How does climate warming affect plant-pollinator interactions?

@article{Hegland2009HowDC,
  title={How does climate warming affect plant-pollinator interactions?},
  author={Stein Joar Hegland and Anders Nielsen and Amparo L{\'a}zaro and Anne-Line Bjerknes and {\O}rjan Totland},
  journal={Ecology letters},
  year={2009},
  volume={12 2},
  pages={
          184-95
        }
}
Climate warming affects the phenology, local abundance and large-scale distribution of plants and pollinators. Despite this, there is still limited knowledge of how elevated temperatures affect plant-pollinator mutualisms and how changed availability of mutualistic partners influences the persistence of interacting species. Here we review the evidence of climate warming effects on plants and pollinators and discuss how their interactions may be affected by increased temperatures. The onset of… 
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