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Osmia

Common names: mason bees, solitary bee
Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Hymenoptera > Megachilidae
Roles: study subject, pollinator
ITIS TSN: 154377
External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank
Papers: 152 | Mentions: 163

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Publications (152)

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

2025OikosRole: text_match
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Foraging preferences of generalist Megachilidae

2025Role: text_match
student_paper

Functional morphology of pollen capture in Syrphid flies (Diptera syrphidae): The effects of pile density and body region

2025Role: text_match
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Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match
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Predicting the contribution of single trait evolution to rescuing a plant population from demographic impacts of climate change

2025Evolution LettersRole: text_match
student_paper

Reproductive ecology and pollination biology of Geum triflorum (prairie smoke)

2025Role: text_match
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Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match
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Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition

2025Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match
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Up high, hot and dry: Individual reproductive output in subalpine bees declines with increasing drought severity

2025Global Change BiologyRole: text_match
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Impact of Decreased Flower Attractiveness on Pollinator Visitation Rates and Pollinator Community Composition

2024Role: text_match
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Nowhere to go but Up: Investigating Bumble Bee population Shifts over Elevational Gradients

2024Role: text_match
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Phenological drivers and consequences for solitary bees

2024Role: text_match
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Plant-Pollinator Interactions between Erigeron speciosus and Heterotheca villosa in Virginia Basin

2024Role: text_match
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Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

2024Role: study subject
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The effects of elevation on flower abundance and pollinator visits on Helianthella quinquenervis

2024Role: text_match
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Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

2023Proceedings of the Royal Society BRole: text_match
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Differences in individual flowering time change pollen limitation and seed set in three montane wildflowers

2023American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Elevation Does Not Predict Density Dependent Population Dynamics in Valeriana edulis

2023Role: text_match
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Hot and Cold: Assessing the Thermal Limitations of Bumble Bees in a Changing Climate

2023Role: text_match
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How season length and diet breadth limit mason bee success across an elevational gradient

2023Role: text_match
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Looking through leftovers: an analysis of bee bowl bycatch

2023Role: text_match
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The causes and consequences of pollen defence

2023Role: text_match
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Bumble bee queen plasticity and social regulation of traits

2022Role: text_match
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Climate change and phenology

2022WIREs Climate ChangeRole: text_match
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Comparison of Bee Bowls and Netting for Monitoring Native Bees

2022Role: text_match
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Effects of Floral Abundance, Pollinator Interactions, and Floral Morphology on Stigmatic Pollen Deposition

2022Role: text_match
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Effects of Temperature on Voltinism in Subalpine Potter Wasps (Vespidae: Eumeninae)

2022Role: text_match
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How understory bee communities compare to open meadows in the Rocky Mountains

2022Role: text_match
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Legume germination is delayed in dry soils and in sterile soils devoid of microbial mutualists: Species-specific implications for upward range expansions

2022Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

2022Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match
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Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change

2022Role: text_match
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Removing flowers of a generalist plant changes pollinator visitation, composition, and interaction network structure

2022EcosphereRole: text_match
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Simultaneous niche expansion and contraction in plant–pollinator networks under drought

2022OikosRole: text_match
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Sweet and salty: Pollinators and sodium-enriched nectar

2022Role: text_match
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Tritrophic mutualisms in a changing climate

2022Role: pollinator
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Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee <i> Halictus rubicundus </i> (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

2021Journal of Chemical EcologyRole: text_match
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Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee <i> Halictus rubicundus </i> (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

2021Journal of Chemical EcologyRole: text_match
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Comparing pollen distribution on pollinators to floral community composition in the East River Valley

2021Role: text_match
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Demographic Consequences of Phenological Shifts in Response to Climate Change

2021Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and SystematicsRole: text_match
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Effects of Climate Variation and Nesting Traits on Sex Ratios of Adult Solitary Bees

2021Role: text_match
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Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

2021Frontiers of Ecology & EvolutionRole: text_match
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From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

2021Climate Change EcologyRole: text_match
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Global Warming, Advancing Bloom and Evidence for Pollinator Plasticity from Long-Term Bee Emergence Monitoring

2021InsectsRole: text_match
student_paper

Impacts of brood parasites, floral abundance, and bee age on maternal investment in a solitary bee, <i> Osmia iridis </i>

2021Role: text_match
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Open-top warming chambers reduce animal pollination of two subalpine herbs

2021Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match
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Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations

2021OecologiaRole: text_match
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The Effect of Climate Change on Two Primitively Eusocial Bees

2021Role: text_match
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The effect of early snowmelt on pollination: A study of four Rocky Mountain subalpine plant species

2021Role: text_match
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The sensory and cognitive ecology of nectar robbing

2021Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

2021OecologiaRole: text_match
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Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant

2021Biological Invasions doi 10.1007/s10530-021-02457-zRole: text_match
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Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

2020Ecology LettersRole: text_match
student_paper

Climate Change and Parasitism: An Investigation into Parasitic Bees' Climate Responses as Compared to their Hosts

2020Role: text_match
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Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

2020Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesRole: text_match
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Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2020American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Adaptation and diversification of bluebells <i>Mertensia</i> spp., Boranginaceae

2019Role: text_match
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Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

2019Role: text_match
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Effects of weather and floral density on foraging activity of cavity nesting bees (<i> Osmia </i>spp.)

2019Role: text_match
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How vulnerable are pollen-specialist solitary bees to temperature-mediated shifts in the timing of food availability?

2019Role: study subject
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Invasive plants and water availablity mediate outcomes of plant-pollinator interactions

2019Role: text_match
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Niche breadth changes in response to environmental perturbation: the impact of early snowmelt on subalpine plant-pollinator specialization

2019Role: text_match
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Observing pollinator trait variation in relation to niche breadth in seasons of high and low precipitation

2019Role: text_match
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Parasitism modifies the direct effects of warming on a hemiparasite and its host

2019PLOS ONERole: text_match
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Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

2019American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Pollinator Community Compositions Across Four Subalpine Plant Species

2019Role: text_match
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The effect of 10 years of repeat lethal sampling on wild bee abundance

2019Role: text_match
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The effect of nutrient availability on floral display and pollinator interactions

2019Role: text_match
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The function of floral orientation in bluebells: interactions with pollinators and rain in two species of <i> Mertensia </i> (Boraginaceae)

2019Journal of Plant EcologyRole: text_match
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The individual and combined effects of snowmelt timing and frost exposure on the reproductive success of montane forbs

2019Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
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Two-year bee or not two-year bee? How voltinism is affected by temperature and season length in a high-elevation solitary bee

2019American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Comparing Plant-Pollinator Network Structure between Drought and Non-Drought Years

2018Role: text_match
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Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

2018Role: text_match
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Evaluating Critical Thermal Tolerances of Solitary Bees

2018Role: text_match
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Examining the impact of pollen diet composition on bee development and lifespan

2018Role: study subject
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Nesting Preferences of Osmia Bees in the Rocky Mountains

2018Role: text_match
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Nesting aggregation as a predictor of brood parasitism in mason bees (<i>Osmia spp.</i>)

2018Ecological EntemologyRole: text_match
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The effect of surrounding bloom color on pan trap success in sampling Rocky Mountain bees

2018Role: text_match
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40 years of progress in pollination biology, and what it means for citizen scientists

2017Aquilegia: Newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant SocietyRole: text_match
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Direct benefits and indirect costs of warm temperatures for high-elevation populations of a solitary bee

2017EcologyRole: text_match
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Interactions between bee foraging and floral resource phenology shape bee populations and communities

2017Current Opinion in Insect ScienceRole: text_match
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Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology

2017Ecology LettersRole: text_match
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Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

2017Role: text_match
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Plant-pollinator interactions under climate change: the use of spatial and temporal transplants

2017Applications in Plant SciencesRole: text_match
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Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee <i>Hoplitis fulgida</i>

2017Role: text_match
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Shifts in water availability mediate plant–pollinator interactions

2017New PhytologistRole: text_match
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The Effects of Early Snow-melt on the Pollination and Seed Production of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>

2017Role: text_match
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Variability in the effectiveness of <i>Penstemon strictus</i> pollinators and the role that water availability plays

2017Role: text_match
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Assessing pollinators’ contribution to the reproductive success of <i>Mertensia ciliata</i>

2016Role: text_match
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Asteraceae pollen provisions protect <i>Osmia</i> mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from brood parasitism

2016American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Do bees show response diversity to environmental variables in a montane ecosystem?

2016Role: text_match
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Nesting aggregation as a determinant of brood parasitism in mason bees (<i>Osmia</i> spp.)

2016Role: study subject
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Use of Low Quality Pollen by Asteraceae-Specialist Osmia Mason Bees (<i>Hymenoptera: Megachilidae</i>)

2016Role: text_match
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An altitudinal cline in UV floral pattern corresponds with a behavioral change of a generalist pollinator assemblage

2015EcologyRole: text_match
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The effect of repeated, lethal sampling on wild bee abundance and diversity

2015Methods in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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The evolutionary ecology of ultraviolet floral pigmentation

2015Role: text_match
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Associational effects of E. speciosus and E. elatior on their pollinators and seed predators.

2014Role: text_match
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Asteraceae pollen specialization affects vulnerability to brood parasitism in mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae).

2014Role: text_match
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Consequences of Pollination Neighborhood Composition and Pollinator Communities

2014Role: text_match
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Direct and indirect effects of frost on growth and plant-pollinator interactions in Delphinium nuttallianum.

2014Role: text_match
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Nectar Yeasts in the Tall Larkspur <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i> (Ranunculaceae) and Effects on Components of Pollinator Foraging Behavior

2014PloS oneRole: text_match
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Selection of trait combinations through bee and fly visitation to flowers of <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>

2014Journal of Evolutionary BiologyRole: text_match
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Dose-dependent effects of nectar alkaloids in a montane plant-pollinator community

2013Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
student_paper

How does altered phenology affect pollination and reproduction of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>?

2013Role: text_match
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Maintenance of temporal synchrony between syrphid flies and floral resources despite differential phenological responses to climate

2013Global Change BiologyRole: text_match
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Norditerpene alkaloid concentrations in tissues and floral rewards of larkspurs and impacts on pollinators

2013Biochemical Systematics and EcologyRole: text_match
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Spatial variation in bee abundance and diversity across southern Rocky Mountain habitats

2013Role: text_match
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The effects of road dust on pollination and reproduction of the native wildflower species, <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>

2013Role: text_match
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The influence of aboveground and belowground resources on the persistence of females for a gynodioecious plant

2013Role: text_match
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Assessing the impacts of long-term pan trapping on native bee populations in sub-alpine ecosystems

2012Role: text_match
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Investigating the impact of pollinator- and seed predator-mediated selection on floral traits in an <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i> and <i>I. tenuituba</i> (Polemoniaceae) hybrid zone

2012Role: text_match
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Single-visit pollination efficacy of <i>psithyrus insularism</i> and <i>megachile</i> on <i>chamerion augustifolium</i>

2012Role: text_match
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The effects of floral traits on the behaviors of pollinators and pre-dispersal seed predators in a gynodioecious species, <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>.

2012Role: text_match
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There's no place like home: Investigating the ideal nesting requirements of Megachilidae bees in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

2012Role: text_match
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An examination of synchrony between insect emergence and flowering in Rocky Mountain meadows

2011Ecological MonographsRole: text_match
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Butterflies show flower colour preferences but not constancy in foraging at four plant species

2011Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Emergence of a mid-season period of low floral resources in a montane meadow ecosystem associated with climate change

2011Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
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Parental investment in burying beetles (<i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>): influence of seasonal timing and prior experience and efficacy of minimally guided instructional strategies in K-12 and undergraduate science classrooms: a meta-analysis

2011Role: text_match
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Seasonal change in a pollinator community and the maintenance of style length variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)

2011Annals of BotanyRole: text_match
student_paper

The effects of floral fragrance manipulations of <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i> on the seed predator <i>Hylemya</i>

2011Role: text_match
student_paper

A study of correlational selection through floral manipulations of <i></i>Polemonium foliosissimum<i></i> (Polemoniaceae)

2010Role: text_match
student_paper

Bee sampling has no effect on bee abundance in montane meadows

2010Role: text_match
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Beyond biomass: measuring the effects of community-level nitrogen enrichment on floral traits, pollinator visitation and plant reproduction

2010J of EcologyRole: text_match
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Consequences of variation in flowering time within and among individuals of <i>Mertensia fusiformis</i> (Boraginaceae), an early spring wildflower

2010Amer J of BotanyRole: text_match
student_paper

Effects of multi-species interactions in gynodioecious populations of <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>

2010Role: text_match
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Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: text_match
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The effects of phenological mismatches on demography

2010Phil Trans Royal Society BRole: text_match
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Toward a synthetic understanding of the role of phenology in ecology and evolution

2010Phil. Trans. R. Soc. BRole: text_match
student_paper

Does stigma-anther separation prevent sexual interference in dwarf bluebells (<i>Mertensia fusiformis</i>)?

2009Role: text_match
student_paper

Is there a positive correlation between bee size and size parameters of the flowers the bees visit for pollen to provision their nests?

2009Role: text_match
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Nectar sugar limits larval growth of solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

2009Environmental EntomologyRole: text_match
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The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

2009Role: text_match
student_paper

The relationships among butterfly size, visitation rate, handling time, and floral display size

2009Role: text_match
student_paper

Variation in the structure and dynamics of bee assemblages across distinct montane meadows

2009Role: text_match
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Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

2008Role: text_match
student_paper

Effect of Soil Metals on Pollination of Subalpine Wildflowers

2008Role: text_match
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Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match
student_paper

Pollination subsidies between wetland and dry meadow habitats

2007Role: text_match
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Predicting the effects of nectar robbing on plant reproduction: implications of pollen limitation and plant mating system

2007American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
student_paper

Are native bees picky enough? The effect of an invasive plant, <i>Linaria vulgaris</i>, on the foraging of native bee pollinators

2006Role: text_match
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Impact of insect pollinator group and floral display size on outcrossing rate

2006EvolutionRole: text_match
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Self-sterility in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i> (Polemoniaceae) is due to prezygotic ovule degeneration

2006American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
student_paper

The Effects of Soil Nitrogen Availability on Plant Reproduction and Solitary Bee Behavior

2006Role: text_match
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Temporal and spatial variation in pollination of a montane herb: a seven-year study

2005EcologyRole: text_match
student_paper

<i>Cardamine cordifolia</i> Pollination effects on seed and fruit production

2004Role: text_match
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Environmental influences on the phenology and abundance of flowering by <i>Androsace septentrionalis</i> (Primulaceae)

2003American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Predicting patterns of mating and potential hybridization from pollinator behavior

2002American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Effects of Local Density on Pollination and Reproduction in <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i> and <i>Aconitum columbianum</i> (Ranunculaceae)

1999American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Generalization in pollination systems, and why it matters

1996EcologyRole: text_match
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Solitary behavior in a high-altitude population of the social sweat bee <i></i>Halictus rubicundus<i></i> (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

1996Behav Ecol SociobiolRole: text_match
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Anthophilous fly distribution across an elevation gradient

1992American Midland NaturalistRole: text_match
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Floral morphology and cross-pollination in Erythronium grandiflorum (Liliaceae)

1985American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Pollen and gene dispersal: the influences of competition for pollination

1985EvolutionRole: text_match