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Section Symposium

Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

Contemporary Strategies for Studying Pollinator Conservation and Distribution in a Changing World

From individual behavior to community stability: Novel strategies for studying pollinator interactions in a changing world

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
11:30 AM - 11:44 AM Pacific
Location: Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballroom 252, OCC
Oral Presentation
Rapid environmental change alters the behavior of individuals within species, resulting in the
species-level patterns observed in ecological communities. To understand how ecological
communities respond to different stressors, it is essential to link individual behavior and trait
variability with broader patterns of species interactions and community dynamics. Our research
examines how variation in resource abundance and diversity, along with temperature
fluctuations, influence pollinator foraging behavior and, in turn, shapes the structure and stability
of plant–pollinator interaction networks. By combining greenhouse experimental manipulations
with field-based surveys, we investigated how individual dietary breath, foraging behavior,
temperature variability—including extreme events like heat waves—affect mutualistic
interactions. Our results suggest that resource quality has a stronger effect than resource
abundance on both interaction patterns and offspring production. Our work provides new
insights into the mechanisms driving plant–pollinator interactions and offers scalable tools for
studying pollinator behavior under current and future environmental conditions.