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Coleoptera

Common names: beetles, large beetles

Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Coleoptera > Liaoximordellidae

Roles: study subject, pollinator, habitat component

ITIS TSN: 109216

Synonyms: Non-EPT

External: RMBL Collections

Papers: 126 | Mentions: 139

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 76 entities)

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Publications (126)

student_paper

Predation of Aphids (Aphis asclepiadis) by Syrphid Flies on Osha (Ligusticum porteri)

2026Role: text_match

student_paper

The Influence of Habitat and Parenting Style on the Reproductive Success of the Burying Beetle Nicrophorus investigator

2026Role: text_match

article

Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

student_paper

Out of sight, out of mind: The role of carcass burial and maintenance in reducing competition in Nicrophorus investigator

2025Role: text_match

article

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

Documents (12)

technical report

An Integrated Wastewater Treatment and Reuse System to Enhance Wildlife and Other Estuarine Values

environmental assessment

Draft Environmental Statement Related to the Homestake Mining Company- Homestake Mining Company Pitch Project

federal rule

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for Southwestern Willow Flycatcher

federal proposed rule

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Western Distinct Population Segment of the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

federal rule

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Western Distinct Population Segment of the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

federal proposed rule

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Determination for the Gunnison Sage-grouse as a Threatened or Endangered Species

federal proposed rule

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Status for Gunnison Sage-Grouse

federal rule

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Final Listing Determination for the Gunnison Sage-Grouse as Threatened or Endangered

federal rule

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Threatened Status for Gunnison Sage-Grouse

Document

Mount Emmons Aquatic Ecology Baseline Studies

Co-occurring Species

Beetles

109 shared papers

Diptera

65 shared papers

Lepidoptera

52 shared papers

Hymenoptera

49 shared papers

Hemiptera

37 shared papers

Nicrophorus investigator

Silphidae31 shared papers

Trichoptera

31 shared papers

Spiders

31 shared papers

Odonata

27 shared papers

Mayflies

Ephemeroptera27 shared papers

2025

Global Change Biology

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Changes in insect population dynamics due to climate change

2024Effects of Climate Change on Insects: Physiological, Evolutionary, and Ecological ResponsesRole: text_match

student_paper

Coexistence in Burying Beetles: The Niche of Reproductive Temperatures

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

The Fate of Burying Beetles and their Carcasses: Hardships, Competition and Environmental Factors

2024Role: text_match

thesis

Cross-trophic-level dynamics in aquatic ecosystems and their application across ecological contexts

2023Role: text_match

article

Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America

2023EcologyRole: text_match

thesis

Genetic mechanisms underlying maladaptation in specialized species interactions

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

How beaver pond age affects aquatic invertebrates

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

Looking through leftovers: an analysis of bee bowl bycatch

2023Role: text_match

chapter

Sage-Grouse

2023Role: text_match

article

Scientists’ warning on climate change and insects

2023Ecological MonographsRole: study subject

chapter

Silviculture

2023Role: text_match

thesis

The causes and consequences of pollen defence

2023Role: text_match

article

Carry-over effects of larval food stress on adult energetics and life history in a nectar-feeding butterfly

2022Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Temperature on Voltinism in Subalpine Potter Wasps (Vespidae: Eumeninae)

2022Role: text_match

article

Novel host unmasks heritable variation in plant preference within an insect population

2022EvolutionRole: text_match

article

The Evolution and Ecology of Interactions Between Ants and Honeydew-Producing Hemipteran Insects

2022The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and SystematicsRole: text_match

student_paper

Abundance and elevational range shifts of three species of burying beetle in Gunnison County, Colorado and importance of stridulation during reproduction in burying beetles

2021Role: text_match

article

Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee Halictus rubicundus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

2021Journal of Chemical EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Energy Fluxes of Terrestrial and Aquatic Invertebrates in the East River

2021Role: study subject

article

From Insects to Frogs, Egg–Juvenile Recruitment Can Have Persistent Effects on Population Sizes

2021Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and SystematicsRole: text_match

article

Nanda-Hamner Curves Show Huge Latitudinal Variation but No Circadian Components in Drosophila Montana Photoperiodism

2021Journal of Biological RhythmsRole: text_match

thesis

The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

2021Role: text_match

article

Experience may outweigh cue similarity in maintaining a persistent host plant-based evolutionary trap.

2020Ecological Monographs. doi 10.1002/ecm.1412Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of pond permanence on avian behaviors

2019Role: text_match

thesis

Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

2019Role: text_match

article

Progressive sensitivity of trophic levels to warming underlies an elevational gradient in ant–aphid mutualism strength

2019OikosRole: text_match

thesis

Snowmelt affects aphid (Aphis asclepladis) populations through soil moisture and host plant phenology

2019Role: text_match

thesis

Stoichiometry and infectious disease: Linking chemical elements and parasitic interactions

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Stridulation in Nicrophorus investigator as a Possible Means of Cooperation during Carcass Sequestration

2019Role: text_match

thesis

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

2019Role: text_match

thesis

The persistent maladaptation of Pieris macdunnoughii: Constraints on adaptation to an evolutionary trap

2019Role: text_match

article

Two-year bee or not two-year bee? How voltinism is affected by temperature and season length in a high-elevation solitary bee

2019American NaturalistRole: text_match

article

Building up Biogeography: Pattern to Process

2018Journal of BiogeographyRole: text_match

thesis

Changes of dispersal ability in an isolated population

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Ant Presence on Nicrophorus investigatorâ€™s Reproductive Success

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

Nutrient excretion rates of common aquatic taxa in high elevation ponds at the Mexican Cut

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

Conflict of interest? Investigating the costs and benefits of herbivore defense using the model plant Boechera stricta

2017Role: text_match

article

Multitrophic interactions mediate theÂ effects ofÂ climate change onÂ herbivore abundance

2017OecologiaRole: text_match

student_paper

Native ant (Formica rufa, Formica fusca), Nicrophorus spp. interactions at small mammal carcass resources in the southern Rocky Mountains, Gunnison National Forest, Colorado.

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

Neighborhood Influence on Plant Interactions with Seed-Eating Flies and Pollinating Bees

2017Role: text_match

article

Phenological shifts of native and invasive species under climate change: insights from the Boechera Lythrum model

2017Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

article

Caddisfly behavioral responses to drying cues in temporary ponds: Implications for effects of climate change

2016Freshwater ScienceRole: text_match

student_paper

Habitat Selection in Nicrophoryus investigator and defodiens.

2015Role: text_match

article

Inferring Regional-Scale Species Diversity from Small-Plot Censuses

2015PLOS ONERole: text_match

student_paper

Investigating Herbivore Relationships to Boechera stricta in a Climate Change Context.

2015Role: text_match

student_paper

Roles of Stridulation in Nicophorus investigator.

2015Role: text_match

student_paper

Consequences of Pollination Neighborhood Composition and Pollinator Communities

2014Role: text_match

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Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient

2014PNASRole: text_match

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Nicrophorus investigator: The Effects of Asymmetry in Body Size on the Duration of Bi-parental Care.

2014Role: text_match

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Origin and specificity of predatory fish cues detected by Baetis larvae (Ephemeroptera; Insecta)

2014Animal BehaviourRole: text_match

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Rapid evolution and population divergence in response to environmental change in Colias butterlies

2014Role: text_match

student_paper

Reproductive Success and Parental Care of Nicrophorus investigator.

2014Role: text_match

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Roles of pollinators, seed predators, and vertebrate herbivores in maintaining females in the gynodioecious Polemonium foliosissimum.

2014Role: text_match

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Secondary compounds in floral rewards of toxic rangeland plants: impacts on pollinators

2014Journal of Agricultural and Food ChemistryRole: text_match

student_paper

Genetic variation in plant functional traits as drivers in arthropod community structure

2013Role: text_match

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Mechanisms underlying plant sexual dimorphism in multi-trophic arthropod communities

2013EcologyRole: text_match

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The effect of habitat on intra-generic competition

2013Role: text_match

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The effects of parental care on brood success and quality in the burying beetle Nicrophorus investigator

2013Role: text_match

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Influence of macronutrient imbalance on native ant foraging and interspecific interactions in the field

2012Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

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Plant responses to the joint effects of herbivores and pollinators

2012Role: text_match

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Butterflies show flower colour preferences but not constancy in foraging at four plant species

2011Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Causes of predation intensity in an ant/aphid mutualist system

2011Role: text_match

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Mining the plant-insect interface with a leafmining Drosophila of Arabidopsis

2011Molecular EcologyRole: text_match

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Parental investment in burying beetles (Nicrophorus investigator): influence of seasonal timing and prior experience and efficacy of minimally guided instructional strategies in K-12 and undergraduate science classrooms: a meta-analysis

2011Role: text_match

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Phylogenetic distance can predict susceptibility to attack by natural enemies

2011OikosRole: text_match

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Why do vulnerable mayflies thrive in trout streams?

2011American EntomologistRole: text_match

student_paper

A study of correlational selection through floral manipulations of Polemonium foliosissimum (Polemoniaceae)

2010Role: text_match

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Dispersal, phenology and habitat preference of subalpine whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae: Gyrinus)

2010Role: text_match

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Predator effects in predator-free space: The remote effects of predators on prey

2010The Open Ecology JournalRole: text_match

student_paper

Helianthella quinquernervis ray floret removal: effect on insect visitation frequency

2009Role: pollinator

student_paper

Sperm retention in female Nicrophorus investigator

2009Role: text_match

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Understanding insect life histories and senescence through a resource allocation lens

2009Functional EcologyRole: text_match

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Consumptive and non-consumptive effects of predators on metacommunities of competing prey

2008EcologyRole: text_match

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Evaluation of the field impact of an adventitious herbivore on an invasive plant, yellow toadflax, in CO, USA

2008Plant EcologyRole: text_match

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Phoretic mite discrimination among male burying beetle (Nicrophorus investigator) hosts

2008Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match

student_paper

Seasonal reproductive potential and iteroparity of the burying beetle (Coleoptera: Silphidae)

2008Role: text_match

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Foraging tactics in alternative heterochronic salamander morphs: trophic quality of ponds matters more than water permanency

2007Freshwater BiologyRole: text_match

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Male courtship song and female preference variation between phylogeographically distinct populations of Drosophila montana

2007EvolutionRole: text_match

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Predator defense along a permanence gradient: roles of case structure, behavior, and developmental phenology in caddisflies

2006OecologiaRole: text_match

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Selective oviposition by the mayfly Baetis bicaudatus

2006OecologiaRole: text_match

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Evolutionary ecology of facultative paedomorphosis in news and salamanders

2005Biological ReviewsRole: text_match

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Larval food limitation in butterflies: effects on adult resource allocation and fitness

2005OecologiaRole: text_match

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Temperature regulation in burying beetles (Nicrophorus spp.: Coleoptera: Silphidae): effects of body size, morphology and environmental temperature

2004The Journal of Experimental BiologyRole: text_match

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The dual role of floral traits: pollinator attraction and plant defense

2004EcologyRole: text_match

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The ecology of pollination and nectar robbing in Linaria vulgaris in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2004TSpaceRole: text_match

thesis

The structure of plant-pollinator interactions in montane meadow environments

2004Role: text_match

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Effect of larval body size on overwinter survival and emerging adult size in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus investigator

2002Canadian Journal of ZoologyRole: text_match

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Reach-scale Manipulations show invertebrate grazers depress algal resources in streams

2002Limnology and OceanographyRole: text_match

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Flies and flowers: taxonomic diversity of anthophiles and pollinators

2001Canadian EntomologistRole: text_match

student_paper

Inter- and intra-specific competition between and among Nicrophorus investigator and Nicrophorus defodiens

2001Role: text_match

student_paper

Multiple-paternity in burying beetles Nicrophorus investigator

2001Role: text_match

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Resource availability and population dynamics of Nicrophorus investigator, an obligate carrion breeder

2001Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

article

Altitudinal Variation in Body Size and Population Density ofNicrophorus investigator(Coleoptera: Silphidae)

2000Environmental EntomologyRole: text_match

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Altitudinal variation in body size and population density of Nicrophorus investigator (Coleoptera: Silphidae)

2000Environmental EntomologyRole: text_match

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Comparison of reproductive success of in-situ burial verrsus the use of abandoned burrows for carcass interment by Nicrophorus investigator (Coleoptera:Silphidae)

2000Journal of the Kansas Entomological SocietyRole: text_match

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Comparison of reproductive success of in-situ burial versus the use of abandoned burrows for carcass interment by Nicrophorus investigator (Coleoptera: Silphidae).

2000Journal of the Kansas Entomological SocietyRole: text_match

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Conservation of insect diversity: a habitat approach

2000Conservation BiologyRole: text_match

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Hydrologic and behavioral constraints on oviposition of stream insects: implications for adult dispersal

2000OecologiaRole: text_match

article

Oviposition and Diapause Behavior in Colorado Potato Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Populations from East Central Minnesota and the Valley of the Red River of the North

2000Environmental EntomologyRole: text_match

article

Foraging trade-offs along a predator-permanence gradient in subalpine wetlands

1999EcologyRole: text_match

chapter

Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and Management

1999Role: text_match

student_paper

Phoretic mite distributions among the burying beetle, Nicrophorus investigator

1998Role: text_match

article

Cyclic Colonization in Predictably Ephemeral Habitats: A Template for Biological Control in Annual Crop Systems

1997Biological ControlRole: text_match

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Carcass selection in a high altitude population of the burying beetle, Nicrophorus investigator, (Silphidae)

1995Southwestern NaturalistRole: text_match

article

Non-visual communication in freshwater benthos: an overview

1994Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyRole: text_match

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Migration of rufous hummingbirds

1993WildbirdRole: text_match

article

A general model of the role of male-donated nutrients in female insects' reproduction

1990American NaturalistRole: text_match

article

Seasonal variation in the intensity of competition and predation among dragonfly larvae

1989EcologyRole: text_match

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Pollination biology in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, with comparisons with montane Colorado, USA

1988Australian Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

other

An Artificial Key to the Aquatic Insects of Gunnison County, Colorado Streams above 2750 Elevation including chrironomid larvae from streams and ponds

1985Role: text_match

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Concentration of glucosinolates in relation to habitat and insect herbivory for the native crucifer Cardamine cordifolia

1983Biochemical Systematics and EcologyRole: text_match

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Aquatic insect predator-prey relations

1982BioScienceRole: predator

article

Determinants of diet of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in a mountain stream

1981Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic ScienceRole: text_match

article

Allometry and jumping in frogs: helping the twain to meet

1978EvolutionRole: text_match

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The distributional ecology and diversity of benthic insects in Cement Creek, Colorado

1975EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Habitat diversity study of the ground beetles and bugs at Gothic, Colorado (Coleoptera and Hemiptera)

1974Role: text_match

article

Distribution of the Carabidae (Coleoptera) of Boulder County, Colorado

1951American Midland NaturalistRole: text_match

student_paper

The affects [sic] of footpaths on Coleoptera community composition alpine meadow habitat

0Role: text_match

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technical report

Some Factors Historically Affecting The Distribution and Abundance of Fishes In The Gunnison River

water report

Coleoptera

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 76 entities)

Publications (126)

Exploring the Co-evolution of Burying Beetles and Their Phoretic Mites

INTERACTIONS BETWEEN INTERMEDIATE PREDATORS AND PREY IN SUBALPINE PONDS

Phenology of Insect Communities on an Elevational Gradient

Predation of Aphids (Aphis asclepiadis) by Syrphid Flies on Osha (Ligusticum porteri)

The Influence of Habitat and Parenting Style on the Reproductive Success of the Burying Beetle Nicrophorus investigator

Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild

Out of sight, out of mind: The role of carcass burial and maintenance in reducing competition in Nicrophorus investigator

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

Documents (12)

An Integrated Wastewater Treatment and Reuse System to Enhance Wildlife and Other Estuarine Values

Draft Environmental Statement Related to the Homestake Mining Company- Homestake Mining Company Pitch Project

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for Southwestern Willow Flycatcher

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Western Distinct Population Segment of the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Western Distinct Population Segment of the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Determination for the Gunnison Sage-grouse as a Threatened or Endangered Species

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Status for Gunnison Sage-Grouse

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Final Listing Determination for the Gunnison Sage-Grouse as Threatened or Endangered

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Threatened Status for Gunnison Sage-Grouse

Mount Emmons Aquatic Ecology Baseline Studies

Co-occurring Species

Beetles

Diptera

Lepidoptera

Hymenoptera

Hemiptera

Nicrophorus investigator

Trichoptera

Spiders

Odonata

Mayflies

Changes in insect population dynamics due to climate change

Coexistence in Burying Beetles: The Niche of Reproductive Temperatures

The Fate of Burying Beetles and their Carcasses: Hardships, Competition and Environmental Factors

Cross-trophic-level dynamics in aquatic ecosystems and their application across ecological contexts

Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America

Genetic mechanisms underlying maladaptation in specialized species interactions

How beaver pond age affects aquatic invertebrates

Looking through leftovers: an analysis of bee bowl bycatch

Sage-Grouse

Scientists’ warning on climate change and insects

Silviculture

The causes and consequences of pollen defence

Carry-over effects of larval food stress on adult energetics and life history in a nectar-feeding butterfly

Effects of Temperature on Voltinism in Subalpine Potter Wasps (Vespidae: Eumeninae)

Novel host unmasks heritable variation in plant preference within an insect population

The Evolution and Ecology of Interactions Between Ants and Honeydew-Producing Hemipteran Insects

Abundance and elevational range shifts of three species of burying beetle in Gunnison County, Colorado and importance of stridulation during reproduction in burying beetles

Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee <i> Halictus rubicundus </i> (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Energy Fluxes of Terrestrial and Aquatic Invertebrates in the East River

From Insects to Frogs, Egg–Juvenile Recruitment Can Have Persistent Effects on Population Sizes

Nanda-Hamner Curves Show Huge Latitudinal Variation but No Circadian Components in <i> Drosophila Montana </i> Photoperiodism

The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

Experience may outweigh cue similarity in maintaining a persistent host plant-based evolutionary trap.

Effects of pond permanence on avian behaviors

Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

Progressive sensitivity of trophic levels to warming underlies an elevational gradient in ant–aphid mutualism strength

Snowmelt affects aphid (<i>Aphis asclepladis</i>) populations through soil moisture and host plant phenology

Stoichiometry and infectious disease: Linking chemical elements and parasitic interactions

Stridulation in <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i> as a Possible Means of Cooperation during Carcass Sequestration

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

The persistent maladaptation of <i>Pieris macdunnoughii</i>: Constraints on adaptation to an evolutionary trap

Two-year bee or not two-year bee? How voltinism is affected by temperature and season length in a high-elevation solitary bee

Building up Biogeography: Pattern to Process

Changes of dispersal ability in an isolated population

Effects of Ant Presence on Nicrophorus investigatorâ€™s Reproductive Success

Nutrient excretion rates of common aquatic taxa in high elevation ponds at the Mexican Cut

Conflict of interest? Investigating the costs and benefits of herbivore defense using the model plant <i>Boechera stricta</i>

Multitrophic interactions mediate theÂ effects ofÂ climate change onÂ herbivore abundance

Native ant (<i>Formica rufa, Formica fusca</i>), <i>Nicrophorus spp.</i> interactions at small mammal carcass resources in the southern Rocky Mountains, Gunnison National Forest, Colorado.

Neighborhood Influence on Plant Interactions with Seed-Eating Flies and Pollinating Bees

Phenological shifts of native and invasive species under climate change: insights from the <i>Boechera Lythrum</i> model

Caddisfly behavioral responses to drying cues in temporary ponds: Implications for effects of climate change

Habitat Selection in Nicrophoryus investigator and defodiens.

Inferring Regional-Scale Species Diversity from Small-Plot Censuses

Investigating Herbivore Relationships to Boechera stricta in a Climate Change Context.

Roles of Stridulation in Nicophorus investigator.

Consequences of Pollination Neighborhood Composition and Pollinator Communities