Rodney T. Richardson

The paper demonstrates that environmental DNA (eDNA) methods can sensitively detect bumble bee species, including rare ones, comparable to traditional netting surveys.

The paper develops scalable terrestrial eDNA methods to link landscape-scale forest habitat with insect richness using flower and leaf surface samples.

The paper uses pollen DNA analysis to show urban cavity-nesting bees primarily feed on weeds and nest more successfully in urban farms than pollinator plantings.

This study shows that honey bee foraging preferences influence exposure to different stressor syndromes, with diverse foraging linked to pathogens and limited foraging linked to xenobiotics.

MetaCurator curates reference sequences for genetic markers by trimming and dereplicating sequences, improving taxonomic characterization in metagenomic studies.

The paper updates Metaxa2 to support taxonomic classification using any genetic marker for metagenomic and metabarcoding data.