BONUS SEPTEMBER SEMINAR: Urban Warming Shapes Insect Communities on Street Trees

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This month's seminar features Dr. Emily Meineke and her work exploring the interactions between human disturbance and insect communities.

Insects have eaten plants for around 400 million years. These interactions have given rise to most of terrestrial biodiversity. Over the past 12,000 years, humans have disrupted plant-herbivore relationships by building cities, domesticating crops, and changing the global climate. Dr. Meineke investigates these disruptions, focusing on species that are of cultural importance, such as street trees, crops, crop wild relatives, and plants that support rare insect species. Her work combines experiments, observations, citizen science, and biological collections to address key hypotheses in ecology. This presentation will focus on the effects of urbanization on insect herbivores and their associated predators.

A Bit About Dr. Meineke

Dr. Emily Meineke earned her doctoral degree at North Carolina State University in the Department of Entomology where she pioneered research characterizing the effects of urban heat islands on insect herbivores. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Herbaria, she studied how urbanization and climate change have affected plant-insect relationships worldwide over the past 100+ years. Emily is joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Urban Landscape Entomology in the Department of Entomology and Nematology at University of California, Davis in 2020. She likes to be outside with her dogs, run, and do crossfit (badly).

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