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Linking bee body size to thermal and desiccation tolerance using photogrammetry and 3D modeling

My current research aims to assess how bees' thermal and desiccation tolerance are predicted by their surface area to volume ratio (SA:V, a measure of body size). I am using novel 3D photogrammetry and modeling approaches to measure SA:V in bees and determining the amount of error when compared to linear measurements of intertegular distance (ITD) and body length.

Influences of sampling effort on seasonal plant-pollinator interaction turnover and rewiring

I studied plant-pollinator interaction networks across time and space in montane landscapes in my undergraduate honors thesis research. I utilized an eight-year dataset of plant-pollinator interactions in a subalpine meadow to examine A) how sampling effort influences our inferences of interaction turnover, rewiring, and species turnover, and B) what patterns of seasonal interaction turnover occurred across the season over eight years. This work was published as a first-author paper in Oecologia (doi: 10.1007/s00442-025-05771-8).

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