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Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Alfons-Goppel-Straße-Str. 11
80539 München

One of the most fascinating interactions in the natural world exists between flowering plants and insects, which mutually benefit from each other: while the plants provide nutrition, the insects provide pollinating services. In order to attract insects, many plants use their flowers as billboards of sensory stimuli, which are thought to have co-evolved with the pollinator’s abilities to detect and their preferences to select these flower features. Yet, the delicate interplay between insects and plants is endangered by man-made changes to the environment, including climate change, but also the introduction of neophytes and ornamental flowers into the insect’s natural habitats. Thus, understanding the natural interactions from both a plant’s and an insect’s point of view is all the more important to gage how flexible, or vulnerable, these interactions are. This workshop brings together researchers studying insectplant interactions from multiple different angles, to share research insights, methodologies, and identify common questions that are best answered in a multidisciplinary approach.

Wissenschaftliche Veranstaltung

Philipp Schlüter (University of Hohenheim); Alexander Dietz (University of Würzburg); Fabian Ruedenauer (Technical University of Munich); Paula Prucker (Technical University of Munich); Alexander Wirth (Naturgucker eG); Anupama Nayak Manel (University of Konstanz); Johannes Spaethe (University of Würzburg); Lochlan Walsh (University of Konstanz); Anna Stöckl (University of Konstanz)

Please register for this workshop until the 8.11.2024 via Email to anna.stoeckl@uni-konstanz.de. Attendance is free of charge. The number of slots is limited, and will be distributed based on the date of registration.

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