by Agnes | Nov 12, 2020 | fieldwork
Together with my Master student Constantin Kopper, I travelled to Colombia and Costa Rica in February and March 2020 to collect flower material of various Melastomataceae species and perform new pollinator observations. We had hoped to be able to travel back to...
by Agnes | Mar 16, 2020 | fieldwork
From Colombia, we flew to Costa Rica to continue work on pollination syndromes and buzz-pollination in Melastomataceae. It is the aim of Constantin’s thesis to test whether floral traits identified as informative in delineating pollination syndromes in Merianieae are...
by Agnes | Feb 25, 2020 | fieldwork
2 Finally, a dream came true and I got to see some Colombian Melastomataceae! Together with my Master student Constantin Kopper, I did a first exploratory fieldtrip to the areas of Calí (southern Colombia) and Bogotá. We spent our days observing pollinators, searching...
