Many different pollinators often visit the same flower, as seen in this image where a buff-tailed bumble bee (Bombus terrestris), a red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) and a small sweat bee (Lasioglossum sp.) are sharing a plume thistle Cirsium rivulare flower. On pages 623-636, Willem Proesmans and colleagues discuss how sharing of flowers in this way is a potential conduit for insect pathogens. Pathogen dynamics are shaped by both the plant-pollinator network and species traits, and will be affected by global change.
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Photo credit: Hajnalka Szentgyörgyi
Author: PeterNeumann
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Neumann5 Education:
Umhabilitation in Zoology - University of Bern (2007); Habilitation in Zoology - MLU Halle-Wittenberg (2004); PhD (1998) in Molecular Ecology - MLU Halle-Wittenberg; MSc (1994) in Ecology - FU Berlin
Major academic positions:
Since 2013: Vinetum Professor of Bee Health, Director Institute of Bee Health - University of Bern; President COLOSS association; Extraordinary Professor - University of Pretoria;
2015-2018: Adjunct Professor - Chiang Mai University; Chair research network European honey bees surviving Varroa destructor by means of natural selection;
2014-2018: Vice Chair COST Action SUPER-B (SUstainable Pollination in Europe: joint Research on Bees and other pollinators);
2008-2013: Chair COST Action COLOSS;
2009-2012: Senior Research Scientist - Agroscope - Bern;
2009-2012: Head of Bee Pathology - Agroscope - Bern;
2006-2009: Research Scientist - Agroscope - Bern;
2005-2006: Chair reseach network Diagnosis and control of small hive beetles;
2004-2005: Professor per procurationem for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity of Animals - MLU Halle-Wittenberg;
2001-2005: Emmy Noether Fellow - MLU Halle-Wittenberg;
1999-2001: Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Rhodes University
Awards and fellowships: 5 personal awards (incl. taxonomic patronym: Nosema neumanni n. sp. (Microsporidia: Nosematidae) and 9 fellowships (incl. Academia Europea Fellow 2014); 14 awards of supervised students (best poster - best talk - distinguished thesis)
Output: >70 grants with >11.0 Mio €; >250 papers in international peer-reviewed journals
