4724-8b92-0e9ab3f5ce4f
uuid:a17ff603-c6ad-4724-8b92-0e9ab3f5ce4f

Subject:

Hymenoptera, Vespinae, Vespa crabro, Vespula germanica, German wasp, hornet, appearance date, climate change, long-term study, temperature, social insects, and Poland

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

Responses of insects to recent climate change have been well documented in a number of taxa, but not in wasps. This study examined shifts in phenology of the two most important wasp species (Vespa crabro and Vespula germanica) in Poland over the last three decades. Both species showed similar temporal trends, advancing their phenology after the early 1980s, but this pattern was detected only for workers not for the appearance of queens. The appearance times for V. germanica were negatively related to mean April temperature, appearing earlier in years with warmer springs, and positively related to precipitation in April. The studied species advanced aspects of their phenology, but linking this to temperature was not achieved for V. crabro suggesting that we have to pay more attention to the life history traits of the study organisms.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2010 Volume:107 | Number:2

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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