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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.

2016Ecology Letters
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Organization of a plant-pollinator community in a seasonal environment

1984
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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

1998Annual 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

1955ScienceDOI: 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

1996Bulletin of the Geobotanical Institute ETH
Article

Bears benefit plants via a cascade with both antagonistic and mutualistic interactions

2015Ecology 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

1998Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and SystematicsDOI: 10.1078/1433-8319-00056
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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

1981Oecologia
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

2018Annals of Botany
Article

Effective mutualism between sequentially flowering plant species

1979NatureDOI: 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

1994Trends in Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 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

2002OecologiaDOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0900-1

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Datasets (14)

Dataset

Data for Context-dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients, 2014, 2016, Colorado, USA

2020DOI: 10.6073/pasta/953d0af267ddb6a0ddb970bff3218a61
Dataset

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

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s91p4
Dataset

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

2017DOI: 10.5061/dryad.tf71f
Dataset

Data from: Linking microenvironment modification to species interactions and demography in an alpine plant community

2023DOI: 10.6078/D1342B
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: 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: Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant

2023DOI: 10.7280/D1JM40
Dataset

Data from: Microenvironment and functional-trait context dependence predict alpine plant community dynamics

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.33410
Dataset

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

2021DOI: 10.7280/D1KM49
Dataset

Data from: Comparative impacts of long-term trends in snowmelt and species interactions on plant population dynamics

2022DOI: 10.7280/D1D99J
Dataset

Plant height and species information

2017DOI: 10.5061/dryad.772h7/2
Dataset

Ecological causes and consequences of flower color polymorphism in a self-pollinating plant (Boechera stricta)

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.q0032
Dataset

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

2019DOI: 10.5061/dryad.586f011