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climate-mediated indirect effects — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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climate-mediated indirect effects

Scope: climate

Papers: 5 | Mentions: 5

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Knowledge graph centered on climate-mediated indirect effects with 71 nodes and 178 connections. Top connected: Marmota flaviventris, Hummingbird, Bombus, Ligusticum porteri, Delphinium.

Definition

Effects of climate variables on organism fitness that operate through changes in resource availability rather than direct physiological impacts

Related Terms (5)

indirect pathwaysresource-mediated effectstrait-mediated processesdirect effectsindirect effects

Publications (5)

Up high, hot and dry: Individual reproductive output in subalpine bees declines with increasing drought severity

2025Global Change Biologyframework

Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesframework

Transient LTRE analysis reveals the demographic and trait-mediated processes that buffer population growth

2018Ecology Letterstested

Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology

2017Ecology Letterscentral

A single climate driver has direct and indirect effects on insect population dynamics

2012Ecology Letterscentral

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structural equation modeling

model type3 shared papers

plant-pollinator mutualism

process2 shared papers

phenological mismatch

phenomenon2 shared papers

snow cover duration

measurement2 shared papers

climate change effects on species interactions

theory1 shared paper

drought severity

measurement1 shared paper

individual fitness

measurement1 shared paper

floral resources

measurement1 shared paper

environmental stochasticity

process1 shared paper

cavity-nesting bees

phenomenon1 shared paper

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Ligusticum porteri

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Osmia

Megachilidae3 papers

B. vosnesenskii

Bombus vosnesenskii