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Habitat: subalpine meadow

Papers: 3 | Mentions: 3

Publications (3)

article

Up high, hot and dry: Individual reproductive output in subalpine bees declines with increasing drought severity

2025Global Change Biologyprimary study site

thesis

How vulnerable are pollen-specialist solitary bees to temperature-mediated shifts in the timing of food availability?

2019study site

article

Direct benefits and indirect costs of warm temperatures for high-elevation populations of a solitary bee

2017Ecologysecondary site

Species Studied Here

KC

Publications (3)

Up high, hot and dry: Individual reproductive output in subalpine bees declines with increasing drought severity

How vulnerable are pollen-specialist solitary bees to temperature-mediated shifts in the timing of food availability?

Direct benefits and indirect costs of warm temperatures for high-elevation populations of a solitary bee

Species Studied Here

Sapyga

Vicia americana

Lathyrus lanszwertii

Osmia iridis

Megachilidae

Osmia mason bees

Hymenoptera

solitary bees

Colias philodice eriphyle

Asteraceae