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Consequences of phenological shifts and pollination for plant populations

Principal Investigator: Amy Iler
Status: active
Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas: Climate change; Community ecology; Long-term research; Phenology; Plant biology; Pollination; Species Interactions
Items: 90 (67 publications, 22 datasets, 1 documents)

Publications (67)

Thesis

Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator interaction rewiring

2023
Thesis

Phenological drivers and consequences for solitary bees

2024
Thesis

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

2023
Student Paper

The effects of ungulate herbivory on phenology, pollination, and reproductive success in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

1999
Article

Does pollination interact with the abiotic environment to affect plant reproduction?

2025Annals of BotanyDOI: 10.1093/aob/mcae095
Article

Open-top warming chambers reduce animal pollination of two subalpine herbs

2021Journal of Pollination EcologyDOI: 10.26786/1920-7603(2021)638
Article

Snow melt timing acts independently and in conjunction with temperature accumulation to drive subalpine plant phenology

2021Global Change BiologyDOI: 10.1111/gcb.15803
Article

Detrending phenological time series improves climate-phenology analyses and reveals evidence of plasticity

2017EcologyDOI: 10.1002/ecy.1690
Thesis

Timing is everything: Phenological change and the implications for plants, pollinators and their interactions.

2015
Thesis

Competition for pollination and the evolution of flowering time

1977
Thesis

Organization of a plant-pollinator community in a seasonal environment

1984
Thesis

Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

2019
Publication

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

2011
Article

A phenological mid-domain effect in flowering diversity

2005Oecologia
Thesis

Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change

2022
Thesis

Causes and consequences of plant responses to environmental change over physiological, ecological, and evolutionary time.

2015
Thesis

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

2019
Student Paper

Reproductive efforts of plants along an altitudinal gradient

1973
Chapter

Plant-pollinator interactions: from specialization to generalization

2005
Thesis

Competition and cooperation in plant/pollinator systems

1978
Thesis

Effects of early snowmelt on plant phenophase timing and duration across an elevation gradient

2021
Chapter

Plant Reproductive Ecology: Patterns and Strategies

1988
Student Paper

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

2014
Thesis

The causes and consequences of pollen defence

2023
Thesis

Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

2019
Thesis

Potential impact of climate change on the phenology and reproduction of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i> (Ranunculaceae)

2000
Thesis

The role of fly pollination in montane habitats

1990
Chapter

Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

2025DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-75027-4_13
Article

Effects of spatial patterning of co-flowering plant species on pollination quantity and purity

2018Annals of Botany
Chapter

Cognitive Ecology of Pollination

2001
Chapter

Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction: New Approaches

1992
Book

Cognitive ecology of pollination

2001
Chapter

Cognitive ecology of pollination

2001
Thesis

Microbial mediation of plant-pollinator interactions

2014
Student Paper

Specificity of pollinators in mountain meadows

1973
Student Paper

Variation of pollinator species at different times of day

2001
Student Paper

Plant and insect diversity and abundance: resilience in response to human disturbance

1997
Thesis

The evolution of transitions between pollination modes in <i>Penstemon</i>

2003
Article

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

2024The Southwestern NaturalistDOI: 10.1894/0038-4909-68.1.13
Article

Does pollination interact with the abiotic environment to affect plant reproduction?

2024Annals of BotanyDOI: 10.1093/aob/mcae095
Article

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

2021OecologiaDOI: 10.1007/s00442-021-05036-0
Article

Lagged and dormant season climate better predict plant vital rates than climate during the growing season

2021Global Change BiologyDOI: 10.1111/gcb.15519
Article

Demographic Consequences of Phenological Shifts in Response to Climate Change

2021Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and SystematicsDOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011921-
Article

Can flowers affect land surface albedo and soil microclimates?

2021International Journal of BiometeorologyDOI: 10.1007/s00484-021-02159-0
Article

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

2019Journal of EcologyDOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13146
Article

The effect of demographic correlations on the stochastic population dynamics of perennial plants

2016Ecological MonographsDOI: 10.1002/ecm.1228
Article

Sex-specific responses to climate change in plants alter population sex ratios and performance.

2016ScienceDOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2588
Article

Nonlinear flowering responses to climate: are species approaching their limits of phenological change?

2013Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesDOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0489
Article

Long-term trends mask variation in the direction and magnitude of short-term phenological shifts

2013American Journal of BotanyDOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200490
Article

Effects of climate change on mast-flowering cues in a clonal montane herb, <i>Veratrum tenuipetalum</i> (Melanthiaceae)

2013American Journal of BotanyDOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200491

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Datasets (22)

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

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

2022DOI: 10.7280/D1D99J
Dataset

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

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s91p4
Dataset

Data from: Reproductive losses due to climate change-induced earlier flowering are not the primary threat to plant population viability in a perennial herb

2019DOI: 10.5061/dryad.863c8sk
Dataset

Flowering phenology in subalpine meadows: Does climate variation influence community co-flowering patterns?

2021DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3301874.v1
Dataset

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

2023DOI: 10.7280/D16D7Z
Dataset

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2021DOI: 10.7280/D19X0D
Dataset

Pre-dispersal seed predation obscures the detrimental effect of dust on wildflower reproduction - flowering and egg phenology

2023DOI: 10.6086/D18D7B
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

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

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.v4cv6
Dataset

Plant phenology, aphid colony growth, and honeydew deposition data

2023DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1ns1rn8xg
Dataset

Dispersal of pollen analogue by Valeriana edulis pollinators

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

Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t76hdr7zc
Dataset

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

2024DOI: 10.5061/dryad.j6q573npc
Dataset

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

2017DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b5h65
Dataset

Pollination neighborhood survey data

2016DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1cf8p/10
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: Sex-specific responses to climate change in plants alter population sex ratio and performance

2017DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1cf8p
Dataset

Osmia_iridis_summer_duration_expt_2014-15

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/2
Dataset

Long-term changes in flowering synchrony reflect climatic changes across an elevational gradient

2021DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5586297
Dataset

Plant height and species information

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

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

2025DOI: 10.5061/dryad.cc2fqz6g9