Thursday, October 3, 2019 3:45pm
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1712 Claflin Rd Manhattan KS 66506-5500
The decline of pollinators around the world is linked to a suite of interacting factors including the loss of habitat that provides food and nesting resources. Although conservation efforts aimed at increasing food and nesting resources for pollinators are important, managing for proper disturbance regimes can be equally important. For example, the potential expansion of native grasslands for bioenergy production may provide a more sustainable agricultural system that benefits grassland communities and other ecosystem services. Yet it is not clear how the associated disturbance of grassland harvesting would affect pollinators. In my talk I will describe the results of a large-scale experiment on how bees respond to grassland harvesting under a bioenergy production scenario. In addition to species diversity, the ways that species interact is also affected by disturbances to their environment. I will discuss some of my work on plant-pollinator interaction networks and how they can help us understand mechanisms of coexistence. I will end by talking about my research program at K-State including new research on pollinator response to grassland disturbance at the Konza Prairie and some new adventures into machine learning and using computer vision to identify and study pollinators. View Abstract (PDF).
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