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Diverse communication strategies in bees as a window into adaptations to an unpredictable world
Communication is a fundamental feature of animal societies and helps their members to solve the challenges they encounter, from exploiting food sources to fighting enemies or finding a new home. Eusocial bees inhabit a wide range of environments and they have evolved a multitude of communication sig...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10268221/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37279263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2219031120 |
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author | Alves, Denise A. George, Ebi A. Kaur, Rajbir Brockmann, Axel Hrncir, Michael Grüter, Christoph |
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description | Communication is a fundamental feature of animal societies and helps their members to solve the challenges they encounter, from exploiting food sources to fighting enemies or finding a new home. Eusocial bees inhabit a wide range of environments and they have evolved a multitude of communication signals that help them exploit resources in their environment efficiently. We highlight recent advances in our understanding of bee communication strategies and discuss how variation in social biology, such as colony size or nesting habits, and ecological conditions are important drivers of variation in communication strategies. Anthropogenic factors, such as habitat conversion, climate change, or the use of agrochemicals, are changing the world bees inhabit, and it is becoming clear that this affects communication both directly and indirectly, for example by affecting food source availability, social interactions among nestmates, and cognitive functions. Whether and how bees adapt their foraging and communication strategies to these changes represents a new frontier in bee behavioral and conservation research. |
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spelling | pubmed-102682212023-12-06 Diverse communication strategies in bees as a window into adaptations to an unpredictable world Alves, Denise A. George, Ebi A. Kaur, Rajbir Brockmann, Axel Hrncir, Michael Grüter, Christoph Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Perspective Communication is a fundamental feature of animal societies and helps their members to solve the challenges they encounter, from exploiting food sources to fighting enemies or finding a new home. Eusocial bees inhabit a wide range of environments and they have evolved a multitude of communication signals that help them exploit resources in their environment efficiently. We highlight recent advances in our understanding of bee communication strategies and discuss how variation in social biology, such as colony size or nesting habits, and ecological conditions are important drivers of variation in communication strategies. Anthropogenic factors, such as habitat conversion, climate change, or the use of agrochemicals, are changing the world bees inhabit, and it is becoming clear that this affects communication both directly and indirectly, for example by affecting food source availability, social interactions among nestmates, and cognitive functions. Whether and how bees adapt their foraging and communication strategies to these changes represents a new frontier in bee behavioral and conservation research. National Academy of Sciences 2023-06-06 2023-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10268221/ /pubmed/37279263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2219031120 Text en Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Perspective Alves, Denise A. George, Ebi A. Kaur, Rajbir Brockmann, Axel Hrncir, Michael Grüter, Christoph Diverse communication strategies in bees as a window into adaptations to an unpredictable world |
title | Diverse communication strategies in bees as a window into adaptations to an unpredictable world |
title_full | Diverse communication strategies in bees as a window into adaptations to an unpredictable world |
title_fullStr | Diverse communication strategies in bees as a window into adaptations to an unpredictable world |
title_full_unstemmed | Diverse communication strategies in bees as a window into adaptations to an unpredictable world |
title_short | Diverse communication strategies in bees as a window into adaptations to an unpredictable world |
title_sort | diverse communication strategies in bees as a window into adaptations to an unpredictable world |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10268221/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37279263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2219031120 |
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