
There’s still a few hours left in which to register to attend the SCAPE 2020 pollinators and pollination conference. Follow the links on the website: https://scape-pollination.org/
The programme is more or less finalised and is shown below. We have an amazing range of topics being presented from both established and early career researchers, including two keynote lectures, plus posters. It’s going to be a very exciting weekend of science!
PROGRAMME
Talk types:
K = Keynote
ST = Standard (10 minutes talk + 5 for questions)
F = Flash talk (5 minutes, no questions)
Friday 6th November – all timings are GMT (London) time
Timing | Type | Name | Title | Ref |
09.00 –09.15 | Jeff Ollerton | Open conference and welcome | ||
09.15 –10.15 | K | Lynn Dicks | Understanding the risks to human well-being from pollinator decline | K.01 |
10.15 –10.30 | Comfort break | Time to top up your coffee | ||
Session 1 | Chair: Jeff Ollerton | Agriculture – 1 | ||
10.30 – 10.45 | ST | Ke Chen | Indirect and additive effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on insect pollination and crop yield of raspberry under different fertilizer levels | 1.01 |
10.45 – 11.00 | ST | Julia Osterman | Enhancing mason bee populations for sweet cherry pollination | 1.02 |
11.00 – 11.15 | ST | Idan Kahnonitch | Viral distributions in bee communities: associations to honeybee density and flower visitation frequency | 1.03 |
11.15 – 11.30 | ST | Anna Birgitte Milford | Who takes responsibility for the bees? | 1.04 |
11.30 – 11.45 | ST | Emma Gardner | Boundary features increase and stabilise bee populations and the pollination of mass-flowering crops in rotational systems | 1.05 |
11.45 – 12.00 | ST | Stephanie Maher | Evaluating the quantity and quality of resources for pollinators on Irish farms | 1.06 |
12.00 –12.05 | F | Thomas Timberlake | Pollinators and human nutrition in rural Nepal: experiences of remote data collection during a global pandemic | 1.07 |
12.05 –12.15 | Comfort break | |||
Session 2 | Chair: Jane Stout | Agriculture – 2 | ||
12.15 – 12.30 | ST | Michael Image | The impact of agri-environment schemes on crop pollination services at national scale | 2.01 |
12.30 – 12.45 | ST | Nicola Tommasi | Plant – pollinator interactions in sub-Saharan agroecosystems | 2.02 |
12.45 – 13.00 | ST | Tal Shapira | The combined effects of resource-landscape and herbivory on pollination services in agro-ecosystems | 2.03 |
13.00 – 13.15 | ST | Márcia Motta Maués | Despite the megadiversity of flower visitors, native bees are essential to açai palm (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) pollination at the Amazon estuary | 2.04 |
13.15 – 13.30 | ST | Sabrina Rondeau | Quantifying exposure of bumblebee queens to pesticide residues when hibernating in agricultural soils | 2.05 |
13.30 –13.35 | F | Maxime Eeraerts | Landscapes with high amounts of mass-flowering fruit crops reduce the reproduction of two solitary bees | 2.06 |
13.35 – 13.40 | F | Patricia Nunes-Silva | Crop domestication, flower characteristics and interaction with pollinators: the case of Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae) | 2.07 |
13.40 – 14.30 | Lunch break | |||
Session 3 | Chair: Mariano Devoto | Networks and communities | ||
14.30 – 14.45 | ST | Kit Prendergast | Plant-pollinator networks in Australian urban bushland remnants are not structurally equivalent to those in residential gardens | 3.01 |
14.45 – 14.50 | F | Kavya Mohan | Structure of plant-visitor networks in a seasonal southern Indian habitat | 3.02 |
14.50 – 14.55 | F | Opeyemi Adedoja | Asynchrony among insect pollinator groups and flowering plants with elevation | 3.03 |
14.55 – 15.10 | ST | Yael Mandelik | Rangeland sharing by cattle and bees: moderate grazing does not impair bee communities and resource availability | 3.04 |
15.10 – 15.25 | ST | Felipe Torres-Vanegas | Landscape change reduces pollen quality indirectly by shifting the functional composition of pollinator communities | 3.05 |
15.25 – 15.40 | ST | Isabela Vilella-Arnizaut | Quantifying plant-pollinator interactions in the Prairie Coteau | 3.06 |
15.40 – 15.55 | Comfort break | |||
Session 4 | Chair: Nina Sletvold | Conservation perspectives – 1 | ||
15.55 – 16.10 | ST | Lise Ropars | Seasonal dynamics of competition between honeybees and wild bees in a protected Mediterranean scrubland | 4.01 |
16.10 – 16.25 | ST | Philip Donkersley | A One-Health model for reversing honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) decline | 4.02 |
16.25 – 16.40 | ST | Nicholas Tew | Nectar supply in gardens: spatial and temporal variation | 4.03 |
16.40 – 16.55 | ST | Peter Graystock | The effects of environmental toxicants on the health of bumble bees and their microbiomes | 4.04 |
16.55 – 17.10 | ST | Hauke Koch | Flagellum removal by a heather nectar metabolite inhibits infectivity of a bumblebee parasite | 4.05 |
17.10 – 17.25 | Comfort break | |||
Session 5 | Chair: Anders Nielsen | Conservation perspectives – 2 | ||
17.25 – 17.40 | ST | Miranda Bane | Pollinators on Guernsey and a Pesticide-free Plan | 5.01 |
17.40 – 17.55 | ST | Jamie Wildman | Reintroducing Carterocephalus palaemon to England: using the legacy of a locally extinct butterfly as a (morpho)metric of future success | 5.02 |
17.55 – 18.10 | ST | Sjirk Geerts | Invasive alien Proteaceae lure some, but not other nectar feeding bird pollinators away from native Proteaceae in South African fynbos | 5.03 |
18.10 – 18.25 | ST | Sissi Lozada Gobilard | Habitat quality and connectivity in kettle holes enhance bee diversity in agricultural landscapes | 5.04 |
18.25 –18.45 | Comfort break | |||
18.45 – 23.59 | Themed discussion rooms open |
Saturday 7th November – all timings are GMT (London) time
Timing | Type | Name | Title | Ref |
08.55 – 09.00 | Jeff Ollerton | Reminders and announcements | ||
Session 6 | Chair: Jeff Ollerton | Conservation perspectives – 3 | ||
09.00 – 09.15 | ST | Paolo Biella | The effects of landscape composition and climatic variables on pollinator abundances and foraging along a gradient of increasing urbanization | 6.01 |
09.15 – 09.30 | ST | James Rodger | Potential impacts of pollinator declines on plant seed production and population viability | 6.02 |
09.30 – 09.45 | ST | Emilie Ellis | Moth assemblages within urban domestic gardens respond positively to habitat complexity, but only at a scale that extends beyond the garden boundary | 6.03 |
09.45 – 10.00 | ST | Samuel Boff | Novel pesticide class impact foraging behaviour in wild bees | 6.04 |
10.00 – 10.15 | Comfort break | Time to top up your coffee | ||
Session 7 | Chair: Jon Agren | Conservation perspectives – 4 | ||
10.15 – 10.20 | F | Maisie Brett | The impacts of invasive Acacias on the pollination networks of South African Fynbos habitats | 7.01 |
10.20 – 10.25 | F | Joseph Millard | Global effects of land-use intensity on local pollinator biodiversity | 7.02 |
10.25 – 10.30 | F | Susanne Butschkau | How does land-use affect the mutualistic outcomes of bee-plant interactions? | 7.03 |
10.30 – 10.35 | F | Elżbieta Rożej-Pabijan | Impact of wet meadow translocation on species composition of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes) | 7.04 |
10.35 – 10.40 | F | Lorenzo Guzzetti | May urbanization affect the quality of pollinators diet? A case-study from Milan, Italy. | 7.05 |
10.40 – 10.45 | F | Emiliano Pioltelli | Functional traits variation in two bumblebee species along a gradient of landscape anthropization | 7.06 |
10.45 – 11.00 | Comfort break | |||
Session 8 | Chair: Marcos Mendez | Pollinator behaviour – 1 | ||
11.00 – 11.15 | ST | Hema Somanathan | Foraging on left-overs: comparative resource use in diurnal and nocturnal bees | 8.01 |
11.15 – 11.30 | ST | Sajesh Vijayan | To leave or to stay? Answers from migratory waggle dances in Apis dorsata | 8.02 |
11.30 – 11.45 | ST | Balamurali MGS | Decision making in the Asian honeybee Apis cerana is influenced by innate sensory biases and associative learning at different spatial scales | 8.03 |
11.45 – 12.00 | ST | Gemma Villagomez | Resource intake of stingless bee colonies in a tropical ecosystem in Ecuador | 8.04 |
12.00 – 12.15 | ST | Ola Olsson | Pollen analysis using deep learning – better, stronger, faster | 8.05 |
12.15 – 13.00 | Lunch break | |||
Session 9 | Chair: Magne Friberg | Pollinator behaviour – 2 | ||
13.00 – 13.15 | ST | Shuxuan Jing | ‘Interviewing’ pollinators in the red clover field: foraging behaviour | 9.01 |
13.15 – 13.30 | ST | Océane Bartholomée | How to eat in the shade? Bumblebees’ behavior in partially shaded flower strips | 9.02 |
13.30 – 13.45 | ST | Manuela Giovanetti | Megachile sculpturalis: insights on the nesting activity of an alien bee species | 9.03 |
13.45 – 14.00 | ST | Zahra Moradinour | The allometry of sensory system in the butterfly Pieris napi | 9.04 |
14.00 – 14.05 | F | Pierre Tichit | New insights into the visual ecology of bees | 9.05 |
14.05 – 14.10 | F | Fabian Ruedenauer | Does pollinator dependence correlate with the nutritional profile of pollen in plants? | 9.06 |
14.10 – 14.15 | F | Hannah Burger | Floral signals involved in host finding by nectar-foraging social wasps | 9.07 |
14.15 – 14.30 | Comfort break | |||
Session 10 | Chair: Amy Parachnowitsch | Floral scent | ||
14.30 – 14.45 | ST | Herbert Braunschmid | Does the rarity of a flower´s scent phenotype in a deceptive orchid explain its pollination success? | 10.01 |
14.45 – 15.00 | ST | Yedra García | Ecology and evolution of floral scent compartmentalization | 10.02 |
15.00 – 15.15 | ST | Manoj Kaushalya Rathnayake | Does floral scent changes with pollinator syndrome? | 10.03 |
15.15 – 15.20 | F | Hanna Thosteman | The chemical landscape of Arabis alpina | 10.04 |
15.20 – 15.25 | F | Laura S. Hildesheim | Patterns of floral scent composition in species providing resin pollinator rewards | 10.05 |
15.25 – 15.30 | F | Christine Rose-Smyth | Does Myrmecophila thomsoniana (Orchidaceae) use uncoupled mimicry to obtain pollination? | 10.06 |
15.30 – 15.45 | Comfort break | |||
Session 11 | Chair: Renate Wesselingh | Pollination ecology and floral evolution – 1 | ||
15.45 – 16.00 | ST | Rachel Spigler | Adaptive plasticity of floral display and its limits | 11.01 |
16.00 – 16.15 | ST | Wendy Semski | Individual flowering schedules and floral display size in monkeyflower: a common garden study | 11.02 |
16.15 – 16.30 | ST | Carlos Martel | Specialization for tachinid fly pollination and the evolutionary divergence between varieties of the orchid Neotinea ustulata | 11.03 |
16.30 – 16.45 | ST | Marcela Moré | Different points of view in a changing world: The tobacco tree flowers through the eyes of its pollinators in native and non-native ranges | 11.05 |
16.45 – 17.00 | Comfort break | |||
17.00 – 18.00 | Poster discussion rooms open | A chance to talk with the author of the posters | ||
18.00 – 23.59 | Themed discussion rooms open |
Sunday 8th November – all timings are GMT (London) time
Timing | Type | Name | Title | Ref |
08.55 – 09.00 | Jeff Ollerton | Reminders and announcements | ||
09.00 – 10.00 | K | Scott Armbruster | Pollination accuracy explains the evolution of floral movements | K.02 |
10.00 – 10.15 | Comfort break | Time to top up your coffee | ||
Session 12 | Chair: Jeff Ollerton | Pollination ecology and floral evolution – 2 | ||
10.15 – 10.30 | ST | Kazuharu Ohashi | Three options are better than two: complementary nature of different pollination modes in Salix caprea | 12.01 |
10.30 – 10.45 | ST | James Cook | Why size matters in fig-pollinator mutualisms | 12.02 |
10.45 – 11.00 | ST | Yuval Sapir | Within-population flower colour variation: beyond pollinator-mediated selection | 12.03 |
11.00 – 11.15 | ST | Henninge Torp Bie | Flower visitation of the Sticky catchfly (Viscaria vulgaris) on isles within isle. | 12.04 |
11.15 – 11.20 | ||||
11.20 – 11.30 | Comfort break | |||
Session 13 | Chair: Yuval Sapir | Pollination ecology and floral evolution – 3 | ||
11.30 – 11.45 | ST | Jonas Kuppler | Impacts of drought on floral traits, plant-pollinator interactions and plant reproductive success – a meta-analysis | 13.01 |
11.45 – 12.00 | ST | Carmen Villacañas de Castro | Cost/benefit ratio of a nursery pollination system in natural populations: a model application | 13.02 |
12.00 – 12.15 | ST | Anna E-Vojtkó | Floral and reproductive plant functional traits as an independent axis of plant ecological strategies | 13.03 |
12.15 – 12.30 | ST | Camille Cornet | Role of pollinators in prezygotic isolation between calcicolous and silicicolous ecotypes of Silene nutans | 13.04 |
12.30 – 12.45 | ST | Courtney Gorman | Phenological and pollinator-mediated isolation among selfing and outcrossing Arabidopsis lyrata populations | 13.05 |
12.45 – 13.45 | Lunch break | |||
Session 14 | Chair: Rocio Barrales | Pollination ecology and floral evolution – 4 | ||
13.45 – 14.00 | ST | Danae Laina | Geographic differences in pollinator availability in the habitats shape the degree of pollinator specialization in the deceptive Arum maculatum L. (Araceae) | 14.01 |
14.00 – 14.15 | ST | Eva Gfrerer | Is the inflorescence scent of Arum maculatum L. (Araceae) in populations north vs. south of the Alps locally adapted to a variable pollinator climate? | 14.02 |
14.15 – 14.30 | ST | Kelsey Byers | Pollinators and visitors to Gymnadenia orchids: historical and modern data reveal associations between insect proboscis and floral nectar spur length | 14.03 |
14.30 – 14.45 | ST | Nina Jirgal | Orientation matters: effect of floral symmetry and orientation on pollinator entry angle | 14.04 |
14.45 – 15.00 | ST | Alice Fairnie | Understanding the development, evolution and function of the bullseye pigmentation pattern in Hibiscus trionum | 14.05 |
15.00 – 15.15 | Comfort break | |||
Session 15 | Chair: Maria Clara Castellanos | Pollination ecology and floral evolution – 5 | ||
15.15 – 15.30 | ST | Jon Ågren | On the measurement and meaning of pollinator-mediated selection | 15.01 |
15.30 – 15.45 | ST | Katarzyna Roguz | Plants taking charge: Autonomous self-pollination as response to plants-pollinator mismatch in Fritillaria persica | 15.02 |
15.45 – 16.00 | ST | Mario Vallejo-Marin | Bees vs flies: Comparison of non-flight vibrations and implications for buzz pollination | 15.03 |
16.00 – 16.15 | ST | Agnes Dellinger | Linking flower morphology to pollen-release dynamics: buzz-pollination in Melastomataceae | 15.04 |
16.15 – 16.30 | ST | Lucy Nevard | Are bees and flowers tuned to each other? Variation in the natural frequency of buzz-pollinated flowers. | 15.05 |
16.30 – 16.35 | F | Gabriel Chagas Lanes | An investigation of pollen movement and release by poricidal anthers using mathematical billiards | 15.06 |
16.35 – 16.40 | F | Rebecca Hoefer | The magnitude of water stress and high soil nitrogen decreases plants reproductive success | 15.07 |
16.40 – 16.45 | F | Marta Barberis | May ecotonal plants attract less efficient pollinators to stay on the safe side? | 15.08 |
16.45 – 17.00 | Comfort break | |||
Session 16 | Chair: Jeff Ollerton | Pollination ecology and floral evolution – 6 | ||
17.00 – 17.15 | ST | Gabriela Doria | Petal cell shape and flower-pollinator interaction in Nicotiana | 16.01 |
17.15 – 17.30 | ST | Nathan Muchhala | The long stems characteristic of bat-pollinated flowers greatly reduce bat search times while foraging | 16.02 |
17.30 – 17.35 | F | Juan Isaac Moreira-Hernández | Differential tolerance to heterospecific pollen deposition in sympatric species of bat-pollinated Burmeistera (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae) | 16.03 |
17.35 – 17.40 | F | Juan José Domínguez-Delgado | Does autopolyploidy contribute to shape plant-pollinator interactions? | 16.04 |
17.40 – 17.45 | F | Caio Simões Ballarin | How many animal-pollinated plants are nectar-producing? | 16.05 |
17.45 – 17.50 | F | Ana Clara Ibañez | Concerted evolution between flower phenotype and pollinators in Salpichroa (Solanaceae) | 16.06 |
17.50 – 18.15 | Jeff Ollerton | Prize announcements, conference handover and close. | 16.07 |