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Peter G. Kevan

Peter G. Kevan

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
66
Citations
16630
World Ranking
1684
National Ranking
104

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Peter G. Kevan is affiliated with the University of Guelph in Canada, focusing on Agricultural and Biological Sciences with a strong emphasis on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, and Insect Science. Their research encompasses subfields including Genetics and Molecular Biology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to biological studies.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, primarily Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior. Additional areas covered in their research include Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Light Effects on Plants, Animal and Plant Science Education, and Plant Reproductive Biology.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Vera Vasas, Juliana Villa, Quentin D. Jamison, Anna G. Siegle, and Pavan Kumar Reddy Katta. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse range of publications across various scientific journals.

Key recent publications by Peter G. Kevan include:

  • Heat accumulation in hollow Arctic flowers: possible microgreenhouse effects in syncalyces of campions (Silene spp. (Caryophyllaceae)) and zygomorphic sympetalous corollas of louseworts (Pedicularis spp. (Orobanchaceae)), 2020, Polar Biology
  • Thermodynamics, thermal performance and climate change: temperature regimes for bumblebee (Bombus spp.) colonies as examples of superorganisms, 2024, Frontiers in Bee Science
  • Heliocaminiform structures: plant organs that function as microgreenhouses, 2024, FACETS

Peter G. Kevan has contributed to publications in prominent venues such as Frontiers in Bee Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Pollination Ecology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and FACETS. Their work has appeared regularly in Frontiers in Bee Science, with four publications in this venue.

Among their academic distinctions, Peter G. Kevan was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009, within the Academy of Science category.

Best Publications

  • Insects as Flower Visitors and Pollinators

    and P G Kevan;H G Baker

  • Practical Pollination Biology

    A. Dafni;P. G. Kevan;B. C. Husband

  • Pollinators as bioindicators of the state of the environment: species, activity and diversity

    Peter G Kevan

  • Flies and flowers: taxonomic diversity of anthophiles and pollinators

    B.M.H. Larson;P.G. Kevan;D.W. Inouye

  • Summary for policymakers of the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on pollinators, pollination and food production

    Simon G. Potts;Vera Imperatriz Fonseca;Hien T. Ngo;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer

  • Detection of coloured stimuli by honeybees: minimum visual angles and receptor specific contrasts

    M. Giurfa;M. Giurfa;M. Vorobyev;M. Vorobyev;P. Kevan;P. Kevan;R. Menzel

  • The Economic Impacts of Pollinator Declines: An Approach to Assessing the Consequences

    Peter G. Kevan;Truman P. Phillips

  • Insect pollination of high Arctic flowers

    Peter G. Kevan

  • Functional mismatch in a bumble bee pollination mutualism under climate change.

    Nicole E. Miller-Struttmann;Nicole E. Miller-Struttmann;Jennifer C. Geib;James D. Franklin;Peter G. Kevan

  • Sun-tracking solar furnaces in high arctic flowers: significance for pollination and insects.

    Peter G. Kevan

  • Arctic arthropods : a review of systematics and ecology with particular reference to the North American fauna

    H. V. Danks

  • Flower petal microtexture is a tactile cue for bees

    Peter G. Kevan;Meredith A. Lane

  • Insect pollinators and sustainable agriculture

    Peter G. Kevan;E. Ann Clark;Vernon G. Thomas

  • Promotion of weed species diversity and reduction of weed seedbanks with conservation tillage and crop rotation

    Stephen D. Murphy;David R. Clements;Svenja Belaoussoff;Peter G. Kevan

  • FLIES AND FLOWERS III: ECOLOGY OF FORAGING AND POLLINATION

    David W Inouye;Brendon M. H. Larson;Axel Ssymank;Peter G. Kevan

  • SPATIAL FLOWER PARAMETERS AND INSECT SPATIAL VISION

    A. Dafni;M. Lehrer;P. G. Kevan

  • Why are there so many and so few white flowers

    Peter Kevan;Martin Giurfa;Lars Chittka

  • Functional significance of the optical properties of flowers for visual signalling.

    Casper J van der Kooi;Adrian G Dyer;Peter G Kevan;Klaus Lunau

  • Limits to the salience of ultraviolet: lessons from colour vision in bees and birds

    Peter G Kevan;Lars Chittka;Adrian Geoffrey Dyer

  • The potential of cleptoparasitic bees as indicator taxa for assessing bee communities

    Cory S. Sheffield;Alana Pindar;Laurence Packer;Peter G. Kevan

  • Factors affecting pollen dynamics and its importance to pollen contamination: a review

    F. Di-Giovanni;P. G. Kevan

  • Interrelationships of early terrestrial arthropods and plants

    P G Kevan;W G Chaloner;D B O Savile

  • Effectiveness of Honey Bees for Applying the Biocontrol Agent Gliocladium Roseum to Strawberry Flowers to Suppress Botrytis Cinerea

    G. Peng;J.C. Sutton;P.G. Kevan

  • Pollinating Bees: The Conservation Link between Agriculture and Nature

    Peter G. Kevan;Vera Lúcia Imperatriz-Fonseca

Frequent Co-Authors

Candace Galen
Candace Galen University of Missouri
Amots Dafni
Amots Dafni University of Haifa
Breno Magalhães Freitas
Breno Magalhães Freitas Universidade Federal do Ceará
Jack T. Trevors
Jack T. Trevors University of Guelph
Laurence Packer
Laurence Packer York University
David W. Inouye
David W. Inouye University of Maryland, College Park
Lars Chittka
Lars Chittka Queen Mary University of London
Simon G. Potts
Simon G. Potts University of Reading
Martin Giurfa
Martin Giurfa Sorbonne University
Clarence J. Swanton
Clarence J. Swanton University of Guelph

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