XV International Pollination Course

• Grant number: 25/19284-6
• Support Opportunities: Organization Grants - Organization of Scientific Meeting
• Start date: November 07, 2025
• End date: November 16, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Pedro Joaquim Bergamo
• Grantee: Pedro Joaquim Bergamo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Rio Claro
• Associated research grant: 21/10639-5 - Center for Research on Biodiversity Dynamics and Climate Change, AP.CEPID

Abstract

November 7th: Afternoon: Lecture - Floral resources and floral signals. November 8th: Morning: Lecture - Floral systems and Pollination systems. Afternoon: Lecture - Pollination: from populations to communities. November 9th:Morning: Lecture - Study design in Pollination Biology. Hypothesis driven research. Tips and advice for presentations.Afternoon: Arrival at the field station.November 10th: Morning: Lecture - Natural history of Campos Rupestres and Cerrado (André Rech and Paulo Eugênio Oliveira), exploration of the local flora and pollinator fauna.All day: Guided trails with instructors. Promotion of hypothesis-driven questions and the methods to answer them.Night: Lecture: Natacha Chacoff - Importance of pollinators for agriculture.November 11th: Early in the day - Lecture: Pedro Bergamo - Indirect interactions in plant-pollinator communities.Morning and afternoon - Round of dynamic practices: common methods in pollination biology.Night - Lecture: Patricia Morellato - Phenology, Pollination, and Climate Change in the Tropics.November 12th:Early in the day - Lecture: Kayna Agostini - The REBIPP Database and Information System: A Standardized Open-Access Platform for Plant-Pollinator Interaction Data in Brazil.All day: project definition, field trials.Night: Lecture - Nathan Muchhala - Actinomorphy to zygomorphy: Effects of floral symmetry on pollination and diversification.November 13th: All day: Data collection and analysisNight: Lecture - Juliana Hipólito: Participative monitoring of biodiversity.November 14th: All day: Data collection and analysis.November 15th :All day: presentation of the studiesNovember 16th:Morning - return to Diamantina. (AU)