Gill research group
insect ecology & evolution
Masters students - 2023-24
Rona Learmonth
Ecology, Evolution & Conservation MRes (Imperial)
Investigating how climatic variables shape community-level trait composition in bumblebees by mapping individuals in multidimensional trait space (ArcticBuzz project).
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Yao Yao
Ecosystems & Environmental Change MRes (Imperial)
Investigating how pesticide exposure can affect respiration and thermal performance in bumblebees through experimental manipulations (Multistressor project)
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Jacqui James
Ecology, Evolution & Conservation MSc (Imperial)
Investigating the different responses of bee and plant species to climatic variation and determining the contribution to the loss of ecosystem function (ArcticBuzz project)
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George Allen
Biodiversity & Biosystematics MRes (Imperial/NHM)
Determining how evolutionary relationships alter susceptibility to interannual changes in climate and how it can predict modularity in plant-pollinator networks (ArcticBuzz project)
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Moganavalli Kattan
Ecology, Evolution & Conservation MRes (Imperial)
Investigating how the species thermal index can predict species assemblages of Arctic bumblebees and host plants at different biological scales (ArcticBuzz project)
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Manon van Unen
Erasmus student hosted by CIRC from Leiden University
Determining how changes to bumblebee species assemblages in response to climate alter niche overlap and competition (ArcticBuzz project)
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Silas van Brakel
Erasmus student hosted by CIRC from Aeres (NL)
Surveying bee and plant distributions to understand levels of plasticity to environmental variables (ArcticBuzz project)
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Lena Jung
Erasmus student hosted by CIRC from Freie Universitat Berlin (Zedat)
Surveying bee and plant distributions to understand levels of plasticity to environmental variables (ArcticBuzz project)
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Elliot Parnell
Computational Methods in Ecology & Evolution MSc (Imperial)
Identifying spectral reflectance signatures of pollination in Strawberry plants (Sensing pollination project)
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Shengge Tong
Computational Methods in Ecology & Evolution MSc (Imperial)
Identifying hyperspectral reflectance signatures of pollination in Oilseed Rape plants (Sensing pollination project)
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