Dr. Mauricio Fernández Otárola
Biodiversity and Tropical Ecology Research Center (CIBET), University of Costa Rica

How are pitaya plants pollinated and how does the identity of pollinators influence fruit quality and farmers' income? How specialized is bee-mediated pollination of orchids and how variable are these interactions over time? This is a lecture on the effort to disentangle the pollination system in these charismatic Neotropical systems.

Students and colleagues are all welcome!