CLIMATE-CHANGE
; MUSEUM SPECIMENS
; BIOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
; BRITISH BUTTERFLIES
; PHENOLOGICAL CHANGE
; BEE POLLINATORS
; RANGE EXPANSION
; HONEY-BEES
; RESPONSES
; TEMPERATURE
WOS学科分类:
Biology
WOS研究方向:
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
英文摘要:
Over the past two decades, natural history collections (NHCs) have played an increasingly prominent role in global change research, but they have still greater potential, especially for the most diverse group of animals on Earth: insects. Here, we review the role of NHCs in advancing our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary responses of insects to recent global changes. Insect NHCs have helped document changes in insects' geographical distributions, phenology, phenotypic and genotypic traits over time periods up to a century. Recent work demonstrates the enormous potential of NHCs data for examining insect responses at multiple temporal, spatial and phylogenetic scales. Moving forward, insect NHCs offer unique opportunities to examine the morphological, chemical and genomic information in each specimen, thus advancing our understanding of the processes underlying species' ecological and evolutionary responses to rapid, widespread global changes.
This article is part of the theme issue 'Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the anthropocene'.
1.Univ Ottawa, Dept Biol, Ottawa, ON K1N 9B4, Canada 2.Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada 3.Univ Florida, Dept Nat Hist, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA 4.Univ Florida, Florida Museum Nat Hist, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA 5.Univ Sherbrooke, Dept Biol, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
Recommended Citation:
Kharouba, Heather M.,Lewthwaite, Jayme M. M.,Guralnick, Rob,et al. Using insect natural history collections to study global change impacts: challenges and opportunities[J]. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,2019-01-01,374(1763)