Wild bees and global change

In our lab, we are carrying out several projects to study the response of Canary Island wild bees to several anthropogenic impacts such as climate change, land-use change, pathogen and competence with managed or exotic species that have arrived in the archipelago in recent years. To do so, we assessed the different impacts at different scales: at the community level we measured changes in the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of the communities, and at the species level we analysed specific responses such as changes in reproductive success, body size or nutritional lipid composition.