The Ecological Importance of Forests to Pollinators

Organizer(s)

• MU

  Michael D. Ulyshen

  Research Entomologist
  Southern Research Station
  USDA-Forest Service
  Athens, Georgia
• JR

  James Rivers

  Oregon State University
  Corvallis, Oregon
• SG

  Sara Galbraith

  University of Idaho
  Moscow, Idaho
• 

  Rachel Zitomer

  PhD Candidate
  Forest Ecosystems and Society
  Oregon State University
  Corvallis, Oregon

Appreciation for the importance of forests to pollinator diversity continues to grow. This symposium explores how bees are affected by forest management practices across North America and beyond. It also addresses how these insects are vertically distributed within both temperate and tropical forests in relation to resources in the canopy.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:35 PM PT

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Michael D. Ulyshen – USDA-Forest Service
• 1:35 PM – 1:50 PM PT

  Forest-associated bees of the northeastern USA
  

  Presenting Author: Rachael Winfree – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• 1:50 PM – 2:05 PM PT

  Native bee recovery 7-years post restoration of an Australian eucalypt woodland
  

  Presenting Author: Forbes Saurels – University of Melbourne

  Co-author: Tobias Smith – University of Melbourne

  Co-author: Margaret Mayfield – University of Melbourne
• 2:05 PM – 2:20 PM PT

  Four-dimensional use of forests: Investigating local bee-forest associations throughout the season within and above the canopy
  

  Presenting Author: Michael J. Cunningham-Minnick – University of Massachusetts

  Co-author: Joan Milam – University of Massachusetts

  Co-author: Patrick Roberts – University of Massachusetts

  Co-author: Brian Kane – University of Massachusetts

  Co-author: Dave King – USDA-Forest Service
• 2:20 PM – 2:35 PM PT

  Effects of burn season on bee-flower interaction diversity in the longleaf pine ecosystem
  

  Presenting Author: Michael D. Ulyshen – USDA-Forest Service

  Co-author: Kevin Robertson – USDA-Forest Service

  Co-author: Cinnamon Dixon – Tall Timbers Research Station

  Co-Author: Scott Horn – USDA-Forest Service
• 2:35 PM – 2:50 PM PT

  Pollinator dynamics within intensively managed early seral conifer forests: Bee community diversity is driven by time since harvest in Douglas-fire plantations
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel Zitomer – Oregon State University

  Co-author: Sara Galbraith – University of Idaho

  Co-author: Matthew Betts – Oregon State University

  Co-author: Andrew Moldenke – Oregon State University

  Co-author: Robert Progar – USDA-Forest Service

  Co-author: James Rivers – Oregon State University
• 2:50 PM – 3:00 PM PT

  Break
• 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM PT

  Patterns and drivers of bee diversity and community composition in an inland Pacific Northwest forest system
  

  Presenting Author: Sandra Debano – Oregon State University

  Co-author: Mary Rowland – USDA-Forest Service

  Co-author: Scott Mitchell – Oregon State University

  Co-author: Skyler Burrows – Utah State University

  Co-author: Emily Oja – University of Montana

  Co-author: Joshua Millspaugh – University of Montana
• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM PT

  Bee community response to forest management mediates bee health outcomes
  

  Presenting Author: Lauren Ponisio – University of California

  Co-Author: Hamutahl Cohen – University of Oregon

  Co-author: Sara Galbraith – University of Idaho

  Co-author: Jocelyn Zorn – University of Oregon

  Co-author: James Rivers – Oregon State University
• 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM PT

  Pollinator and floral communities vary with vegetation structure and time since management within regenerating timber harvests of the central Appalachian Mountains
  

  Presenting Author: Codey Mathis (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-author: Darin McNeil – University of North Carolina

  Co-author: Clint Otto – U.S. Geological Survey

  Co-author: Dave King – USDA-Forest Service

  Co-author: Jeff Larkin – Indiana University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Christina M. Grozinger – Pennsylvania State University