Plant and Invertebrate Ecology

Dr Juliet L. Osborne

Pollination Ecologist

Department of Plant and Invertebrate Ecology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom.

Telephone: +44 (1)582 763133 x 2738.
Fax: +44 (1)582 760981
E-mail: juliet.osborne@bbsrc.ac.uk

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I study the ecology of pollinator behaviour and pollen movement between plants. In recent years, most of my research has been on bumblebees and their role as pollinators. By answering fundamental questions about how pollinators like bees move around at the landscape scale we hope to be able to make and test predictions about how they move pollen around and the consequent bee-mediated plant gene flow. Our team has the overarching aims of 1) conserving and promoting bee populations and 2) protecting and promoting wild flower and crop pollination. We work primarily, but not exclusively, in arable landscapes examining pollination of model plant species such as Brassica napus (oilseed rape), Trifolium repens (white clover) and Borago officinalis (borage).

Bombus terrestris on oilseed rape with radar transponder