Seminar: Insect Pollinators and Climate Change: The Effects of Temperature on Insect Pollinator Sensing, Cognition and Behaviour
Datum:
Ort:
WSL Birmensdorf, Hörsaal
Organisiert von:
Biodiversity Center, WSL
Vortrag:
Emily Baird, Stockholm University
Moderation:
Nicola Van Koppenhagen, WSL
Sprache(n):
English
Veranstaltungstyp:
Vorträge und Kolloquien
Zielpublikum:
Anyone interested in the topics
Abstract ¶
The role played by climate change in the drastic decline of insect pollinators has to date been studied primarily by assessing changes in their abundance or geographical range. While the ability for pollinators to provide ecosystem services also depends on their capacity to acquire, process and respond to environmental information, the effect of climate change on this capacity has been largely overlooked. In this talk, I will present work that my lab has been doing to understand how increasing temperatures affect sensing, cognition and behaviour in insect pollinators and the consequences that this may have for the ecosystem services they provide under climate change.
About the speaker ¶
Emily Baird is a professor at the Stockholm University. Her research program is focussed on understanding the link between the visual world of animals and how the brain uses visual information to guide behaviour in different environments. To do this, she takes a comparative approach that uses a combination of behavioural experiments and anatomical analyses using X-ray micro computed-tomography using bumblebees and dung beetles as primary model systems.
Lab: https://www.insectlabsu.com
How to join ¶
Our public seminars are hybrid, with the option to attend in-person or online.
Zoom webinar: link (ID: 650 3334 2319, Password: 348826)
Biodiversity Seminars ¶
The Biodiversity Seminar Series are organized by the WSL Biodiversity Center. Every two weeks, we aim to host a seminar speaker who presents research or outreach on topics relevant to the biodiversity community at WSL. The seminars are public and are usually broadcast online.
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