Pollinator ResearchShannon Collins
2022 The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator Fellowship
What’s Bee-Low the Surface: Exploring Relationships between the Soil Microbiome and Ground-Nesting Bee Communities
Collins will assess the impacts of soil microbial community composition and physical soil properties on grassland ground-nesting bee communities, with particular attention to known microbia pathogens and mutualists. Collins’s research will include the impacts of grazing on food and nesting resources. Collins aims to provide insight on whether soilmicrobiome sequencing may be valuable for bee-habitat assessments.
The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator Fellowship
To provide funding to study the causes of pollinator decline, in particular bees, bats, butterflies, and moths, which could lead to potential solutions for their conservation and sustainability.
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