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Bees and urban heat
Prior research in Raleigh showed that urban warming alters the bee community and favors heat-tolerant species. But urban warming could have an entirely different effect when applied to a cold climate than to steamy NC. With collaborators in Ohio and Georgia, we are examining effects of urban warming on bees in 10 US cities–some cold, some hot, some wet, some dry. Learn more.
Affluence and diversity
The concept of the “luxury effect” is important in urban ecology and environmental justice, but it remains a mechanistic black box, unable to guide the equitable redistribution of biodiversity in cities. To open up this black box, PhD student Kate Gorman is using methods of social science and ecology to test a mechanistic pathway from affluence to habitat to biodiversity, using bees as a study system.