How and why do individuals vary? How does individual variation scale to higher processes at the population and community levels?

 

I study intraspecific variation and its consequences for species function, mainly with bumble bees. I am broadly interested in understanding the mechanisms of how morphology shapes the ecology of species, ranging from scaling relationships among traits within individual organisms, to shifts in the distribution of traits within a population, to changes in the degree of trait overlap in a community.

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