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Determinants of upper-elevation range limits in cavity-nesting bees

Principal Investigator: Lydia Wong
Status: active
Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas: Climate change; Climate science; Community ecology; Insect biology; Phenology; Pollination
Items: 77 (57 publications, 18 datasets, 2 documents)

Publications (57)

Article

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

2025Global Change BiologyDOI: 10.1111/gcb.70289
Article

BASIN-3D: A brokering framework to integrate diverse environmental data

2022Computers & GeosciencesDOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2021.105024
Student Paper

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

2019
Student Paper

Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee <i>Hoplitis fulgida</i>

2017
Thesis

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

2019
Thesis

Phenological drivers and consequences for solitary bees

2024
Student Paper

Shifts in the altitudinal distribution of bumblebees near Gothic, Colorado

1998
Thesis

Bee foraging in space and time: linking individual behaviour to pollination

2014
Student Paper

Temporal Patterns in Foraging activity of Colorado Montane Bumblebees.

2014
Student Paper

Using abiotic factors to predict seasonal bee abundance.

2014
Article

Bumblebee foraging: the threshold departure rule

1985Ecology
Thesis

Resource partitioning and community structure: A study of bumblebees in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

1976
Student Paper

Cavity-nesting birds: observations, preferences, measurements

1985
Student Paper

Optimal foraging: a test in bumblebees

1982
Student Paper

Butterfly species composition by site

1991
Student Paper

Optimal prey size in dragonfly larvae (Odonata: Anisoptera: Libellulidae)

1991
Student Paper

Female choice in true bugs (Homoptera: Miridae)

1991
Student Paper

Effects of Bombus removals on Diptera Foraging Behaviors.

2014
Article

Factors affecting pollinator visitation rates: a biogeographic comparison

1993Current Science
Student Paper

Spatial distribution and nest site selection in a Colorado cavity-nesting bird community

2003
Student Paper

Foraging behavior in <i>Bombus</i> spp

1980
Article

Bumblebee foraging: energetic consequences of using a threshold departure rule

1985Ecology
Thesis

The role of fly pollination in montane habitats

1990
Student Paper

Specificity of pollinators in mountain meadows

1973
Student Paper

Foraging behavior of bumblebees (<i>Bombus</i> spp.)

1980
Student Paper

The dispersion of nectar resources as a result of bumblebee foraging

1983
Article

Behavior of inexperienced bumble bees toward spatial clumping of nectar

2007Entomologia Generalis
Article

Field measures of flower constancy in bumblebees

1981American Midland NaturalistDOI: 10.2307/2424756
Thesis

Nesting aggregation as a determinant of brood parasitism in mason bees (<i>Osmia</i> spp.)

2016
Article

Strategies of nesting in a high-altitude temperate hummingbird

1974Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
Student Paper

Bumblebee foraging behavior: the roles of floral scent and color

1994
Book

The natural history of bumblebees

2001
Article

Resource partitioning and per-flower foraging efficiency in two bumblebee species

1996American Midland Naturalist
Student Paper

Correlation of environmental parameters and insect abundance to bat foraging patterns

1995
Student Paper

Foraging behavior of bumblebees and hummingbirds

1982
Student Paper

Thermal reguation of bumblebees

1973
Student Paper

Effects of weather conditions on cliff swallow foraging

1993
Article

Resource partitioning in bumblebees

1977Journal of the New York Entomological Society
Student Paper

Flower constancy in bees: yes or no?

1982
Student Paper

Population relationships of bees and bee mimic flies

1973
Student Paper

Bumblebee foraging patterns on <i>Frasera speciosa</i> inflorescences or, a monumental approach to Gothic queens

1983
Student Paper

Foraging site preferences of rufous and broad-tailed hummingbirds

1994
Article

Skewed flowering distributions and bumblebees

1980American Midland Naturalist
Student Paper

Specialization and foraging ergonomics in a subalpine bumblebee <i>Bombus appositus</i> (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

1997
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
Article

Trapline foraging by bumble bees: III. Temporal patterning of visits

1998Behavioral Ecology
Chapter

Honey Bee Colony Health: Challenges and Sustainable Solutions

2011
Student Paper

Directional foraging in hummingbirds

1982
Student Paper

Resource utilization in bumblebees: a study of <i>Bombus oppositus</i> and <i>Bombus flavifrons</i>

1980
Article

Some energetic aspects of behavior in a montane hummingbird nesting habitat

1982National Geographic Society Research Reports

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Datasets (18)

Dataset

Osmia_iridis_summer_duration_expt_2014-15

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/2
Dataset

Osmia_iridis_2015_summer_incubator_expt

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/3
Dataset

Osmia_iridis_2016_summer_incubator_expt

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/4
Dataset

Osmia_iridis_development_by_DD_2015-16

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/5
Dataset

Yearly bee catch data

2015DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5385j/5
Dataset

Pollination neighborhood survey data

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

data for functional group analyses

2015DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5385j/3
Dataset

Ready for NMDS VOUCHERED BEES ONLY

2015DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5385j/4
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

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

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8psn
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.

2021DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3554139.v1
Dataset

Abundance richness and evenness data VOUCHERED BEES

2015DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5385j/1
Dataset

Temperature, floral density, and Osmia pollen usage data from seven study sites around the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Colorado: 2013-2022.

2023DOI: 10.6073/pasta/2992dc076d1c4568afbaa68dcbbaf7dc
Dataset

Data from: Variation in season length and development time is sufficient to drive the emergence and coexistence of social and solitary behavioral strategies

2024DOI: 10.5061/dryad.rjdfn2zmr
Dataset

Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t76hdr7zc
Dataset

Data from: Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology.

2017DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5400796
Dataset

An organizing feature of bumble bee life history: worker emergence promotes queen reproduction and survival in young nests

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.jdfn2z383
Dataset

Decomposing an elevational gradient in predation by insectivorous birds

2024DOI: 10.7280/d1cq5v