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/).
 

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