Does city life make bumblebees larger?
Monday, August 17, 2020 - 10:01
in Biology & Nature
Does urbanization drive bumblebee evolution? A new study by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig provides an initial indication of this. According to the study, bumblebees are larger in cities and, therefore, more productive than their rural counterparts. In Evolutionary Applications, the research team reports that differences in body size may be caused by the increasingly fragmented habitats in cities.