Dr Katherine Baldock

Summary

I am interested in community-level interactions between plants and their pollinators and the study of these relationships using interaction networks.

Current Research

I manage the research project "Urban Pollinators: their ecology and conservation". This large-scale project is studying insect pollinators in urban habitats around the UK. The work is funded as part of the UK Insect Pollinators Initiative and is a collaborative project led by the University of Bristol. For further information see www.urbanpollinators.org

Biography

2011-present: Postdoctoral research assistant "Urban Pollinators: their ecology and conservation", University of Bristol, UK. PIs: Jane Memmott, Bill Kunin, Graham Stone, Simon Potts, Koos Biesmeijer

2009-2010: Higher Scientific Officer, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.

2008-2009: Teaching fellow, University of Edinburgh, UK.

2007, 2008: Full-time tutor, University of Edinburgh, UK.

2003-2007: PhD 'Multispecies Pollination Interactions in a Kenyan Savannah Ecosystem'. University of Edinburgh, UK. Supervisor: Graham Stone.

2001-2002: MRes Biodiversity and Conservation, Distinction, University of Leeds, UK.

1997-2000: BSc Biology, University of Bristol, UK.

Keywords

• pollinators
• bees
• community
• networks
• urban
• savanna
• Kenya

Methodologies

• Ecological network analysis

Memberships

Organisations

School of Biological Sciences

Groups

• Ecological and Evolutionary Processes

Labs

• Community Ecology

Links

• Urban Pollinators website

Selected publications

• Baldock, KCR, Memmott, J, Ruiz-Guajardo, J-C, Roze, D & Stone, GN. ‘Daily temporal structure in African savanna flower visitation networks and consequences for network sampling’, Ecology, 92(3), (pp. 687-698), 2011

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Recent publications

• Joanna T. Staley, Tim H. Sparks, Philip J. Croxton, Baldock, KCR, Matthew S. Heard, Sarah Hulmes, Lucy Hulmes, Jodey Peyton, Sam R. Amy & Richard F. Pywell. ‘Long-term effects of hedgerow management policies on resource provision for wildlife’, Biological Conservation, 145, (pp. 24-29), 2012
• Pont, A. C. & Baldock, KCR. ‘Two new species of Muscidae (Diptera) from Kenya, associated with flowers of Acacia species (Fabaceae Mimosoideae) and Balanites species (Balanitaceae)’, Journal of East African Natural History, 96, (pp. 83-93), 2007

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system