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Principal Investigator

Kazuharu Ohashi

Assistant Professor 2004 – Present

Email: kohashi (at) biol.tsukuba.ac.jp

Cognitive abilities of pollinators and their effects on the evolution of floral phenotypes
Consequences of floral trait combinations for male/female fitness through changes in pollinator behavior
The evolution of floral phenotypes in multispecies interactions

M2

Kohei Terada

Evaluation of different pollinator groups from the perspective of pollen-species composition on their bodies

M1

Minori Okubo

Confounding effect of tube length and petal size on foraging rate of bumble bees

Kentaro Takagi

Saori Miyazaki

Marie Yamaguchi

Effects of spatial arrangement of plant species on floral constancy in bumble bees

How does color-scent phenotype affect competition and facilitation among flower species in bumble-bee attraction?

How does floral morphology affect the likelihood of heterospecific pollen deposition at pollinator visits?

B4

Maika Uehara

Exploring aspects of floral display that enhance visual detection by pollinators

B3

Sota Anazawa

Ayumu Tanaka

in preparation

Other Universities

Nina Jirgal (Univ. Manchester)

Effects of flower orientation and symmetry on the approach consistency of bumble bees

Alumnae & Alumni (but still our members!)

Yukine Kawamura

Relationship between floral color aspects and pollinator attraction in floral color-changing plants collaboration continuing

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