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Rachael Winfree
Assistant Professor
Department of Entomology
119 Blake Hall
93 Lipman Dr.
Rutgers,
The State University
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Winfree lab web site: http://winfreelab.rutgers.edu/
email: rwinfree at rutgers dot edu
Tel 848 932 8315
FAX 732 932 7229
Research
I am a pollination ecologist and conservation biologist whose research focuses on several areas: pollinators and land use change, pollination as an ecosystem service, the ecology of plant-pollinator relationships, and pollinator conservation and restoration. See the Winfree lab web site http://winfreelab.rutgers.edu/ for more information about my research and publications and other activities going on in the lab.
Selected Publications
Winfree, R., I. Bartomeus, and D. Cariveau. 2011. Native pollinators in anthropogenic habitats. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 42:1-22. pdf
Bartomeus, I, J Ascher, S Colla, D Wagner, B Danforth, S Kornbluh, and R Winfree. 2011. Climate-associated phenological advances in bee pollinators and bee-pollinated plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:20645-20649. pdf
Winfree, R, B Gross and C Kremen. 2011. Valuing pollination services to agriculture. Ecological Economics 71:80-88. pdf
Winfree, R., R. Aguilar, D. P. Vázquez, G. LeBuhn, and M. A. Aizen. 2009 A meta-analysis of bees’ responses to anthropogenic disturbance. Ecology 90(8): 2068-2076. pdf
Winfree, R. and C. Kremen. 2009. Are ecosystem services stabilized by differences among species? A test using crop pollination. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 276: 229-237 pdf
Winfree, R. 2008 Pollinator-dependent crops: an increasingly risky business. Current Biology. R968-R969 pdf
Winfree, R., N. M. Williams, J. Dushoff, and C. Kremen. 2007. Native bees provide insurance against ongoing honey bee losses. Ecology Letters 10: 1105-1113 pdf
Winfree, R., T. Griswold and C. Kremen. 2007. Effect of human disturbance on bee communities in a forested ecosystem. Conservation Biology 21: 213-223 pdf
Winfree, R., J. Dushoff, E. Crone, C. Schultz, R. Budny, N. Williams and C. Kremen. 2005. Testing simple indices of habitat proximity. The American Naturalist 165: 707-717 pdf
Teaching
16:370/215:502 Pollination Ecology (3) Prerequisite: General ecology; for undergraduates, permission of instructor is required. Empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of plant-pollinator interactions from ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Based on readings from the primary scientific literature.
16:370:525 Insect Ecology (3) Prerequisite: General ecology; for undergraduates, permission of instructor is also required. The relationship between insect populations and elements of the physical and biotic environment. Emphasis on principles governing population size, and spatial and temporal variation.
Education and Training
B.A. Dartmouth College
Ph.D. Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Council on Science and Technology, Princeton
University
Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. Environmental Science, Policy and Management,
University of California, Berkeley
Outreach Bulletins
Native Bee Benefits – How to restore native bees on your farm or garden pdf