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Effects of microclimate heterogeneity on plant-pollinator interactions

Principal Investigator: Melanie Kazenel
Status: active
Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas: Climate change; Community ecology; Insect biology; Landscape biology; Phenology; Plant biology; Pollination; Species Interactions
Items: 92 (60 publications, 31 datasets, 1 documents)

Publications (60)

Thesis

Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator interaction rewiring

2023
Article

Warming disrupts plant–fungal endophyte symbiosis more severely in leaves than roots

2025Global Change BiologyDOI: 10.1111/gcb.70207
Article

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

2022Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesDOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2697
Article

Altitudinal gradients fail to predict fungal symbiont responses to warming

2019EcologyDOI: 10.1002/ecy.2740
Article

Plant Identity Influences Foliar Fungal Symbionts More Than Elevation in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2019Microbial EcologyDOI: 10.1007/s00248-019-01336-4
Article

Context dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients

2019Ecography
Student Paper

Can fungal symbionts shift host niche dimensions to promote species coexistence?

2013
Thesis

Organization of a plant-pollinator community in a seasonal environment

1984
Thesis

Microbial mediation of plant-pollinator interactions

2014
Thesis

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

2019
Chapter

Plant-pollinator interactions: from specialization to generalization

2005
Thesis

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

2022
Thesis

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

2015
Article

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

2018Annals of Botany
Thesis

Competition and cooperation in plant/pollinator systems

1978
Student Paper

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

2014
Thesis

The role of fly pollination in montane habitats

1990
Article

Factors affecting pollinator visitation rates: a biogeographic comparison

1993Current Science
Student Paper

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

1991
Student Paper

Specificity of pollinators in mountain meadows

1973
Thesis

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

2023
Chapter

Cognitive Ecology of Pollination

2001
Book

Cognitive ecology of pollination

2001
Chapter

Cognitive ecology of pollination

2001
Publication

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

2011
Thesis

Competition for pollination and the evolution of flowering time

1977
Student Paper

The influence of different types of disturbance on insect diversity

1995
Student Paper

Linking pollinator behavior and pollen receipt in Ipomopsis aggregata

2001
Article

Endangered mutualisms: the conservaiton of plant-pollinator interactions

1998Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
Student Paper

Natural variation in pollinator composition and services: effects on the reproductive success of <i></i>Ipomopsis aggregata<i></i>

1997
Student Paper

Variation of pollinator species at different times of day

2001
Article

A phenological mid-domain effect in flowering diversity

2005Oecologia
Thesis

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

2014
Student Paper

The effects of patterns of flower coloration on insect variation

1991
Student Paper

The effects of floral morphology on interspecific pollen transfer in <i>Ipomopsis</i>

1991
Thesis

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

2019
Student Paper

Influence of host plant height and distribution on herbivory patterns

1984
Student Paper

Using abiotic factors to predict seasonal bee abundance.

2014
Publication

Climate-ecosystem interactions in montane meadows

2002
Article

Skewed flowering distributions and bumblebees

1980American Midland Naturalist
Chapter

Effects of Resource Distribution on Animal-Plant Interactions

1992
Student Paper

Specificity of pollinating butterflies

1973
Student Paper

Comparing pollen presentation in bee and hummingbird pollinated penstemons

2003
Thesis

Effect of competition for pollination on the ecology and evolution of a hummingbird-pollinated plant, <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

1999
Student Paper

Nectar reward and pollinator specificity

1983
Article

Connecting pollination deficits and pollinator declines: can theory guide us?

2001Conservation Ecology
Student Paper

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

1997
Student Paper

Reproductive efforts of plants along an altitudinal gradient

1973
Article

Does a foliar endophyte improve plant fitness under flooding?

2017Plant EcologyDOI: 10.1007/s11258-017-0723-0
Article

Biogeography of plant-associated fungal symbionts in mountain ecosystems: A meta-analysis

2017Diversity and DistributionsDOI: 10.1111/ddi.12595

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Datasets (31)

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

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

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s91p4
Dataset

Pollination neighborhood survey data

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

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

2023DOI: 10.6086/D18D7B
Dataset

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

2017DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b5h65
Dataset

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

2023DOI: 10.7280/D16D7Z
Dataset

Data from: Linking microenvironment modification to species interactions and demography in an alpine plant community

2023DOI: 10.6078/D1342B
Dataset

Plant phenology, aphid colony growth, and honeydew deposition data

2023DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1ns1rn8xg
Dataset

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

2022DOI: 10.7280/D1D99J
Dataset

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2021DOI: 10.7280/D19X0D
Dataset

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

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8psn
Dataset

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

2024DOI: 10.5061/dryad.j6q573npc
Dataset

Osmia_iridis_summer_duration_expt_2014-15

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/2
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

Dispersal of pollen analogue by Valeriana edulis pollinators

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

Data from: Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness consequences for plants

2017DOI: 10.5061/dryad.tf71f
Dataset

Pollinator visitation on Na-enriched plants in a subalpine meadow

2023DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7h44j1018
Dataset

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

2016DOI: 10.5061/dryad.p33fm
Dataset

Data for Context-dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients, 2014, 2016, Colorado, USA

2020DOI: 10.6073/pasta/953d0af267ddb6a0ddb970bff3218a61
Dataset

Supplementary material from "Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators"

2025DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7948797
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

Osmia_iridis_2015_summer_incubator_expt

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/3
Dataset

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

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

Osmia_iridis_2016_summer_incubator_expt

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/4
Dataset

Ecological causes and consequences of flower color polymorphism in a self-pollinating plant (Boechera stricta)

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.q0032
Dataset

Data for: Pollinator and habitat-mediated selection as potential contributors to ecological speciation in two closely related species

2023DOI: 10.5061/dryad.79cnp5j2r
Dataset

Data from: Selection of floral traits by pollinators and seed predators during sequential life history stages

2021DOI: 10.7280/D1KM49
Dataset

Data from: Microenvironment and functional-trait context dependence predict alpine plant community dynamics

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.33410
Dataset

Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t76hdr7zc
Dataset

Data from: Disentangling the relative importance of species occurrence, abundance and intraspecific variability in community assembly: a trait-based approach at the whole-plant level in Mediterranean forests

2015DOI: 10.5061/dryad.dr275.2