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solitary bees

Common names: solitary bees

Taxonomy: Animalia > Insecta > Hymenoptera

Roles: study subject

Synonyms: bees

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 150 | Mentions: 159

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 76 entities)

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Publications (150)

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Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees

2025OikosRole: text_match

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Foraging preferences of generalist Megachilidae

2025Role: text_match

student_paper

Functional morphology of pollen capture in Syrphid flies (Diptera syrphidae): The effects of pile density and body region

2025Role: text_match

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Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators

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

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Predicting the contribution of single trait evolution to rescuing a plant population from demographic impacts of climate change

2025Evolution LettersRole: text_match

student_paper

Reproductive ecology and pollination biology of Geum triflorum (prairie smoke)

2025Role: text_match

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Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

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

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Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition

Co-occurring Species

2025Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

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

2025Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Impact of Decreased Flower Attractiveness on Pollinator Visitation Rates and Pollinator Community Composition

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

Nowhere to go but Up: Investigating Bumble Bee population Shifts over Elevational Gradients

2024Role: text_match

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Phenological drivers and consequences for solitary bees

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

Plant-Pollinator Interactions between Erigeron speciosus and Heterotheca villosa in Virginia Basin

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

The effects of elevation on flower abundance and pollinator visits on Helianthella quinquenervis

2024Role: text_match

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Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

2023Proceedings of the Royal Society BRole: text_match

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Differences in individual flowering time change pollen limitation and seed set in three montane wildflowers

2023American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Elevation Does Not Predict Density Dependent Population Dynamics in Valeriana edulis

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

Hot and Cold: Assessing the Thermal Limitations of Bumble Bees in a Changing Climate

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

How season length and diet breadth limit mason bee success across an elevational gradient

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

Looking through leftovers: an analysis of bee bowl bycatch

2023Role: text_match

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The causes and consequences of pollen defence

2023Role: text_match

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Bumble bee queen plasticity and social regulation of traits

2022Role: text_match

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Climate change and phenology

2022WIREs Climate ChangeRole: text_match

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Comparison of Bee Bowls and Netting for Monitoring Native Bees

2022Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Floral Abundance, Pollinator Interactions, and Floral Morphology on Stigmatic Pollen Deposition

2022Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2022Role: text_match

student_paper

How understory bee communities compare to open meadows in the Rocky Mountains

2022Role: text_match

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Legume germination is delayed in dry soils and in sterile soils devoid of microbial mutualists: Species-specific implications for upward range expansions

2022Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

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Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

2022Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

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Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change

2022Role: text_match

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Removing flowers of a generalist plant changes pollinator visitation, composition, and interaction network structure

2022EcosphereRole: text_match

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Simultaneous niche expansion and contraction in plant–pollinator networks under drought

2022OikosRole: text_match

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Sweet and salty: Pollinators and sodium-enriched nectar

2022Role: text_match

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Tritrophic mutualisms in a changing climate

2022Role: text_match

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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

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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

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Comparing pollen distribution on pollinators to floral community composition in the East River Valley

2021Role: study subject

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Demographic Consequences of Phenological Shifts in Response to Climate Change

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

student_paper

Effects of Climate Variation and Nesting Traits on Sex Ratios of Adult Solitary Bees

2021Role: text_match

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Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

2021Frontiers of Ecology & EvolutionRole: text_match

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From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

2021Climate Change EcologyRole: text_match

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Global Warming, Advancing Bloom and Evidence for Pollinator Plasticity from Long-Term Bee Emergence Monitoring

2021InsectsRole: text_match

student_paper

Impacts of brood parasites, floral abundance, and bee age on maternal investment in a solitary bee, Osmia iridis

2021Role: text_match

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Open-top warming chambers reduce animal pollination of two subalpine herbs

2021Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match

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Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations

2021OecologiaRole: text_match

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The Effect of Climate Change on Two Primitively Eusocial Bees

2021Role: text_match

student_paper

The effect of early snowmelt on pollination: A study of four Rocky Mountain subalpine plant species

2021Role: text_match

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The sensory and cognitive ecology of nectar robbing

2021Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

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Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

2021OecologiaRole: text_match

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Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant

2021Biological Invasions doi 10.1007/s10530-021-02457-zRole: text_match

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Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

2020Ecology LettersRole: text_match

student_paper

Climate Change and Parasitism: An Investigation into Parasitic Bees' Climate Responses as Compared to their Hosts

2020Role: text_match

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Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

2020Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesRole: text_match

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Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2020American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Adaptation and diversification of bluebells Mertensia spp., Boranginaceae

2019Role: text_match

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Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of weather and floral density on foraging activity of cavity nesting bees ( Osmia spp.)

2019Role: text_match

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

2019Role: text_match

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Invasive plants and water availablity mediate outcomes of plant-pollinator interactions

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Niche breadth changes in response to environmental perturbation: the impact of early snowmelt on subalpine plant-pollinator specialization

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Observing pollinator trait variation in relation to niche breadth in seasons of high and low precipitation

2019Role: text_match

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Parasitism modifies the direct effects of warming on a hemiparasite and its host

2019PLOS ONERole: text_match

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Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

2019American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Pollinator Community Compositions Across Four Subalpine Plant Species

2019Role: text_match

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The effect of 10 years of repeat lethal sampling on wild bee abundance

2019Role: text_match

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The effect of nutrient availability on floral display and pollinator interactions

2019Role: text_match

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The function of floral orientation in bluebells: interactions with pollinators and rain in two species of Mertensia (Boraginaceae)

2019Journal of Plant EcologyRole: text_match

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The individual and combined effects of snowmelt timing and frost exposure on the reproductive success of montane forbs

2019Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

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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

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Comparing Plant-Pollinator Network Structure between Drought and Non-Drought Years

2018Role: text_match

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Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

2018Role: text_match

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Evaluating Critical Thermal Tolerances of Solitary Bees

2018Role: text_match

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Examining the impact of pollen diet composition on bee development and lifespan

2018Role: text_match

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Nesting Preferences of Osmia Bees in the Rocky Mountains

2018Role: text_match

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Nesting aggregation as a predictor of brood parasitism in mason bees (Osmia spp.)

2018Ecological EntemologyRole: text_match

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The effect of surrounding bloom color on pan trap success in sampling Rocky Mountain bees

2018Role: text_match

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40 years of progress in pollination biology, and what it means for citizen scientists

2017Aquilegia: Newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant SocietyRole: text_match

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

2017EcologyRole: text_match

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Interactions between bee foraging and floral resource phenology shape bee populations and communities

2017Current Opinion in Insect ScienceRole: text_match

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Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology

2017Ecology LettersRole: text_match

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Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

2017Role: text_match

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Plant-pollinator interactions under climate change: the use of spatial and temporal transplants

2017Applications in Plant SciencesRole: text_match

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Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee Hoplitis fulgida

2017Role: text_match

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Shifts in water availability mediate plantâ€“pollinator interactions

2017New PhytologistRole: text_match

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The Effects of Early Snow-melt on the Pollination and Seed Production of Delphinium nuttallianum

2017Role: text_match

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Variability in the effectiveness of Penstemon strictus pollinators and the role that water availability plays

2017Role: text_match

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Assessing pollinatorsâ€™ contribution to the reproductive success of Mertensia ciliata

2016Role: text_match

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Asteraceae pollen provisions protect Osmia mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from brood parasitism

2016American NaturalistRole: text_match

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Do bees show response diversity to environmental variables in a montane ecosystem?

2016Role: text_match

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Use of Low Quality Pollen by Asteraceae-Specialist Osmia Mason Bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

2016Role: text_match

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An altitudinal cline in UV floral pattern corresponds with a behavioral change of a generalist pollinator assemblage

2015EcologyRole: text_match

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The effect of repeated, lethal sampling on wild bee abundance and diversity

2015Methods in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

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The evolutionary ecology of ultraviolet floral pigmentation

2015Role: text_match

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Associational effects of E. speciosus and E. elatior on their pollinators and seed predators.

2014Role: text_match

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Asteraceae pollen specialization affects vulnerability to brood parasitism in mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae).

2014Role: text_match

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Consequences of Pollination Neighborhood Composition and Pollinator Communities

2014Role: text_match

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Direct and indirect effects of frost on growth and plant-pollinator interactions in Delphinium nuttallianum.

2014Role: text_match

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Nectar Yeasts in the Tall Larkspur Delphinium barbeyi (Ranunculaceae) and Effects on Components of Pollinator Foraging Behavior

2014PloS oneRole: text_match

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Selection of trait combinations through bee and fly visitation to flowers of Polemonium foliosissimum

2014Journal of Evolutionary BiologyRole: text_match

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Dose-dependent effects of nectar alkaloids in a montane plant-pollinator community

2013Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

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How does altered phenology affect pollination and reproduction of Delphinium nuttallianum?

2013Role: text_match

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Maintenance of temporal synchrony between syrphid flies and floral resources despite differential phenological responses to climate

2013Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

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Norditerpene alkaloid concentrations in tissues and floral rewards of larkspurs and impacts on pollinators

2013Biochemical Systematics and EcologyRole: text_match

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Spatial variation in bee abundance and diversity across southern Rocky Mountain habitats

2013Role: text_match

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The effects of road dust on pollination and reproduction of the native wildflower species, Delphinium nuttallianum

2013Role: text_match

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The influence of aboveground and belowground resources on the persistence of females for a gynodioecious plant

2013Role: text_match

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Assessing the impacts of long-term pan trapping on native bee populations in sub-alpine ecosystems

2012Role: text_match

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Investigating the impact of pollinator- and seed predator-mediated selection on floral traits in an Ipomopsis aggregata and I. tenuituba (Polemoniaceae) hybrid zone

2012Role: text_match

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Single-visit pollination efficacy of psithyrus insularism and megachile on chamerion augustifolium

2012Role: text_match

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The effects of floral traits on the behaviors of pollinators and pre-dispersal seed predators in a gynodioecious species, Polemonium foliosissimum.

2012Role: text_match

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There's no place like home: Investigating the ideal nesting requirements of Megachilidae bees in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

2012Role: text_match

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An examination of synchrony between insect emergence and flowering in Rocky Mountain meadows

2011Ecological MonographsRole: text_match

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

2011Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

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Emergence of a mid-season period of low floral resources in a montane meadow ecosystem associated with climate change

2011Journal of 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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Seasonal change in a pollinator community and the maintenance of style length variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)

2011Annals of BotanyRole: text_match

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The effects of floral fragrance manipulations of Ipomopsis aggregata on the seed predator Hylemya

2011Role: text_match

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

2010Role: text_match

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Bee sampling has no effect on bee abundance in montane meadows

2010Role: text_match

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Beyond biomass: measuring the effects of community-level nitrogen enrichment on floral traits, pollinator visitation and plant reproduction

2010J of EcologyRole: text_match

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Consequences of variation in flowering time within and among individuals of Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae), an early spring wildflower

2010Amer J of BotanyRole: text_match

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Effects of multi-species interactions in gynodioecious populations of Polemonium foliosissimum

2010Role: text_match

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Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: text_match

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The effects of phenological mismatches on demography

2010Phil Trans Royal Society BRole: text_match

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Does stigma-anther separation prevent sexual interference in dwarf bluebells (Mertensia fusiformis)?

2009Role: text_match

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Is there a positive correlation between bee size and size parameters of the flowers the bees visit for pollen to provision their nests?

2009Role: text_match

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Nectar sugar limits larval growth of solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

2009Environmental EntomologyRole: text_match

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The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

2009Role: text_match

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The relationships among butterfly size, visitation rate, handling time, and floral display size

2009Role: text_match

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Variation in the structure and dynamics of bee assemblages across distinct montane meadows

2009Role: text_match

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Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

2008Role: text_match

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Effect of Soil Metals on Pollination of Subalpine Wildflowers

2008Role: text_match

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Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match

student_paper

Pollination subsidies between wetland and dry meadow habitats

2007Role: text_match

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Predicting the effects of nectar robbing on plant reproduction: implications of pollen limitation and plant mating system

2007American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Are native bees picky enough? The effect of an invasive plant, Linaria vulgaris, on the foraging of native bee pollinators

2006Role: text_match

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Impact of insect pollinator group and floral display size on outcrossing rate

2006EvolutionRole: text_match

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Self-sterility in Ipomopsis aggregata (Polemoniaceae) is due to prezygotic ovule degeneration

2006American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

The Effects of Soil Nitrogen Availability on Plant Reproduction and Solitary Bee Behavior

2006Role: text_match

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Temporal and spatial variation in pollination of a montane herb: a seven-year study

2005EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Cardamine cordifolia Pollination effects on seed and fruit production

2004Role: text_match

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Environmental influences on the phenology and abundance of flowering by Androsace septentrionalis (Primulaceae)

2003American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Predicting patterns of mating and potential hybridization from pollinator behavior

2002American NaturalistRole: text_match

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Effects of Local Density on Pollination and Reproduction in Delphinium nuttallianum and Aconitum columbianum (Ranunculaceae)

1999American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Generalization in pollination systems, and why it matters

1996EcologyRole: text_match

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Solitary behavior in a high-altitude population of the social sweat bee Halictus rubicundus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

1996Behav Ecol SociobiolRole: text_match

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Anthophilous fly distribution across an elevation gradient

1992American Midland NaturalistRole: text_match

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Floral morphology and cross-pollination in Erythronium grandiflorum (Liliaceae)

1985American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Pollen and gene dispersal: the influences of competition for pollination

1985EvolutionRole: text_match

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Local Knowledge Graph (Top 76 entities)

Publications (150)

Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees

Foraging preferences of generalist Megachilidae

Functional morphology of pollen capture in Syrphid flies (Diptera syrphidae): The effects of pile density and body region

Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators

Predicting the contribution of single trait evolution to rescuing a plant population from demographic impacts of climate change

Reproductive ecology and pollination biology of Geum triflorum (prairie smoke)

Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition

Co-occurring Species

Andrena

Halictus virgatellus

Megachile

Andrenidae

Osmia

Two-form Bumble Bee

Bumble Bees

Buff-tailed Bumble Bee

Golden-belted Bumble Bee

Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee

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

Impact of Decreased Flower Attractiveness on Pollinator Visitation Rates and Pollinator Community Composition

Nowhere to go but Up: Investigating Bumble Bee population Shifts over Elevational Gradients

Phenological drivers and consequences for solitary bees

Plant-Pollinator Interactions between Erigeron speciosus and Heterotheca villosa in Virginia Basin

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

The effects of elevation on flower abundance and pollinator visits on Helianthella quinquenervis

Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

Differences in individual flowering time change pollen limitation and seed set in three montane wildflowers

Elevation Does Not Predict Density Dependent Population Dynamics in Valeriana edulis

Hot and Cold: Assessing the Thermal Limitations of Bumble Bees in a Changing Climate

How season length and diet breadth limit mason bee success across an elevational gradient

Looking through leftovers: an analysis of bee bowl bycatch

The causes and consequences of pollen defence

Bumble bee queen plasticity and social regulation of traits

Climate change and phenology

Comparison of Bee Bowls and Netting for Monitoring Native Bees

Effects of Floral Abundance, Pollinator Interactions, and Floral Morphology on Stigmatic Pollen Deposition

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

How understory bee communities compare to open meadows in the Rocky Mountains

Legume germination is delayed in dry soils and in sterile soils devoid of microbial mutualists: Species-specific implications for upward range expansions

Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change

Removing flowers of a generalist plant changes pollinator visitation, composition, and interaction network structure

Simultaneous niche expansion and contraction in plant–pollinator networks under drought

Sweet and salty: Pollinators and sodium-enriched nectar

Tritrophic mutualisms in a changing climate

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

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

Comparing pollen distribution on pollinators to floral community composition in the East River Valley

Demographic Consequences of Phenological Shifts in Response to Climate Change

Effects of Climate Variation and Nesting Traits on Sex Ratios of Adult Solitary Bees

Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

Global Warming, Advancing Bloom and Evidence for Pollinator Plasticity from Long-Term Bee Emergence Monitoring

Impacts of brood parasites, floral abundance, and bee age on maternal investment in a solitary bee, <i> Osmia iridis </i>

Open-top warming chambers reduce animal pollination of two subalpine herbs

Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations

The Effect of Climate Change on Two Primitively Eusocial Bees

The effect of early snowmelt on pollination: A study of four Rocky Mountain subalpine plant species

The sensory and cognitive ecology of nectar robbing

Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant

Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

Climate Change and Parasitism: An Investigation into Parasitic Bees' Climate Responses as Compared to their Hosts

Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

Adaptation and diversification of bluebells <i>Mertensia</i> spp., Boranginaceae

Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

Effects of weather and floral density on foraging activity of cavity nesting bees (<i> Osmia </i>spp.)

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

Invasive plants and water availablity mediate outcomes of plant-pollinator interactions

Niche breadth changes in response to environmental perturbation: the impact of early snowmelt on subalpine plant-pollinator specialization

Observing pollinator trait variation in relation to niche breadth in seasons of high and low precipitation

Parasitism modifies the direct effects of warming on a hemiparasite and its host

Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

Pollinator Community Compositions Across Four Subalpine Plant Species

The effect of 10 years of repeat lethal sampling on wild bee abundance