Understanding differential vulnerabilities to environmental stressors among native North American bumblebee species

Principal Investigator: Sheila Colla. Funding: NSERC Discovery Grant. Term: 2017-2026. The savethebumbblebees lab is com prised of members from both the Department of Biology and the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. As a lab, the project team is interested in all aspects of native pollinator conservation. Research is interdisciplinary, including ecology, conservation biology, policy

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York researchers explore ways to improve citizen science

The rapidly growing field of citizen science, which gives volunteers an opportunity to collect or analyze data to contribute to research, has spurred countless projects around the world. Some programs involve testing hypotheses while others are grounded in simple data gathering. Projects can be developed by academics or designed at the grassroots level. A review

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This bumblebee is ready for its closeup, if you can find it

Researchers turn to New Brunswickers for help in search for endangered bee Steven Webb · CBC News · Posted: Jun 21, 2020 8:00 AM AT This is the last specimen of the rusty-patched bumblebee ever found in Canada, at Pinery Provincial Park in Ontario in 2009. (Sheila Colla/COSEWIC) Bumblebee researchers are asking for help from regular New Brunswickers in their

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