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Research Plan
How interactions with mutualists & predators shape plant coexistence
Principal Investigator:
Alden Sears
Status:
active
Field:
Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas:
Community ecology; Plant biology; Pollination; Species Interactions; Theory
Items:
67 (52 publications, 14 datasets, 1 documents)
Publications (52)
Thesis
Competition and cooperation in plant/pollinator systems
1978
Chapter
Effects of Resource Distribution on Animal-Plant Interactions
1992
Thesis
Microbial mediation of plant-pollinator interactions
2014
Thesis
The ecology of co-infection in the phyllosphere: unraveling the interactions between microbes, insect herbivores, and the host plants they share.
2015
Thesis
Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator interaction rewiring
2023
Chapter
Plant-pollinator interactions: from specialization to generalization
2005
Chapter
Perspectives on plant competition
1990
Article
Abiotic mediation of a mutualism drives herbivore abundance.
2016
Ecology Letters
Thesis
Organization of a plant-pollinator community in a seasonal environment
1984
Thesis
Predicting trophic cascades in an antagonistic/mutualistic web
2014
Thesis
Causes and consequences of plant responses to environmental change over physiological, ecological, and evolutionary time.
2015
Student Paper
Influence of host plant height and distribution on herbivory patterns
1984
Student Paper
An exploration of the effects of ant-aphid interaction on host plant growth
1995
Article
Endangered mutualisms: the conservaiton of plant-pollinator interactions
1998
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
Student Paper
Plant selection of mycorrhizal symbionts in response to abiotic stress.
2015
Student Paper
Altitudinal variation of metabolic rates in <i>Peromyscus maniculatus</i>
1979
Article
<i>Response</i> : Our Upper Colorado River Project
1955
Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.122.3172.691.a
Student Paper
Plant community structure as a function of grazing by cattle
1995
Student Paper
The effects of predation by small mammals on a grass community
1974
Thesis
Herbivory and pollination in hemiparasitic plants: effects of host plant and host-obtained alkaloids
2000
Chapter
The Role of Arthropods in Forest Ecosystems
1977
Student Paper
Avian species interactions vs. niche
1980
Article
Floral mimicry, coevolution of hosts and pathogens, and stress tolerance versus resistance to pathogens
1996
Bulletin of the Geobotanical Institute ETH
Article
Bears benefit plants via a cascade with both antagonistic and mutualistic interactions
2015
Ecology Letters
Publication
Responses to herbivory in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>; implications for fitness and biotic interactions
2000
Student Paper
Do species interactions underlie changes in vegetation observed in a meadow-warming experiment?
1999
Thesis
Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions
2008
Student Paper
ArctoLemania: Not the effects of plant-animal mutualisms
1992
Article
What plant ecologists can learn from zoology
1998
Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
DOI: 10.1078/1433-8319-00056
Thesis
Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change
2022
Student Paper
Plant and insect diversity and abundance: resilience in response to human disturbance
1997
Thesis
The causes and consequences of pollen defence
2023
Thesis
Timing is everything: Phenological change and the implications for plants, pollinators and their interactions.
2015
Student Paper
Patterns in insect herbivory
1981
Thesis
Competition for pollination and the evolution of flowering time
1977
Student Paper
Interspecific competition in Rocky Mountain meadow flora
1983
Article
Stability properties of two-species models of mutualism: simulation studies
1981
Oecologia
Thesis
The ecology and evolution of symbioses between lycaenid butterflies and ants
1983
Thesis
Mechanisms of competition for pollination between two Colorado wildflowers
1987
Chapter
Biological Approaches and Evolutionary Trends in Plants
1990
Article
Effects of spatial patterning of co-flowering plant species on pollination quantity and purity
2018
Annals of Botany
Article
Effective mutualism between sequentially flowering plant species
1979
Nature
DOI: 10.1038/281670a0
Student Paper
The Commonality of Herbivorous Trophic Links with Regard to Spatial Scale
1999
Article
The use and abuse of pollinators by fungi
1994
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(94)90154-6
Thesis
Effect of competition for pollination on the ecology and evolution of a hummingbird-pollinated plant, <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>
1999
Chapter
Cognitive ecology of pollination
2001
Book
Cognitive ecology of pollination
2001
Chapter
Plant Reproductive Ecology: Patterns and Strategies
1988
Student Paper
The Effect of an Ant-Aphid Mutualism on Deer Herbivory of Valariana edulis
2003
Article
Resistance to pre-dispersal seed predators in a natural hybrid zone
2002
Oecologia
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0900-1
Showing 50 of 52 publications
Datasets (14)
Dataset
Data for Context-dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients, 2014, 2016, Colorado, USA
2020
DOI: 10.6073/pasta/953d0af267ddb6a0ddb970bff3218a61
Dataset
Data from: Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks
2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s91p4
Dataset
Data from: Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness consequences for plants
2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.tf71f
Dataset
Data from: Linking microenvironment modification to species interactions and demography in an alpine plant community
2023
DOI: 10.6078/D1342B
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: 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: Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant
Documents (1)
Document
Beaver Management in Grazed Riparian Ecosystems
2023
DOI: 10.7280/D1JM40
Dataset
Data from: Microenvironment and functional-trait context dependence predict alpine plant community dynamics
2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.33410
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: Comparative impacts of long-term trends in snowmelt and species interactions on plant population dynamics
2022
DOI: 10.7280/D1D99J
Dataset
Plant height and species information
2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.772h7/2
Dataset
Ecological causes and consequences of flower color polymorphism in a self-pollinating plant (Boechera stricta)
2021
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.q0032
Dataset
Data from: Attract or defend? Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines
2019
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.586f011