Effect of climate variability on bee phenology and abundance

Principal Investigator: Rebecca Irwin

Status: active

Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology

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

Effect of climate variability on bee phenology and abundance

Publications (118)

Phenological drivers and consequences for solitary bees

Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator interaction rewiring

Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems

Nectar addition changes pollinator behavior but not plant reproduction in pollen rewarding <i> Lupinus argenteus</i>

Support early-career field researchers

Effects of flowering plant density on pollinator visitation, pollen receipt, and seed production in <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i>

Ecology and evolution of plant-pollinator interactions

Mechanisms of tolerance to floral larceny in two animal-pollinated wildflowers, <i>Polemonium viscosum</i> and <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

Temporal and spatial variation in pollination of a montane herb: a seven-year study

Direct and indirect effects of pollinators and seed predators to selection on plant and floral traits

Linking pollinator visitation rate and pollen receipt

Variation in nectar robbing over time, space, and species

A trade-off between the frequency and duration of bumblebee visits to flowers

Using abiotic factors to predict seasonal bee abundance.

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

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

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

Effects of Bombus removals on Diptera Foraging Behaviors.

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

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

Flower constancy in bees: yes or no?

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

Thermal reguation of bumblebees

The influence of different types of disturbance on insect diversity

The dispersion of nectar resources as a result of bumblebee foraging

Temporal Patterns in Foraging activity of Colorado Montane Bumblebees.

Honey Bee Colony Health: Challenges and Sustainable Solutions

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

The effect of global warming on soil mesofauna

Variation of pollinator species at different times of day

Organization of a plant-pollinator community in a seasonal environment

Factors affecting pollinator visitation rates: a biogeographic comparison

Population relationships of bees and bee mimic flies

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

The hole truth: why do bumble bees rob flowers more than once?

Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

Skewness in bee and flower phenological distributions

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

Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

Plant removal across an elevational gradient marginally reduces rates, substantially reduces variation in mineralization

The sensory and cognitive ecology of nectar robbing

Bumble bees are constant to nectar-robbing behaviour despite low switching costs

Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy

Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees

Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

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

Why are some plant-nectar robber interactions commensalisms?

Costs and benefits of alternative food handling tactics help explain facultative exploitation of pollination mutualisms

Direct and indirect effects of episodic frost on plants growth and reproduction in subalpine wildflowers

Datasets (27)

Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

Osmia_iridis_summer_duration_expt_2014-15

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

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.

Yearly bee catch data

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

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

Osmia_iridis_2015_summer_incubator_expt

Plant phenology, aphid colony growth, and honeydew deposition data

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

Osmia_iridis_development_by_DD_2015-16

Osmia_iridis_2016_summer_incubator_expt

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

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

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

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

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

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

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

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

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

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

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

Malaise_trap_ReadME.txt

Malaise_trap_ReadME.txt

Abundance richness and evenness data VOUCHERED BEES

Supplementary material from "Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators"