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Tracking Bumble Bee Movement Patterns in Subalpine Meadows

Principal Investigator: Gwen Kirschke
Status: active
Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas: Animal Behavior; Community ecology; Insect biology; Landscape biology; Pollination
Items: 79 (52 publications, 17 datasets, 10 documents)

Publications (52)

Student Paper

Quantifying Nectar Trait Responses to Natural Variation in Water Availability in Subalpine Plant Communities

2020
Student Paper

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

2019
Student Paper

Temporal Patterns in Foraging activity of Colorado Montane Bumblebees.

2014
Student Paper

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

1980
Student Paper

Specificity of pollinators in mountain meadows

1973
Thesis

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

2014
Student Paper

Shifts in the altitudinal distribution of bumblebees near Gothic, Colorado

1998
Book

The natural history of bumblebees

2001
Student Paper

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

1980
Student Paper

Montane grassland butterflies: a survey of nectar feeding rates

1988
Article

Field measures of flower constancy in bumblebees

1981American Midland NaturalistDOI: 10.2307/2424756
Student Paper

Foraging behavior of bumblebees and hummingbirds

1982
Student Paper

The dispersion of nectar resources as a result of bumblebee foraging

1983
Student Paper

Specialization and foraging ergonomics in a subalpine bumblebee <i>Bombus appositus</i> (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

1997
Student Paper

Effects of Bombus removals on Diptera Foraging Behaviors.

2014
Thesis

The role of fly pollination in montane habitats

1990
Student Paper

Bumblebee foraging behavior: the roles of floral scent and color

1994
Thesis

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

1976
Student Paper

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

1983
Article

Behavior of inexperienced bumble bees toward spatial clumping of nectar

2007Entomologia Generalis
Student Paper

Using abiotic factors to predict seasonal bee abundance.

2014
Student Paper

Optimal foraging: a test in bumblebees

1982
Student Paper

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

2023
Article

Trapline foraging by bumble bees: III. Temporal patterning of visits

1998Behavioral Ecology
Student Paper

Thermal reguation of bumblebees

1973
Article

Pollination potential of male bumble bees (<i>Bombus impatiens</i>): movement patterns and pollen-transfer efficiency

2010Journal of Pollination Ecology
Student Paper

Population relationships of bees and bee mimic flies

1973
Student Paper

A comparison of butterfly populations on adjacent forest-stream, flowered slope, and sage hills in the Gothic Area; A study of factors determining butterfly flight

1954
Article

Skewed flowering distributions and bumblebees

1980American Midland Naturalist
Article

Bumblebee foraging: the threshold departure rule

1985Ecology
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
Student Paper

The affects [sic] of footpaths on Coleoptera community composition alpine meadow habitat

0
Student Paper

The foraging behavior of bees in response to the floral biology of <i>Frasera speciosa</i> (Gentianaceae)

2003
Student Paper

Comparisons of invertebrate populations of the herb layers of the alpine and subalpine zones

1947
Student Paper

Herbivory patterns in response to climate change in a sub-alpine meadow

1998
Student Paper

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

1980
Student Paper

Study of population structures in Rocky Mountain Butterflies

1983
Student Paper

Study of population structures in Rocky Mountain butterflies

1983
Student Paper

Field Estimation of food-web complexity in a sub-alpine meadow

1998
Article

Pollinator corridors

2001Conservation Biology in Practice
Article

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

1996American Midland Naturalist
Student Paper

An assessment of bat activity and insect abundance between three sub-alpine habitats in central Colorado

1998
Student Paper

Biodiversity of insect families in three montane habitats

1996
Article

Factors affecting pollinator visitation rates: a biogeographic comparison

1993Current Science
Student Paper

Directional foraging in hummingbirds

1982
Student Paper

Richness and distribution of insects on a slope frequently disturbed by avalanches

1997
Article

Optimal foraging: movement patterns of bumblebees between inflorescences

1978Theoretical Population BiologyDOI: 10.1016/0040-5809(78)90036-9
Student Paper

The effect of inflorescence number on bee behavior in <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i>

1994
Article

Bumblebee foraging: energetic consequences of using a threshold departure rule

1985Ecology
Article

Optimal foraging: random movement by pollen collecting bumblebees

1982OecologiaDOI: 10.1007/bf00389020

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Datasets (17)

Dataset

Yearly bee catch data

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

Dispersal of pollen analogue by Valeriana edulis pollinators

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

Ready for NMDS VOUCHERED BEES ONLY

2015DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5385j/4
Dataset

Pollination neighborhood survey data

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

Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t76hdr7zc
Dataset

data for functional group analyses

2015DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5385j/3
Dataset

Abundance richness and evenness data VOUCHERED BEES

2015DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5385j/1
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: Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s91p4
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

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

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8psn
Dataset

Supplementary material from "Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators"

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

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2021DOI: 10.7280/D19X0D
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: The effect of repeated, lethal sampling on wild bee abundance and diversity

2016DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5385j
Dataset

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

2021DOI: 10.5061/dryad.jdfn2z383