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James Crall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests encompass pollination, agroecology, behavioral ecology, global change, and planetary health. Crall investigates how organisms interact with abiotic environments and the implications of these interactions for broader ecological processes, particularly in the context of ecosystem services in agriculture. His work primarily focuses on bees and plant-pollinator interactions, with an applied interest in supporting pollinators within agroecosystems. He studies dynamics within complex biological systems, including collective behavior and ecological networks, and is particularly interested in developing low-cost, scalable techniques for experimental automation, data collection, and analysis. Current research questions include how social traits affect the robustness of bumblebees to environmental stressors, the interactions of stressors on organismal-scale processes like physiology and behavior, the impact of elevated CO2 on pollinator nutrition, and how spatial and temporal variations influence plant-pollinator interactions in agroecosystems.
Department: Department of Computer Sciences