Status of Pollinators in North America (2007) / Chapter Skim
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A Committee Biographies
A Committee Biographies
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in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University in 1980 and joined the University of Illinois faculty shortly thereafter; she currently holds affiliate appointments in the Department of Plant Biology, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, and the Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and at the Center for Ecological Entomology at the Illinois Natural History Survey. Her primary research is on chemical mediation of interactions between plants and herbivorous insects, and her work ranges from the molecular to the community level.
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He spent 7 years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service's Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland where he focused on the biology of Varroa destructor and on the use of integrated pest management to control parasitic mites in honey bees.
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He is a member of the Steering Committee of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, a member of the Task Force on Declining Pollination Services, of the Species Survival Commission of the IUCN (The World Conservation Union) , and secretary of the Governing Board of the Ecological Society of America.
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He is chair of the Task Force on Declining Pollination of the IUCN (The World Conservation Union) , he is actively involved in pollination initiatives arising from the Convention on Biological Diversity, and he is a member of the Steering Committee for the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign.
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William Arends Professor of Integrative Biology. He is also the director of the University of Illinois Bee Research Facility, director of the Neuroscience Program, theme leader at the Institute for Genomic Biology, and a professor of entomology with affiliate appointments in the Departments of Cell & Developmental Biology and
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Dr. Swinton teaches agricultural production economics, agribusiness operations management, and ecological economics.
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Thien's work includes mosquito pollination in orchids (Habenaria in northern Wisconsin and Canada) , bee pollination of orchids in the bogs of northern Wisconsin, and beetle and fly pollination of magnolia in the southern United States and Mexico.
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