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Principal Investigator


Kazuharu Ohashi

Assistant Professor  2004 – Present

Email: kohashi (at) biol.tsukuba.ac.jp 

  • Cognitive abilities of pollinators and their effects on the evolution of floral phenotypes
  • Consequences of floral trait combinations for male/female fitness through changes in pollinator behavior
  • The evolution of floral phenotypes in multispecies interactions


D1

Sara Okajima

 Phenotypic diversity of “hawkmoth flowers” as inferred from behavioral responses of hawkmoths to flower orientation

 


M2

Nozomi Takeuchi

Ikue Suzuki

Rou-Wei Wang

Cognitive causes of individual variation in priority of speed and accuracy in foraging bumble bees

Effects of color similarity among flowers with different phenology on pollinator-mediated facilitation via learning

Effects of flower orientation on pollination efficiency by pollinators (tentative)


M1

Serika Suwa

 Qualitative differences of diurnal and nocturnal pollinators as revealed by pollen diversity deposited on stigmas (tentative)


B4

Ayane Imamura

Amane Fujii

Directionality of floral color change and its consequences for behavioral responses of bumble bees (tentative)

Effects of landmark availability on spatial learning in bumble bees (tentative)


Alumnae & Alumni (but still our members!)

Yukine Kawamura

Kohei Terada

Maika Uehara

Nina Jirgal (Univ. Manchester)

Kaori Miyazaki

Marie Yamaguchi

Minori Okubo

Rei Onishi

Sota Anazawa

Ayumu Tanaka

Nagisa Wada

Takami Konishi

Kentaro Takagi

Relationship between floral color aspects and pollinator attraction in floral color-changing plants    collaboration continuing

Evaluation of different pollinator groups from the perspective of pollen-species composition on their bodies

Exploring aspects of floral display that enhance visual detection by pollinators

Effects of flower orientation and symmetry on the approach consistency of bumble bees

Effects of color-scent differences on competition and facilitation among flower species in bumble-bee attraction

How does floral morphology affect the likelihood of heterospecific pollen deposition at pollinator visits?

How do differences in petal size and color properties alter the guidance effect of bull's-eye marks?

Associations between floral trait syndromes and visitor communities

Effects of visual fusion and floral color aspects against different backgrounds on pollinator detection of inflorescences

Adaptive significance of compact inflorescences in floral generalization for diverse pollinators

Patterns of pollinator movement and anther/stigma contacts on heterospecific pollen transfer

Effects of flower orientation and corolla morphology on pollination efficiency in butterfly-pollinated flowers

Effects of interspecific differences in flower color and reward amount on pollinators' flower constancy and species mixing


If you want to go fast, go alone.

If you want to go far, go together.

 

African proverb