The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $654,761 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the Chicago Horticultural Society (CHS) to conduct research on how wild bee populations respond to rapid environmental change. The project will leverage field-based experiments to investigate the ecological and evolutionary effects of altered temperature and biotic interactions on bee population dynamics. CHS will use an experimental demography approach to quantify the direct effects of temperature changes and the indirect impacts mediated by food resources and parasites across the bee's life cycle. The research will shed light on the relative importance of abiotic and biotic drivers of population viability under environmental change. The grant award period runs from September 2024 to February 2028.
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