Do bees even care if UV pigmentation is changing in flowers?
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Here’s some seemingly interesting news that came out this week: the UV pigmentation in flowers is changing as a result of climate change. Researchers looked at hundreds of floral specimens, dozens of species, from across North America, Europe and Australia that had been collected between 1914 and 2017. They found that, on average, the pigmentation in these flowers increased 2% per year in all locations. However, they also found that the magnitude and direction of change in UV floral pigmentation was strongly connected to the shape of a flower, ozone levels and temperature. So some flower species increased their pigmentation while others decreased.
Do bees even care if UV pigmentation is changing in flowers?
Do bees even care if UV pigmentation is…
Do bees even care if UV pigmentation is changing in flowers?
Here’s some seemingly interesting news that came out this week: the UV pigmentation in flowers is changing as a result of climate change. Researchers looked at hundreds of floral specimens, dozens of species, from across North America, Europe and Australia that had been collected between 1914 and 2017. They found that, on average, the pigmentation in these flowers increased 2% per year in all locations. However, they also found that the magnitude and direction of change in UV floral pigmentation was strongly connected to the shape of a flower, ozone levels and temperature. So some flower species increased their pigmentation while others decreased.