Dr. Paul Caradonna, Professor at Northwestern University and Conservation Scientist at Chicago Botanic Garden, will present a talk about his work entitled, “Understanding the dynamics of plant-pollinator interactions in a changing world.” Read more about Dr. Caradonna’s work here.

Plant-pollinator interactions are ubiquitous and play an important role in ecosystem functioning across the globe. Plants, pollinators, and their interactions face numerous threats in our changing world. However, our understanding of the consequences of various threats to plant-pollinator interactions has been hampered because we lack knowledge of the basic ecology of many of these organisms as well as how their ecology responds to changing abiotic and biotic conditions. We will investigate these issues in this seminar.

The presentation will begin at 4:00 PM in Lapham N101, preceded by an informal Q&A from 3:45 – 4:00 PM.