Dr. Joan M. Leong


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

 

Vernal pool in "full bloom" during the spring