E&E Seminar: Dynamics of plant-pollinator interactions: climate change, existing variation and flexibility by Paul CaraDonna, Chicago Botanic Garden & Northwestern University
November 19, 2019
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Faculty Host: Emily Minor
Abstract: Plant-pollinator interactions are ubiquitous and play an important role in ecosystem functioning across the globe. Critically, plants, pollinators, and their interactions face numerous threats in our changing world, including those related to climate change. However, our understanding of the consequences of these threats to plant-pollinator interactions has been hampered because we lack knowledge of the basic ecology of many of these organisms, and how their ecology responds to changing abiotic and biotic conditions. In this seminar, we will first explore the ecological and physiological responses of an early season pollinator to climate warming. Next, we will examine the within-season temporal dynamics of plant-pollinator interaction networks as a means of understanding both their structure and flexibility in response to natural change. Finally, we will consider the potential drivers of any such interaction flexibility.
Date posted
Jul 11, 2019
Date updated
Nov 13, 2019