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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Where have all
the flowers gone? UC Davis researcher wants to find out<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>By
KATHYKEATLEYGARVEY/Special to The Democrat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Created: 03/18/2011
02:30:38 AM PDT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_17643016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Pollination
ecologist and graduate student Katharina Ullmann of the Neal Williams' lab at UC
Davis, wants to know "Where have all the flowers gone?" (Neal
Williams/Courtesy) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Katharina
Ullmann is on a mission. "Where have all the flowers gone?" she asks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ullmann, a
pollination ecologist seeking a master's degree in entomology at UC Davis,
wants to enhance floral resources for honey bees and native bees in
agricultural landscapes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"Pollinators
play an important role in crop production and in maintaining wildflower
populations," said Ullmann, who studies with major professor and native
pollinator specialist Neal Williams. "However, habitat destruction and
agricultural intensification has modified the floral resources available in
agricultural landscapes. Ensuring that pollen and nectar resources are
available throughout the year is important for both honey bees and wild native
bees."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>As part of her
research, she and her colleagues from the Williams' lab are seasonally
monitoring floral visitors and floral resources at three experimental sites in
Yolo County and developing wildflower mixes that attract pollinators. She wants
to know what native flowers are most visited by honey bees, pests and natural
enemies; when they bloom, and what resources the flowers are providing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"An
estimated 30 percent of our global crop production is at least partially dependent
on animal pollinators," said Ullmann. "The European honey bee (also
called the Western honey bee) remains the most relied upon crop pollinator.
However, managed honey bees have declined by more than 50 percent since the
1950s."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"Supplemental
plantings with native pollen and nectar-rich plants in agricultural areas may
benefit honey bees by relieving floral resource scarcity and thus reducing bee
nutritional stress at critical times of the season," she said.
"However, floral resources may also attract pests."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ullmann said
that intensive agriculture "transforms complex, heterogeneous landscapes
with nature mixtures of natural habitat and diverse cropping systems into
simple, homogenous landscapes consisting of large monocultures and little
natural habitat."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Floral resources
used by bees do not persist throughout the flight season of most bees,
particularly the honey bee, she said. "As a result, there are times in the
year where few flowering plant species provide pollen and nectar. During these
times, bees experience nutritional stress which beekeepers combat by
supplementing colonies with artificial diets."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ullmann and her
colleagues are monitoring 18 native annual and perennial forb species. Forbs,
herbaceous flowering plants, include clover, lupine and California poppies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The pollination
ecologist recently received three scholarships to fund her research: the George
H. Vansell Scholarship for $4,435, the John S. Harbison Scholarship for $1000;
and the Teledyne Entomology Fellowship for $1,000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A 2002 graduate
of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Ullmann received her bachelor of
science degree in environmental biology, with honors, and a minor in French,
with honors. In 2001, she was involved in a six-month study program on the
ecology and conservation of Madagascar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ullmann
coordinated the California Pollinator Conservation Program for the Xerces
Society for Invertebrate Conservation from January 2007 to October 2008. Her
work involved research in restoring native bee habitat with conservation biologist
Claire Kremen at UC Berkeley; presenting native bee workshops throughout
northern California to growers, agricultural professionals and resource
management specialist; and teaching citizen scientists how to identify native
bees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>She also did
pollinator research at Princeton University under the guidance of pollination
ecologists/conservation biologists Rachael Winfree and Neal Williams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ullmann is a
2007 graduate of The Bee Course, a bee identification field course affiliated
with the American Museum of Natural History and held in the Southwestern
Research Station, Portal, Ariz., an area considered the richest bee fauna in
North America. One of the instructors is native pollinator specialist Robbin
Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Two of the three
scholarships Ullmann received memorialize influential agriculturists. Vansell,
who died in 1954, taught entomology and apiculture at UC Davis from 1922 to
1931 and later served with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. His research led
to a better understanding of the role of bees in crop pollination and to
improvements in the nation's supply of alfalfa and other legume seeds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>John Stewart
Harbison (1826-1912), was considered California's first modern beekeeper. He
brought 67 colonies of bees to San Francisco aboard the steamer Sonora on Nov.
30, 1857, and then transferred them to his home in the Sacramento area.
Harbison later settled in San Diego and by 1875 was recognized as the world's
largest beekeeper and producer of honey, according to former UC Davis apiarist
Lee Watkins in "John S. Harbison: California's First Modern
Beekeeper," published in the April 1969 edition of Agricultural History.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Teledyne
Scholarship, from the Teledyne corporation, also supports apiculture research
for UC Davis students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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