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Johanna Yourstone – new PhD student

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Hello all! My name is Johanna Yourstone and I am very excited to start my PhD position at the Biodiversity unit, with main supervisor Ola Olsson and co-supervisor Henrik Smith.

I have been studying biology at Lund University the last couple of years (with some breaks for adventures and art studies) and I did my bachelor thesis on the impact of a neonicotinoid on solitary bees. Since then I have been very fascinated by bees and pollination ecology, which together with birding, botany and other nerdy interests brings me out in nature whenever chance is.

In my project I will look at the effect of spatio-temporal flower resource variation (related to agriculture intensity and landscape complexity) on bumblebees. I will go in-depth investigating diet, colony growth, reproduction and morphology and also add a historical aspect by investigating bumblebee-specimen collected during the last century. I hope my research will bring new light to the reasons behind bumblebee declines and provide a foundation for more efficient conservation measures.

See you in the corridors!

januari 9, 2017

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