by Agnes | Jun 10, 2025 | reflections and news, student research
In two recent publications (Dellinger et al. 2025: Does the abiotic environment influence the distribution of flower and fruit colors? https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.70044; Kopper et al. 2025: Mountain colonization precedes shifts away from bee pollination in...
by Agnes | Mar 31, 2025 | fieldwork
In the past month, Agnes had the great opportunity to travel to two of the world’s most outstanding islands: Madagascar and Borneo. Madagascar is the world’s oldest island, fourth largest in size, and a global biodiversity hotspot, with over 80% of its...
by Agnes | Feb 25, 2025 | fieldwork
The start of 2025 also signified the start of my big ERC Starting grant MountBuzz: relating context-dependent plant-pollinator interactions to macroevolution. Our aim in this project is to study the evolution of reproductive strategies in the plant family...
by Agnes | Nov 28, 2024 | fieldwork
We, that’s Viki Wieser and Johan Urrea, have just finished two months of intense field work in Colombia, exploring the tribe Pyxidantheae and the ecology of these plants. We’ve travelled to the departments Boyacá, Antioquía, Valle del Cauca and Magdalena, and...
by Agnes | Oct 1, 2024 | student research
by Benjamin Lazarus (PhD student) Over the past year, we have been gathering a bourgeoning collection of Melastome species housed in the Botanical Garden of Vienna … and we have been putting these new specimens to good use! Our new undergraduate student, Benjamin...
