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This ecologist uses fake flowers to study India’s insects

Shannon Olsson examines the behaviour of insect pollinators to understand their reaction to a changing climate.
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Shannon Olsson and a teammate conduct fieldwork on pollinators in Bengaluru, India.

Shannon Olsson is a chemical ecologist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bengaluru, India. Credit: Sayan Hazra for Nature

John Muir, the nineteenth-century naturalist, once wrote that a “multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours”. As a chemical ecologist, I study those ‘animal people’.

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Nature 612, 582 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04427-4

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  • Correction 13 December 2022: An earlier version of this story misspelt the name of Shannon Olsson’s institution. She is at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, not the Tartar Institute of Fundamental Research.

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