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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

2014PloS 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.

2004Ecology
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

1998Annual 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

1993Current 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

2018Annals 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

1994Trends in Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(94)90154-6
Article

Variation in nectar robbing over time, space, and species

2002OecologiaDOI: 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?

2001Conservation Ecology
Thesis

Competition for pollination and the evolution of flowering time

1977
Article

Specialization, pollination syndromes, and the evolution of floral diversity

2004Annual 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.

2016Ecology Letters
Article

The effects of nonsugar nectar constituents on estimates of nectar energy content

1980EcologyDOI: 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

2015Fungal Ecology
Article

Yeasts in nectar enhance male fitness in a montane perennial herb

2014EcologyDOI: 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

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Datasets (21)

Dataset

Data from: Foraging efficiency and size matching in a plant – pollinator community: the importance of sugar content and tongue length

2020DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2s74q4
Dataset

Data from: Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness consequences for plants

2017DOI: 10.5061/dryad.tf71f
Dataset

Pollinator visitation on Na-enriched plants in a subalpine meadow

2023DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7h44j1018
Dataset

Supplementary material from "Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators"

2025DOI: 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

2016DOI: 10.5061/dryad.p33fm
Dataset

Data from: Experimental species removals impact the architecture of pollination networks

2017DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b5h65
Dataset

Data from: Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s91p4
Dataset

Dispersal of pollen analogue by Valeriana edulis pollinators

2016DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1cf8p/8
Dataset

Global Bee Interaction Data

2025DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14624975
Dataset

Impacts of beekeeping on wild bee diversity and pollination networks in the Aegean Archipelago

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8psn
Dataset

Data from: Flying by night: Comparing nocturnal pollinator networks over time in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2024DOI: 10.5061/dryad.j6q573npc
Dataset

Pollination neighborhood survey data

2016DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1cf8p/10
Dataset

Global Bee Interaction Data

2024DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12639658
Dataset

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2021DOI: 10.7280/D19X0D
Dataset

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

2016DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4sd09
Dataset

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

2023DOI: 10.7280/D1JM40
Dataset

Experimental test of the combined effects of water availability and flowering time on pollinator visitation and seed set

2023DOI: 10.7280/D16D7Z
Dataset

Data from: Selection of floral traits by pollinators and seed predators during sequential life history stages

2021DOI: 10.7280/D1KM49
Dataset

Data from: Attract or defend? Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

2019DOI: 10.5061/dryad.586f011
Dataset

Data from: Influence of plant reproductive systems on the evolution of hummingbird pollination

2025DOI: 10.5061/dryad.bnzs7h4cj
Dataset

Data from: Context-dependent reproductive isolation mediated by floral scent and color

2014DOI: 10.5061/dryad.650sb