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 31, 2023 | fieldwork
Hello world! It’s Ben and Ash from South America… Agnes explained the thrust of our project best in her recent post “Rhexia fieldwork II: buzz-flower biomechanics” so make sure to check that out! But if two tabs is too many for you (red flag) or you are a...
by Agnes | Jul 10, 2023 | fieldwork
After a very successful and insightful field season in 2022, Ash, Ben and Agnes are back to the field to study buzz-pollination in the small Melastomataceae genus Rhexia! Rhexia represent the only genus in the family which has colonized more temperate regions...
by Agnes | Jul 16, 2022 | fieldwork, student research
At the beginning of July, I travelled from Colorado to Florida (what a move to make for a climber in the middle of summer ;-)) to work on the Melastomataceae genus Rhexia (meadow beauties)! This is a small genus of only about 11 species, and, importantly, the only...
