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Katherine J. Turo

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University

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Early career · publishing since 2019
Plant and animal studiesEcology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesInsect and Pesticide ResearchUrban Green Space and HealthInsect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior

Publications

20

Citations

507

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

8

Publishing since 2019

Research summary
AI-generated

Katherine J. Turo studies wild bees and their role as pollinators, focusing on how forests, farmland, and land-use change affect bee diversity and their interactions with flowering plants and crops. Her work combines field surveys of bee communities with newer molecular tools, such as pollen DNA metabarcoding, to track which bees visit which plants. This research is relevant to understanding crop pollination, forest ecosystems, and conservation of native bee species.

Wild bee ecology and diversityPollination of crops and forest plantsEffects of land use change on pollinatorsPollen DNA metabarcoding methodsInsect taxonomy and natural history

Publication output was minimal before 2019, then became more active and variable from 2019 onward, with a notable increase in output in 2025-2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.4/year recently
17182019: 2 publications192020: 4 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 3 publications22232024: 2 publications242025: 5 publications5252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Applied Ecology×2
  • Urban Ecosystems×2
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×2
  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment×1
  • Molecular Ecology×1
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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