Landscape Ecology of Insects
Last week, members of the Gratton lab attended a Waterfowl Production Area (WPA) public meeting. The WPA project is a multi-scale collaboration between US Fish and Wildlife Service Leopold Management District and UW Madison and the goal of the project is to understand how harvesting grassland vegetation for habitat management and bioenergy production influences waterfowl, …
We have put together a special page for pollinator specific resources! This page points farmers, other scientists, and anyone interested in pollinator protection to a collection of resources available both online, and in-text that can help YOU protect bees regardless of where you live! Check it out here!
Check out the nice article that the GLBRC Communications folks put together regarding a recent Gratton Lab paper about ecosystem service tradeoffs that come with working perennial energy crops into agricultural landscapes.
This week, lab member Hannah Gaines Day presented a talk about pollinators for the 109th Midwest Food Processors Association’s Annual Convention in Milwaukee. To view her presentation slides, please see below. For more information on pollinator conservation, please visit our Pollinator Resource Page.
Gratton lab member Rachel Mallinger has created an online WI Wild Bee Guide for native bee species commonly found in the spring and early summer. The guide allows users to identify bee species using picture matching or a dichotomous key. The guide’s purpose is two-fold: allow people to identify bees themselves and act as a citizen-science tool …