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Apis mellifera

Common names: honey bee, honey-bee, honeybees
Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
Roles: study subject, reference species, pollinator
ITIS TSN: 154396
External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank
Papers: 123 | Mentions: 139

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Knowledge graph centered on Apis mellifera with 41 nodes and 151 connections. Top connected: Unknown, Understanding insect life histories and senescence, Hummingbird, Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of pla, Bombus.

Publications (123)

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A nectar-inhabiting bacterium may not influence female fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata

2025Role: text_match
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Dimensions of difference: Multi-scale consequences of trait variation in bumble bees

2025Role: text_match
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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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Flying by night: Comparing nocturnal pollinator networks over time in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2025Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Improving plant DNA metabarcoding accuracy with ecological filters and Angiosperms353: Field and pollen microscopy validation

2025Applications in Plant SciencesRole: text_match
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Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match
student_paper

Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

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
student_paper

Temperature and relative humidity effects on nectar quantity, nectar quality, and plant-pollinator interactions

2025Role: 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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Wild foundress queen bumble bees make numerous, short foraging trips and exhibit frequent nest failure: Insights from trap-nesting and RFID tracking

2025Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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Does Floral Nectar Depth Correlate With Pollinator Proboscis Length?

2024Role: text_match
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Phenological drivers and consequences for solitary bees

2024Role: text_match
student_paper

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

2024PlantsRole: text_match
student_paper

In your stomach or in your nectar? Disentangling the effects of two pollination-related yeasts on bumblebee behavior and foraging

2023Role: text_match
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Plant Bioassay Testing Soil Quality Following Carrion Insect Activity

2023Role: text_match
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The causes and consequences of pollen defence

2023Role: text_match
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The dispersal of microbes among and within flowers by butterflies

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

2022Role: text_match
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Carry-over effects of larval food stress on adult energetics and life history in a nectar-feeding butterfly

2022Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
student_paper

Comparison of Bee Bowls and Netting for Monitoring Native Bees

2022Role: text_match
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Ecological Drivers and Consequences of Bumble Bee Body Size Variation

2022Environmental Entomology Role: 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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The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators

2022Journal of Animal 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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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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Diverse cressdnaviruses and an anellovirus identified in the fecal samples of yellow-bellied marmots

2021VirologyRole: 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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Nectar Variation in Simple and Compound Flowers; and its Effects on Plant Pollinator Interactions

2021Role: 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 effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

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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Trade-off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions

2021Biological ReviewsRole: text_match
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Understanding Organismal Capacity to Respond to Anthropogenic Change: Barriers and Solutions

2021Integrative and Comparative BiologyRole: 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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Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

2020Ecology LettersRole: text_match
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Birds Perceive More Intraspecific Color Variation in Bird-Pollinated Than Bee-Pollinated Flowers

2020Frontiers in Plant Science. doi 10.3389/fpls.2020.590347Role: text_match
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Bumble bees are constant to nectar-robbing behaviour despite low switching costs

2020Animal BehaviourRole: text_match
student_paper

Butterfly foraging and the dispersal of microbes among & within flowers

2020Role: text_match
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Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy

2020Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Flying by night: Comparing crepuscular pollinator networks across two sites in Western North America

2020Role: text_match
student_paper

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

2020Role: text_match
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Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees

2020Biological Conservation doi 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108821Role: text_match
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Untangling the seasonal dynamics of plant-pollinator communities

2020Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17894-yRole: text_match
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Invasive plants and water availablity mediate outcomes of plant-pollinator interactions

2019Role: text_match
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No evidence that gut microbiota impose a net cost on their butterfly host

2019Molecular EcologyRole: 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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Stoichiometry and infectious disease: Linking chemical elements and parasitic interactions

2019Role: text_match
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Consistent shifts in pollinator-relevant floral coloration along a Rocky Mountain elevation gradient

2018Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
student_paper

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: reference species
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Nesting Preferences of Osmia Bees in the Rocky Mountains

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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Diversification of Type VI Secretion System Toxins Reveals Ancient Antagonism among Bee Gut Microbes

2017mBioRole: text_match
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Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness consequences for plants

2017Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
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Foraging strategy predicts foraging economy in a facultative secondary nectar robber

2017OikosRole: text_match
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Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks

2017Ecology LettersRole: 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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Metabolism of toxic sugars by the bee gut symbiont <i>Gilliamella apicola</i>

2017mBioRole: 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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Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee <i>Hoplitis fulgida</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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Asteraceae pollen provisions protect <i>Osmia</i> mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from brood parasitism

2016American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Competitive context drives pollinator behavior: linking foraging plasticity, natural pollen deposition, and plant reproduction.

2016Role: text_match
student_paper

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: text_match
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Strain diversity and host specificity in a specialized gut symbiont of honeybees and bumblebees

2016Molecular EcologyRole: text_match
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Context-dependent reproductive isolation mediated by floral scent and color

2015EvolutionRole: text_match
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Effects of increased flight on the energetics and life history of the butterfly <i>Speyeria mormonia</i>

2015PLoS OneRole: 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 effects of primary and secondary nectar robbing of Ipomopsis aggregata on hummingbird visitation.

2015Role: text_match
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The evolutionary ecology of ultraviolet floral pigmentation

2015Role: 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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Stimulation of flower nectar replenishment by removal: a survey of eleven animal-pollinated plant species

2014Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match
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Exploring within season temporal variation in plant-pollinator interactions in sub-alpine meadows using weekly pollination interaction networks

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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Quantifying the effects of pollen load and heterospecific pollen ratio on the species <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i> (Ranunculaceae)

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

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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A comparative study of plant species diversity on three historic mining sites

2011Role: 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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Honey Bee Colony Health: Challenges and Sustainable Solutions

2011Role: text_match
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Bee sampling has no effect on bee abundance in montane meadows

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

2010Role: study subject
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Effects of flowering plant density on pollinator visitation, pollen receipt, and seed production in <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i>

2009American Journal of BotanyRole: 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: pollinator
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The importance of interannual variation and bottom-up nitrogen enrichment for plant-pollinator networks

2009OikosRole: text_match
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Understanding insect life histories and senescence through a resource allocation lens

2009Functional EcologyRole: 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
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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
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Changing distributions, changing climate: Using <i>Bombus</i> as an indicator of global warming near Crested Butte, Colorado

2007Role: text_match
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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
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Floral larceny: Implications, resistance, and the potential for tolerance

2006Role: text_match
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Effects of nectar robbing on nectar dynamics and bumblebee foraging strategies in Linaria vulgaris

2005OikosRole: text_match
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The effects of Castilleja miniata's parasitic relationship with Delphinium nuttallianum on pollinator visitation and pollination success

2005Role: text_match
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Temperature regulation in burying beetles (<i>Nicrophorus</i> spp.: Coleoptera: Silphidae): effects of body size, morphology and environmental temperature

2004The Journal of Experimental BiologyRole: text_match
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The ecology of pollination and nectar robbing in Linaria vulgaris in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2004TSpaceRole: pollinator
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The structure of plant-pollinator interactions in montane meadow environments

2004Role: text_match
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Pollen transfer by hummingbirds and bumblebees, and divergence of pollination modes in <i>Penstemon</i>

2003EvolutionRole: text_match
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Volatile production by the buds and corollas of two sympatric, confamial plants, Ipomopsis aggregata and Polemonium foliosissimum

2002Journal of Chemical EcologyRole: text_match
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Are nectar robbers cheaters or mutualists?

2000EcologyRole: text_match
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Consequences of nectar robbing for realized male function in a hummingbird-pollinated plant

2000EcologyRole: text_match
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The evolution of functionally referential alarm communication: multiple adaptations; multiple constraints

1999Evolution of CommunicationRole: text_match
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Nectar Robbing in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>: Effects on Pollinator Behavior and Plant Fitness

1998OecologiaRole: 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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Hypothesis concerning the causes of the disappearance of boreal toads from the mountains of Colorado

1993Conservation BiologyRole: text_match
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Heterogeneity among floral visitors leads to discordance between removal and deposition of pollen

1991EcologyRole: text_match
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Bumblebee response to variation in nectar availability

1981EcologyRole: text_match