Why Are Bees So Important For Our World | Ask an Expert - Dr Tom Cherico Wanger

Today is #WorldBeeDay and to commemorate we spoke to Dr Tom Wanger about the importance of bees for our ecosystem, the troubling decline of bee populations and how his team at Westlake University is responding to this.
Tom Wanger is an interdisciplinary scientist, working broadly on sustainable natural resource use and land-use change at multiple spatial scales. Tom is a graduate from the University of Adelaide, Australia jointly with the National University of Singapore, Singapore (PhD, Environmental Sciences) and former Postdoc at Stanford University, US and SLU, Sweden. In the past, he received multiple awards for example for his work on land-use change impacts on biodiversity in Indonesia. He is a ‘Researcher’ in the Agroecology Group at the University of Göttingen, Germany and is the ‘Director of Research’ of AMAP, Germany & Brazil. Besides his career in research, he held senior management positions in international organizations and a technology start-up. Tom joined Westlake University in December 2019 as an Associate Professor and PI of the “Sustainability, Agriculture, and Technology” lab.
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