Long-term monitoring of bee-plant interactions

Principal Investigator: Paul CaraDonna

Status: active

Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology

Research Areas: Animal Behavior; Climate change; Community ecology; Food web biology; Insect biology; Long-term research; Modeling; Phenology; Plant biology; Pollination; Species Interactions

Long-term monitoring of bee-plant interactions

Publications (62)

Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators

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

Intraspecific body size variation across distributional moments reveals trait filtering processes

Ecological Drivers and Consequences of Bumble Bee Body Size Variation

The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators

Art/Science collaborations: new explorations of ecological systems, values, and their feedbacks

Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator interaction rewiring

Organization of a plant-pollinator community in a seasonal environment

Using abiotic factors to predict seasonal bee abundance.

Competition and cooperation in plant/pollinator systems

Insect ecology project

Intraspecific body size variation across distributional moments reveals trait filtering processes

Reproductive ecology of Erigeron speciosus, a montane perennial herb: Evidence of self-incompatibility

Sodium enriched nectar shapes plant–pollinator interactions in a subalpine meadow

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

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

Demographic Consequences of Phenological Shifts in Response to Climate Change

Temporal flexibility in the structure of plant–pollinator interaction networks

Contrasting effects of climate change on seasonal survival of a hibernating mammal.

Untangling the seasonal dynamics of plant-pollinator communities

Temporal scale-dependence of plant–pollinator networks

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

Reproductive losses due to climate change? Induced earlier flowering are not the primary threat to plant population viability in a perennial herb

Atypical flowers can be as profitable as typical hummingbird flowers

Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks

Frost sensitivity of leaves and flowers of subalpine plants is related to tissue type and phenology.

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

Phenological responses to climate change do not exhibit phylogenetic signal in a subalpine plant community

Asynchronous changes in phenology of migrating Broad-tailed Hummingbirds and their early season nectar resources

Microbial mediation of plant-pollinator interactions

Population relationships of bees and bee mimic flies

Specificity of pollinating butterflies

Diurnal patterns of insects on four different plant species

The dispersion of nectar resources as a result of bumblebee foraging

Cognitive ecology of pollination

Cognitive ecology of pollination

Flower constancy in bees: yes or no?

Effects of "nectar guides" on pollinator visitation and seed set

Cognitive Ecology of Pollination

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

The role of fly pollination in montane habitats

Specificity of pollinators in mountain meadows

Plant-pollinator interactions: from specialization to generalization

Variation of pollinator species at different times of day

An exploration of the effects of ant-aphid interaction on host plant growth

The natural history of bumblebees

Pollinator corridors

Techniques for Pollination Biologists

Foraging behavior of bumblebees and hummingbirds

Field measures of flower constancy in bumblebees

Datasets (27)

Osmia_iridis_summer_duration_expt_2014-15

Yearly bee catch data

Dispersal of pollen analogue by Valeriana edulis pollinators

Pollination neighborhood survey data

Long-term bee phenology and abundance data at the RMBL, Gothic, Colorado

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

Osmia_iridis_2015_summer_incubator_expt

Ready for NMDS VOUCHERED BEES ONLY

Osmia_iridis_2016_summer_incubator_expt

Global Bee Interaction Data

Osmia_iridis_development_by_DD_2015-16

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

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

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

Plant height and species information

Abundance richness and evenness data VOUCHERED BEES

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

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

Plant phenology, aphid colony growth, and honeydew deposition data

Global Bee Interaction Data

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

data for functional group analyses

Supplementary material from "Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators"

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

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

Data from: Quantifying direct vs. indirect effects of nectar robbers on male and female components of plant fitness

Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits