Arctic plants adapting to climate change faster than scientists thought: study
“And then we can think all the way down to insects in the system … like bumblebees which need those flowering plants to get nectar,” she said. “And if you lose the flowering plants from these ecosystems, and particularly the ones that flower at different times across the summer, you can reduce that window when the bumblebees can forage, making life very difficult for an Arctic bumblebee.”