Everglades National Park Pollinator Biodiversity

    In collaboration with Drs. Keith Waddington and Paul Neal, we researched the community ecology of pollinators and food plants in Everglades National Park, Florida, a globally important ecosystem.

More recently, I studied bee biodiversity in old-growth longleaf pine forests at the Wade Tract in Thomas County, Georgia, in secondary loblolly forests at Tall Timbers in Leon County, Florida, and Osceola National Forest and St. Marks Wildlife Refuge in Florida. This work was in collaboration with Tall Timbers Research Station and Drs. Steve Buchmann and Jim Donovan of the Bee Works, Inc. and funded by the Turner Foundation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and the VSU Graduate School. 

  For more information on pollinators, see:

J. B. Pascarella, K. D. Waddington, and P. R. Neal. 2001. Non-apoid flower-visiting fauna of Everglades National Park, Florida. Biodiversity and Conservation 10: 551-566.

John B. Pascarella, K. D. Waddington, and P. Neal. 2000. The bee fauna (Apoidea) of Everglades National Park, Florida and adjacent areas: Distribution, phenology, and biogeography,  Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 72(1):32-45.