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Bumble bee thermal tolerance, climate variation, and population trends

Principal Investigator: Jacquelyn Fitzgerald
Status: active
Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas: Climate change; Insect biology; Pollination
Items: 74 (53 publications, 20 datasets, 1 documents)

Publications (53)

Article

Intraspecific body size variation across distributional moments reveals trait filtering processes

2025Journal of Animal EcologyDOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.14186
Article

Ecological Drivers and Consequences of Bumble Bee Body Size Variation

2022Environmental Entomology DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvac093
Student Paper

Characterization of thermal tolerance in sub-alpine bumblebee species

2023
Student Paper

Thermal reguation of bumblebees

1973
Student Paper

Using abiotic factors to predict seasonal bee abundance.

2014
Thesis

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

2019
Book

The natural history of bumblebees

2001
Student Paper

Population relationships of bees and bee mimic flies

1973
Student Paper

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

1980
Student Paper

Effects of Bombus removals on Diptera Foraging Behaviors.

2014
Student Paper

Temporal Patterns in Foraging activity of Colorado Montane Bumblebees.

2014
Student Paper

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

1980
Student Paper

Shifts in the altitudinal distribution of bumblebees near Gothic, Colorado

1998
Student Paper

The dispersion of nectar resources as a result of bumblebee foraging

1983
Thesis

Phenological drivers and consequences for solitary bees

2024
Student Paper

Global Climate Change Induced Shifts in Water Availability Alter Pollinator Visitation.

2014
Student Paper

Tracking changes in montane butterfly populations through the lens of climate change

2023
Student Paper

Foraging behavior of bumblebees and hummingbirds

1982
Student Paper

Flower constancy in bees: yes or no?

1982
Chapter

Honey Bee Colony Health: Challenges and Sustainable Solutions

2011
Student Paper

Bumblebee foraging behavior: the roles of floral scent and color

1994
Article

Intraspecific body size variation across distributional moments reveals trait filtering processes

2024Journal of Animal EcologyDOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.14186
Article

Field measures of flower constancy in bumblebees

1981American Midland NaturalistDOI: 10.2307/2424756
Student Paper

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

2023
Student Paper

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

1980
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
Thesis

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

2014
Article

Skewed flowering distributions and bumblebees

1980American Midland Naturalist
Student Paper

The effect of global warming on soil mesofauna

1992
Publication

Effects of frost on wildflowers: an unexpected consequence of climate change

2011
Thesis

The Thermal Ecology of the Larvae fo <i>Colias</i> Butterflies

1971
Student Paper

Constancy of bumblebees

1982
Student Paper

Variation of pollinator species at different times of day

2001
Thesis

Predicting climate-induced shifts in burying beetle distributions: integrating niche partitioning, competition, and thermal performance

2010
Thesis

Organization of a plant-pollinator community in a seasonal environment

1984
Student Paper

The influence of different types of disturbance on insect diversity

1995
Article

Factors affecting pollinator visitation rates: a biogeographic comparison

1993Current Science
Student Paper

Optimal foraging: a test in bumblebees

1982
Student Paper

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

1983
Chapter

Global Warming and Biodiversity

1992
Thesis

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

1976
Student Paper

Specificity of pollinating butterflies

1973
Article

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

1996American Midland Naturalist
Student Paper

Specificity of pollinators in mountain meadows

1973
Student Paper

The effects of patterns of flower coloration on insect variation

1991
Thesis

Effects of microclimate, dispersal, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on demography

2023
Student Paper

The influences on daily torpor during the summer

1986
Thesis

Insights into butterfly ecology and evolution

2009
Article

Bumblebee foraging: the threshold departure rule

1985Ecology
Article

Behavior of inexperienced bumble bees toward spatial clumping of nectar

2007Entomologia Generalis

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Datasets (20)

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

Yearly bee catch data

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

Osmia_iridis_development_by_DD_2015-16

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/5
Dataset

Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t76hdr7zc
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

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

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: Experimental species removals impact the architecture of pollination networks

2017DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b5h65
Dataset

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

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8psn
Dataset

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

2023DOI: 10.7280/D16D7Z
Dataset

Pollination neighborhood survey data

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

Abundance richness and evenness data VOUCHERED BEES

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

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

2016DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5385j
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: Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees

2025DOI: 10.5061/dryad.cc2fqz6g9
Dataset

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

2019DOI: 10.5061/dryad.kd1r166
Dataset

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2021DOI: 10.7280/D19X0D