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Research Plan
Context-dependent effects of nectar microbes on pollination mutualisms
Principal Investigator:
Robert Schaeffer
Status:
active
Field:
Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas:
Animal Behavior; Community ecology; Insect biology; Microbiology; Plant biology; Pollination; Soil/microbial ecology; Species Interactions
Items:
77 (53 publications, 21 datasets, 3 documents)
Publications (53)
Thesis
Microbial mediation of plant-pollinator interactions
2014
Thesis
The causes and consequences of pollen defence
2023
Article
Nectar Yeasts in the Tall Larkspur <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i> (Ranunculaceae) and Effects on Components of Pollinator Foraging Behavior
2014
PloS one
Thesis
Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator interaction rewiring
2023
Student Paper
Nectar reward and pollinator specificity
1983
Chapter
Plant-pollinator interactions: from specialization to generalization
2005
Student Paper
Effects of "nectar guides" on pollinator visitation and seed set
1991
Article
Community and evolutionary ecology of nectar.
2004
Ecology
Thesis
Competition and cooperation in plant/pollinator systems
1978
Student Paper
The dispersion of nectar resources as a result of bumblebee foraging
1983
Chapter
The Biology of Nectaries
1982
Chapter
Cognitive ecology of pollination
2001
Chapter
Cognitive ecology of pollination
2001
Book
Cognitive ecology of pollination
2001
Article
Endangered mutualisms: the conservaiton of plant-pollinator interactions
1998
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
Thesis
The role of fly pollination in montane habitats
1990
Student Paper
Linking pollinator behavior and pollen receipt in Ipomopsis aggregata
2001
Article
Factors affecting pollinator visitation rates: a biogeographic comparison
1993
Current Science
Thesis
Organization of a plant-pollinator community in a seasonal environment
1984
Thesis
Bee foraging in space and time: linking individual behaviour to pollination
2014
Thesis
Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change
2022
Article
Effects of spatial patterning of co-flowering plant species on pollination quantity and purity
2018
Annals of Botany
Student Paper
Specificity of pollinating butterflies
1973
Thesis
Timing is everything: Phenological change and the implications for plants, pollinators and their interactions.
2015
Student Paper
Specificity of pollinators in mountain meadows
1973
Student Paper
The effects of nectar robbing on the reproductive success of <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>
1993
Student Paper
Bumblebee foraging behavior: the roles of floral scent and color
1994
Thesis
Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context
2019
Article
The use and abuse of pollinators by fungi
1994
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(94)90154-6
Article
Variation in nectar robbing over time, space, and species
2002
Oecologia
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1060-z
Thesis
The ecology of co-infection in the phyllosphere: unraveling the interactions between microbes, insect herbivores, and the host plants they share.
2015
Article
Connecting pollination deficits and pollinator declines: can theory guide us?
2001
Conservation Ecology
Thesis
Competition for pollination and the evolution of flowering time
1977
Article
Specialization, pollination syndromes, and the evolution of floral diversity
2004
Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics
Student Paper
Comparing pollen presentation in bee and hummingbird pollinated penstemons
2003
Student Paper
The effect of herbivory on nectar production of <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>
1992
Article
Abiotic mediation of a mutualism drives herbivore abundance.
2016
Ecology Letters
Article
The effects of nonsugar nectar constituents on estimates of nectar energy content
1980
Ecology
DOI: 10.2307/1936767
Thesis
Adaptive nature of floral nectar production rate for the hummingbird-pollinated plant <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>
1991
Thesis
The ecological effects of nectar robbers, with an emphasis on the reproductive biology of <i>Corydalis caseana</i>
1999
Student Paper
Effects of Bombus removals on Diptera Foraging Behaviors.
2014
Student Paper
The effects of floral morphology on interspecific pollen transfer in <i>Ipomopsis</i>
1991
Student Paper
Natural variation in pollinator composition and services: effects on the reproductive success of <i></i>Ipomopsis aggregata<i></i>
1997
Book
Techniques for Pollination Biologists
1993
Student Paper
The foraging behavior of bees in response to the floral biology of <i>Frasera speciosa</i> (Gentianaceae)
2003
Article
Nectar yeasts in <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i> (Ranunculaceae) and their effects on nectar quality
2015
Fungal Ecology
Article
Yeasts in nectar enhance male fitness in a montane perennial herb
2014
Ecology
DOI: 10.1890/13-1740.1
Student Paper
Bumblebee foraging: can observed preferences of two bee species be explained by their foraging efficiencies on flowers of two different plant species?
1993
Student Paper
Nectar preferences in hummingbirds
1981
Student Paper
Global Climate Change Induced Shifts in Water Availability Alter Pollinator Visitation.
2014
Showing 50 of 53 publications
Datasets (21)
Dataset
Data from: Foraging efficiency and size matching in a plant – pollinator community: the importance of sugar content and tongue length
2020
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2s74q4
Dataset
Data from: Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness consequences for plants
2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.tf71f
Dataset
Pollinator visitation on Na-enriched plants in a subalpine meadow
2023
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7h44j1018
Dataset
Supplementary material from "Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators"
2025
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7948797
Dataset
Data from: Quantifying direct vs. indirect effects of nectar robbers on male and female components of plant fitness
2016
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.p33fm
Dataset
Data from: Experimental species removals impact the architecture of pollination networks
2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b5h65
Dataset
Data from: Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks
2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s91p4
Dataset
Dispersal of pollen analogue by Valeriana edulis pollinators
2016
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1cf8p/8
Documents (3)
Document
Wildlife Impacts
Document
Cattle a Vital Link in the Global Food Chain
Document
Effect of Keystone Mine Effluent on Colonization of Stream Benthos
Dataset
Global Bee Interaction Data
2025
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14624975
Dataset
Impacts of beekeeping on wild bee diversity and pollination networks in the Aegean Archipelago
2021
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8psn
Dataset
Data from: Flying by night: Comparing nocturnal pollinator networks over time in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
2024
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.j6q573npc
Dataset
Pollination neighborhood survey data
2016
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1cf8p/10
Dataset
Global Bee Interaction Data
2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12639658
Dataset
Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology
2021
DOI: 10.7280/D19X0D
Dataset
Data from: Asteraceae pollen provisions protect Osmia mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from brood parasitism
2016
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4sd09
Dataset
Data from: Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant
2023
DOI: 10.7280/D1JM40
Dataset
Experimental test of the combined effects of water availability and flowering time on pollinator visitation and seed set
2023
DOI: 10.7280/D16D7Z
Dataset
Data from: Selection of floral traits by pollinators and seed predators during sequential life history stages
2021
DOI: 10.7280/D1KM49
Dataset
Data from: Attract or defend? Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines
2019
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.586f011
Dataset
Data from: Influence of plant reproductive systems on the evolution of hummingbird pollination
2025
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.bnzs7h4cj
Dataset
Data from: Context-dependent reproductive isolation mediated by floral scent and color
2014
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.650sb