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Shaun McCoshum, Ph.D. student. Major advisor: Kristen Baum. Pollinator, Apoidea, bee, Danaus, monarch, LEAR, Canola, landscape matrix, ecology, landscape ecology, public outreach.
Botany, Miami University. Email: mccoshsm@gmail.com |
Specific Interests
After finishing my Master’s in Botany, I worked for 2 years in land conservation removing invasive plants on Catalina Island to preserve ecosystems vital to the endangered Catalina Island Fox, numerous endemic species, and rare pollinators as well as build public awareness and educational programs to involve people with the land; and in Nevada promoting ecosystems for the endangered Charleston Blue butterfly. I am now pursuing a PhD, in Zoology, evaluating pollinator responses to canola crops and I am working on an in-depth side project focusing on Monarch populations as they migrate through Oklahoma and the effects of host plants on parasite and parasitoid susceptibility. In addition to these projects I have a smaller side project evaluating which bee species are present around Salt Cedar populations and which bee species utilize Salt Cedar as a floral resource and I expect these data will benefit farmers, gardeners and land managers.
Publications
- McCoshum SM, Caterino MS, and Cline AR (2012) Introduced Sap Beetles (Coleoptera:Nitulidae) on Santa Catalina Island, California, U.S.A. The Coleopterists Bulletin (66) 4:1-4
- McCoshum, SM and JZ Kiss (2011) Green light affects blue-light-based phototropism in hypocotyls of Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 138: 409–417. 2011.
- McCoshum, SM (2008) Lab 7: Evolution of an invertebrate organ system. In Laboratory experiences for biological concepts ecology evolution genetics and diversity. BMZ 115 (Edited by R.J. Hickey and E.E. Schussler). Published by Miami University.