Douglas Sponsler

Ecologist | Entomologist | Data Scientist | Writer

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Research Expertise

urban landscape ecology
pollinator biology
data analytics
causal inference
Bayesian modeling
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Plant Science
Pollution
Environmental Chemistry
Waste Management and Disposal
Environmental Engineering
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Urban Studies
Ecology
Ecological Modeling
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Insect Science
Genetics

About

**During my career as an ecologist, I have established myself as an international authority on plant-pollinator interactions, with more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, more than 20 invited presentations, and research collaborations across 19 countries. My projects have taken me from the farmland of Ohio to the rooftops of Philadelphia to the endangered grasslands of Europe. Along the way, I have developed advanced skills in Bayesian statistics, causal inference, and scientific writing.**

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Publications

Application of ITS2 metabarcoding to determine the provenance of pollen collected by honey bees in an agroecosystem
Applications in Plant Sciences
2015
Pesticides and pollinators: A socioecological synthesis
Science of The Total Environment
2019
Honey bee success predicted by landscape composition in Ohio, USA
PeerJ
2015
County-level analysis reveals a rapidly shifting landscape of insecticide hazard to honey bees (Apis mellifera) on US farmland
Scientific Reports
2020
Mechanistic modeling of pesticide exposure: The missing keystone of honey bee toxicology
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
2016
Quantitative multi‐locus metabarcoding and waggle dance interpretation reveal honey bee spring foraging patterns in Midwest agroecosystems
Molecular Ecology
2019
Spatial and taxonomic patterns of honey bee foraging: A choice test between urban and agricultural landscapes
Journal of Urban Ecology
2017
Characterizing the floral resources of a North American metropolis using a honey bee foraging assay
Ecosphere
2020
Application of plant metabarcoding to identify diverse honeybee pollen forage along an urban–agricultural gradient
Molecular Ecology
2020
MetaCurator: A hidden Markov model‐based toolkit for extracting and curating sequences from taxonomically‐informative genetic markers
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
2019
Beekeeping in, of or for the city? A socioecological perspective on urban apiculture
People and Nature
2021
Contrasting patterns of richness, abundance, and turnover in mountain bumble bees and their floral hosts
Ecology
2022
Honey Bees and Neonicotinoid‐Treated Corn Seed: Contamination, Exposure, and Effects
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
2021
Floral preferences of mountain bumble bees are constrained by functional traits but flexible through elevation and season
Oikos
2021
A screening-level assessment of the pollinator-attractiveness of ornamental nursery stock using a honey bee foraging assay
Scientific Reports
2020
Grassy–herbaceous land moderates regional climate effects on honey bee colonies in the Northcentral US
Environmental Research Letters
2022
Poisoning a Society: A Superorganism Perspective on Honey Bee Toxicology
Bee World
2017
Pollinator competition and the structure of floral resources
Ecography
2023
Honey bee success predicted by landscape composition in Ohio, USA
Unknown Venue
2015
Targeted treatment of injured nestmates with antimicrobial compounds in an ant society
Nature Communications
2023
Next-generation colony weight monitoring: a review and prospectus
Apidologie
2024
High rates of nectar depletion in summer grasslands indicate competitive conditions for pollinators
Unknown Venue
2023
Distance functions of carabids in crop fields depend on functional traits, crop type and adjacent habitat: a synthesis
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2024
Review for "Distance functions of carabids in crop fields depend on functional traits, crop type and adjacent habitat: a synthesis"
Unknown Venue
2023

Education

The Ohio State University

PhD, Entomology / December, 2016

Columbus

Cedarville University

BS, Biology / December, 2010

Cedarville, Ohio, United States of America

Experience

University of Würzburg

Postdoctoral Researcher / March, 2020Present

The Pennsylvania State University

Postdoctoral Scholar / January, 2017March, 2020

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