Research interests

  • Chemical ecology
  • Floral traits
  • Plant-pollinator interactions
  • Pollination
     

Scientific projects

Thesis title: Optimizing flower plantings to increase wild bee diversity and pollination efficiency in agricultural landscapes


My PhD project is divided in two parts: (a) getting a deeper understanding of the bee-plant-interactions on the BienABest wildflower plantings and (b) estimating the effect of bee communities on seed production of several wildflowers.


The project is funded by a scholarship of the German Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, https://www.dbu.de/).
 

Publications

Heuel KC, Haßlberger TA, Ayasse M, Burger H (2024). Floral Trait Preferences of Three Common wild Bee Species. Insects. 15(6):427. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15060427

Heuel KC, Ayasse M and Burger H (2024). Bee-diverse habitats positively affect seed set in wild plant species. Front. Ecol. Evol. 12:1343885. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2024.1343885

Contact

M.Sc. Kim Heuel  
Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics
Ulm University
Albert-Einstein-Allee 11
D-89081 Ulm, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)731 50 30614
Fax +49 (0)731 50 22683
Office: M25 4306/4307