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Reusing Plant-Pollinator Datasets – a free WorldFAIR webinar on 18th April
A message from Dr Debora Drucker, WorldFAIR Agricultural Biodiversity Case Study Lead: Registration is open to our contribution to the WorldFAIR webinar series – “Reusing Plant-Pollinator Datasets: a...
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A new review of ‘Birds & Flowers’ in the Journal of Pollination Ecology
The reviews of Birds & Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship are starting to appear in blogs, magazines and journals. The latest, by Diane Campbell, has just been published in the...
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Bumblebee Pollen Citizen Science Project – get involved!
Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) are calling for volunteers to contribute to their investigation of the springtime pollen diets of bumblebees in the UK countryside. Spring is a...
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New study just published: The effect of elevation, latitude, and plant...
During the 2020 lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, I coordinated an international network of pollination ecologists who used standardised methods to collect data in their gardens. I blogged...
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From Cannock to Kunming is (only) 8,757 km
It must be the best part of a decade since the last time I visited Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. When I was still teaching at the University of Northampton we took students there...
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Aggressive dominance of acacia floral resources by wild East African lowland...
Back in August 2022, Karin and I traveled to Kenya where I was teaching on a Tropical Biology Association field course at the Mpala Research Centre – see my posts from the time here and here. Students...
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Using photographic mark-recapture to estimate population size, movement, and...
The reintroduction of the Chequered Skipper butterfly to England is one of the outstanding conservation success stories of the last ten years. I’ve been proud to play a part – see these old posts...
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First footsteps in Kunming – China Diary 1
Just over a week ago I arrived in China to spend three months as a visiting professor at the Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I am being hosted by my colleague Dr...
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Seeds have power far beyond their size – China Diary 2
In the image above, the three glass tubes on the right contain different cultivated varieties of soybean (Glycine max), one of the world’s most important (and controversial) legume crops. The tube on...
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The mystery of what pollinates poinsettias – China Diary 3
Is it too early to talk about Christmas? Not if you’re interested in pollinators and pollination! The mid-winter festival has featured quite a number of times on my blog over the years, especially in...
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