Bio

Elsa uses geospatial analytics to understand urban landscapes from an insect perspective. She combines ecological fieldwork with spatial models to evaluate resource accessibility and demographic processes in complex landscapes, ultimately informing the management of rare and beneficial insects. Other interests include thermal ecology and pollination biology, particularly in the context of urbanization and climate change.

Publications

• Colony Structure and Redescription of Males in the Rarely Collected Arboreal Ant, Aphaenogaster mariae Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) , The Catalogue of Life (2026)
• Data from: To provide pollinator nesting habitat, cut dead perennial stems in their first winter , DRYAD (2026)
• Data from: Wealth does not buy richness: Plant and soil bacterial diversity in temperate suburban lawns are not influenced by income , DRYAD (2026)
• Nesting biology shapes climate vulnerability of social bees ( Bombus spp.) , Journal of Animal Ecology (2026)
• Thermal limits reveal asymmetric climate vulnerability across a solitary bee species' range , Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2026)
• Thermal limits reveal asymmetric climate vulnerability across a solitary bee species' range , Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2026)
• Wealth does not buy richness: plant and soil bacterial diversity in temperate suburban yards are not influenced by income , Urban Ecosystems (2026)
• Bee-Mediated Pollen Transport Across Five Urban Landscape Features: Buildings Are Important Barriers , ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2025)
• Data from: Spring ephemeral Erythronium umbilicatum may not be vulnerable to phenological mismatch with overstory trees , Open MIND (2025)
• Land Use Change Consistently Reduces α‐ But Not β‐ and γ‐Diversity of Bees , Global Change Biology (2025)