title: Climate change: bees and orchids lose touch.
abstract: Spring temperature increases could differentially affect flowering times and pollinator flight periods, leading to asynchrony and reduced pollination. A specialist orchid-bee study combining herbarium, museum and field data shows that bee flight dates are advancing faster than orchid flowering, which could lead to significant future uncoupling.
authors.affiliation: School of Biology, Sir Harold Mitchell Building, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9TH, Scotland, UK. Electronic address: pgw@st-and.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Pat
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Willmer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D035264:Flowers / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D029595:Orchidaceae / Q000502:physiology*; D054817:Pollination