Research interests:
Pollination ecology, biology and ecology of native bees, plant-insect interactions; conservation and restoration of wetland habitats (especially California vernal pool habitats); insect sampling methods, biodiversity surveys, population monitoring
Current projects:
A survey of the pollinator communities associated
with vernal pool plants at the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve
in western Riverside county
The species richness, species abundances, and diversity of bee
visitors to floral patches of Limnanthes douglasii rosea
Further investigation of pan trap sampling as a population
monitoring tool for andrenid bees
Pollinator visitation to translocated and natural populations
of the endangered vernal pool plant, Blennosperma bakeri
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