A Penn State-led team of researchers will use a newly awarded $682,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to examine how climate change may influence and interact with various stressors that affect the health of pollinators.
A Penn State-led team of researchers will use a newly awarded $682,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to examine how climate change may influence and interact with various stressors that affect the health of pollinators.
The funding is part of USDA-NIFA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative.
The project will employ a novel, integrative approach to understand how temperature variation, pesticides and pathogens interact to influence the fitness and survival of crop pollinators, according to team leader Margarita López-Uribe, Lorenzo L. Langstroth Early Career Professor and assistant professor of entomology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
López-Uribe pointed out that global warming is impacting biological processes of organisms at both individual and population levels, with profound effects on species interactions and ecological function.
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