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Research Plan
Effect of climate variability on bee phenology and abundance
Principal Investigator:
Rebecca Irwin
Status:
active
Field:
Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas:
Animal Behavior; Climate change; Community ecology; Insect biology; Long-term research; Phenology; Plant biology; Pollination; Species Interactions
Items:
148 (118 publications, 27 datasets, 3 documents)
Publications (118)
Thesis
Phenological drivers and consequences for solitary bees
2024
Thesis
Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator interaction rewiring
2023
Article
Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems
2022
Arctic Science
DOI: 10.1139/as-2020-0058
Article
Nectar addition changes pollinator behavior but not plant reproduction in pollen rewarding <i> Lupinus argenteus</i>
2021
American Journal of Botany
DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1613
Article
Support early-career field researchers
2020
Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abc1261
Article
Effects of flowering plant density on pollinator visitation, pollen receipt, and seed production in <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i>
2009
American Journal of Botany
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0800260
Article
Ecology and evolution of plant-pollinator interactions
2009
Annals of Botany
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcp122
Article
Mechanisms of tolerance to floral larceny in two animal-pollinated wildflowers, <i>Polemonium viscosum</i> and <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>
2008
Ecology
Article
Temporal and spatial variation in pollination of a montane herb: a seven-year study
2005
Ecology
DOI: 10.1890/04-1274
Article
Direct and indirect effects of pollinators and seed predators to selection on plant and floral traits
2004
Oikos
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.12641.x
Article
Linking pollinator visitation rate and pollen receipt
2003
American Journal of Botany
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.90.11.1612
Article
Variation in nectar robbing over time, space, and species
2002
Oecologia
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1060-z
Article
A trade-off between the frequency and duration of bumblebee visits to flowers
1998
Oecologia
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050644
Student Paper
Using abiotic factors to predict seasonal bee abundance.
2014
Thesis
How vulnerable are pollen-specialist solitary bees to temperature-mediated shifts in the timing of food availability?
2019
Student Paper
Global Climate Change Induced Shifts in Water Availability Alter Pollinator Visitation.
2014
Thesis
Timing is everything: Phenological change and the implications for plants, pollinators and their interactions.
2015
Student Paper
Effects of Bombus removals on Diptera Foraging Behaviors.
2014
Publication
Effects of frost on wildflowers: an unexpected consequence of climate change
2011
Thesis
Bee foraging in space and time: linking individual behaviour to pollination
2014
Student Paper
Flower constancy in bees: yes or no?
1982
Student Paper
Tracking changes in montane butterfly populations through the lens of climate change
2023
Student Paper
Thermal reguation of bumblebees
1973
Student Paper
The influence of different types of disturbance on insect diversity
1995
Student Paper
The dispersion of nectar resources as a result of bumblebee foraging
1983
Student Paper
Temporal Patterns in Foraging activity of Colorado Montane Bumblebees.
2014
Chapter
Honey Bee Colony Health: Challenges and Sustainable Solutions
2011
Thesis
Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context
2019
Student Paper
The effect of global warming on soil mesofauna
1992
Student Paper
Variation of pollinator species at different times of day
2001
Thesis
Organization of a plant-pollinator community in a seasonal environment
1984
Article
Factors affecting pollinator visitation rates: a biogeographic comparison
1993
Current Science
Student Paper
Population relationships of bees and bee mimic flies
1973
Thesis
Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change
2022
Article
The hole truth: why do bumble bees rob flowers more than once?
2024
Plants
DOI: 10.3390/plants13172507
Article
Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups
2023
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2181
Article
Skewness in bee and flower phenological distributions
2023
Ecology
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3890
Article
Comparative impacts of long-term trends in snowmelt and species interactions on plant population dynamics
2022
Journal of Ecology
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13875
Article
Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation
2022
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2697
Article
Plant removal across an elevational gradient marginally reduces rates, substantially reduces variation in mineralization
2022
Ecology
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3546
Article
The sensory and cognitive ecology of nectar robbing
2021
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.698137
Article
Bumble bees are constant to nectar-robbing behaviour despite low switching costs
2020
Animal Behaviour
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.09.008
Article
Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy
2020
Ecological Entomology
DOI: 10.1111/een.12866
Article
Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits
2020
Ecology Letters
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13583
Article
Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees
2020
Biological Conservation doi 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108821
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108821
Article
Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines
2019
American Journal of Botany
DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1283
Article
The individual and combined effects of snowmelt timing and frost exposure on the reproductive success of montane forbs
2019
Journal of Ecology
Article
Why are some plant-nectar robber interactions commensalisms?
2018
Oikos
DOI: 10.1111/oik.05440
Article
Costs and benefits of alternative food handling tactics help explain facultative exploitation of pollination mutualisms
2018
Ecological Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2395
Article
Direct and indirect effects of episodic frost on plants growth and reproduction in subalpine wildflowers
2018
Global Change Biology
Showing 50 of 118 publications
Datasets (27)
Dataset
Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits
2021
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t76hdr7zc
Dataset
Osmia_iridis_summer_duration_expt_2014-15
2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/2
Dataset
Data from: Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology.
2017
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5400796
Dataset
Appendix C. Relationships between temperature and arrival of Broad-tailed Hummingbirds and flowering onset in its early-season nectar resources at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado, USA.
2021
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3554139.v1
Dataset
Yearly bee catch data
2015
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5385j/5
Dataset
Impacts of beekeeping on wild bee diversity and pollination networks in the Aegean Archipelago
2021
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8psn
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
Osmia_iridis_2015_summer_incubator_expt
2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/3
Documents (3)
Document
Wildlife Impacts
Document
Beavers: Biologists "Rediscover" a Natural Resource
Document
Beavers and Their Control
Dataset
Plant phenology, aphid colony growth, and honeydew deposition data
2023
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1ns1rn8xg
Dataset
Data from: The individual and combined effects of snowmelt timing and frost exposure on the reproductive success of montane forbs
2019
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.kd1r166
Dataset
Osmia_iridis_development_by_DD_2015-16
2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/5
Dataset
Osmia_iridis_2016_summer_incubator_expt
2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/4
Dataset
Data from: Variation in season length and development time is sufficient to drive the emergence and coexistence of social and solitary behavioral strategies
2024
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.rjdfn2zmr
Dataset
Long-term bee phenology and abundance data at the RMBL, Gothic, Colorado
2020
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/KMXYN
Dataset
Data from: Experimental species removals impact the architecture of pollination networks
2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b5h65
Dataset
Flowering phenology in subalpine meadows: Does climate variation influence community co-flowering patterns?
2021
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3301874.v1
Dataset
Data from: Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks
2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s91p4
Dataset
Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology
2021
DOI: 10.7280/D19X0D
Dataset
Data from: The effect of repeated, lethal sampling on wild bee abundance and diversity
2016
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5385j
Dataset
An organizing feature of bumble bee life history: worker emergence promotes queen reproduction and survival in young nests
2021
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.jdfn2z383
Dataset
Data from: Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees
2025
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.cc2fqz6g9
Dataset
Data from: Flying by night: Comparing nocturnal pollinator networks over time in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
2024
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.j6q573npc
Dataset
Data from: Reproductive losses due to climate change-induced earlier flowering are not the primary threat to plant population viability in a perennial herb
2019
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.863c8sk
Dataset
Malaise_trap_ReadME.txt
2023
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20415819
Dataset
Malaise_trap_ReadME.txt
2023
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20415819.v1
Dataset
Abundance richness and evenness data VOUCHERED BEES
2015
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5385j/1
Dataset
Supplementary material from "Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators"
2025
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7948797