Erica Sarro Gustilo
Post-doc
I am an organismal ecologist interested in the mechanistic links between individual behavior and physiology and population-level trends. As an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology, I am investigating the mechanistic causes of range contractions in bumble bees. I am broadly interested in promoting pollinator and wildlife conservation and sustainable land management, as well as cultivating scientific curiosity and environmental stewardship in our communities.
Updated October 2024
Education
PhD in Entomology, 2022 University of California, Riverside
Bachelor of Arts in Biology, 2014 Colorado College
Publications
Sarro Gustilo E, K Fisher, SH Woodard (2023) Parental care behavior in bumble bee queens is tightly regulated by the number of helpers in incipient nests. Animal Behaviour. 203, 241-250.
Sarro E (2022) Bumble bee queen plasticity and social regulation of traits. UC Riverside eScholarship.
Sarro E, A Tripodi, SH Woodard (2022) Bumble bee (B. vosnesenskii) queen nest searching occurs independent of ovary developmental status. Integrative Organismal Biology. obac007.
^Fisher K, ^Sarro E, *C Miranda, *B Guillen, SH Woodard (2022) Worker task organization in incipient bumble bee nests. Animal Behaviour. 185:143-161.
Sarro E, P Sun, K Mauck, *D Rodriguez-Arellano, N Yamanaka, SH Woodard (2021) An organizing feature of bumble bee life history: worker emergence promotes queen reproduction and survival in young nests. Conservation Physiology 9(1):coab047.
^shared first authorship; *undergraduate mentee