Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Seminar Series

Dr Lena Schmidt, hosted by Dr  Kristine Crous. Lena is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Rader Community Ecology lab at University of New England. She completed her PhD at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment under supervision of Professor Sally Power, Dr Amy-Marie Gilpin, Professor James Cook, Dr Paul Rymer and Dr Paul Gibson-Roy.

Lena’s research is focusing on floral traits and floral resource availability as drivers of plant-insect interactions within disturbed (e.g. burned) or highly transformed (e.g. agriculturally intensified) landscapes. She employs a variety of methods including large-scale manipulative field and glasshouse experiments exploring factors influencing pollinator choice of foraging plants, floral resources use by insects across different seasons and the impact of climate change on floral rewards.

To find out more about future seminars as part of this series, please view the attachment below.