Journal Club

This Fri­day, August 27^th , 2021, from 12–1pm, we will dis­cuss the linked arti­cle at our next week­ly Jour­nal Club meet­ing. The arti­cle is titled “Hon­ey bee for­ag­ing dis­tance depends on month and for­age type”, and will be pre­sent­ed by STEM Research intern Kehinde Agbel­eye. Abstract: To inves­ti­gate the dis­tances at which hon­ey bee foragers …

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This Fri­day, August 20, 2021, from 12–1pm, we will dis­cuss the linked arti­cle at our next week­ly Jour­nal Club meet­ing. The arti­cle is titled “Apply­ing pollen DNA metabar­cod­ing to the study of plant–pollinator inter­ac­tions”, and will be pre­sent­ed by STEM Research intern Isabelle Sta­co. Abstract: Premise of the study:To study pol­li­na­tion net­works in a changing …

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This Fri­day, August 6, 2021, from 12–1pm, we will dis­cuss the linked arti­cle at our next week­ly Jour­nal Club meet­ing. The arti­cle is titled “Pro­ject­ed cli­mate change threat­ens pol­li­na­tors and crop pro­duc­tion in Brazil”, and will be pre­sent­ed by STEM Research intern Nathanaelle Brig­nol. Abstract: Ani­mal pol­li­na­tion can impact food secu­ri­ty since many crops depend on …

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This Fri­day, July 9, 2021, from 12–1pm, we will dis­cuss the linked arti­cle at our next week­ly Jour­nal Club meet­ing. The arti­cle is titled “Assess­ment of risk to hoary squash bees (Pepon­apis pru­inosa) and oth­er ground-nest­ing bees from sys­temic insec­ti­cides in agri­cul­tur­al soil”, and will be pre­sent­ed by STEM Research Emi­lie Oberg. Abstract: Using the hoary squash …

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This Fri­day, June 25, 2021, from 12–1 PM (EST/EDT), we will dis­cuss the linked arti­cle at our next week­ly Jour­nal Club meet­ing. The arti­cle is titled “The poten­tial of par­a­sitoid Hymenoptera as bioindi­ca­tors of arthro­pod diver­si­ty in agri­cul­tur­al grass­lands” and will be pre­sent­ed by STEM Research Intern Wes Walsh. Abstract: 1. As mea­sur­ing bio­di­ver­si­ty in its entirety …

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On Mon­day, June 21, 2021, from 10–11 AM (EST/EDT), we will dis­cuss the linked arti­cle at our next week­ly Jour­nal Club meet­ing. The arti­cle is titled “Nar­row habi­tat breadth and late-sum­mer emer­gence increas­es extinc­tion vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty in Cen­tral Euro­pean bees” and will be pre­sent­ed by STEM Research Intern Kehinde Agbel­eye. Abstract: Eval­u­at­ing intrin­sic and extrin­sic traits that …

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This Fri­day, April 9, 2021, from 12–1pm, we will dis­cuss the linked arti­cle at our next week­ly Jour­nal Club meet­ing. The arti­cle is titled “Wild bees as win­ners and losers: Rel­a­tive impacts of land­scape com­po­si­tion, qual­i­ty, and cli­mate”, and will be pre­sent­ed by STEM Research intern Matthew Healy. Abstract: Wild bees, like many oth­er taxa, are …

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We will dis­cuss the linked arti­cle at our next week­ly Jour­nal Club meet­ing, 4/2/21 at 12:00 PM EST. The arti­cle is titled “Effect of Win­ter­ing Dura­tion and Tem­per­a­ture on Sur­vival and Emer­gence Time in Males of the Orchard Pol­li­na­tor Osmia lig­nar­ia (Hymenoptera: Megachil­i­dae)”, and will be pre­sent­ed by STEM Researcher Alex Van­He­lene. Abstract: We mea­sured win­ter sur­vival, emergence …

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We will dis­cuss the linked arti­cle at our next week­ly Jour­nal Club meet­ing, 3/12/21 at 12:00 PM EST. The arti­cle is titled “Pol­li­na­tion suc­cess fol­low­ing loss of a fre­quent pol­li­na­tor: the role of com­pen­sato­ry vis­i­ta­tion by oth­er effec­tive pol­li­na­tors”. Abstract: Pol­li­na­tor abun­dance is declin­ing world­wide and may low­er the quan­ti­ty and qual­i­ty of pol­li­na­tion ser­vices to flow­er­ing plant …

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We will dis­cuss the linked arti­cle at our next week­ly Jour­nal Club meet­ing. The arti­cle is titled “Using ITS2 metabar­cod­ing and microscopy to analyse shifts in pollen diets of hon­ey bees and bum­ble bees along a mass-flow­er­ing crop gra­di­ent”. https://massasoit.zoom.us/j/96355527272 Meet­ing ID: 96355527272 Abstract: World­wide pol­li­na­tor declines lead to pol­li­na­tion deficits in crops and wild …

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