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Nicrophorus investigator

Common names: burying beetle
Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Coleoptera > Silphidae
Roles: study subject
ITIS TSN: 718733
External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank
Papers: 39 | Mentions: 42

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Publications (39)

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Out of sight, out of mind: The role of carcass burial and maintenance in reducing competition in Nicrophorus investigator

2025Role: text_match
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Coexistence in Burying Beetles: The Niche of Reproductive Temperatures

2024Role: text_match
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The Fate of Burying Beetles and their Carcasses: Hardships, Competition and Environmental Factors

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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Plant Bioassay Testing Soil Quality Following Carrion Insect Activity

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

2022Role: text_match
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Marmot mass gain rates relate to their group’s social structure

2022Behavioral EcologyRole: text_match
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The Impact of Carrion Insects on Human Impacted Soil

2022Role: text_match
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Abundance and elevational range shifts of three species of burying beetle in Gunnison County, Colorado and importance of stridulation during reproduction in burying beetles

2021Role: text_match
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Stridulation in <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i> as a Possible Means of Cooperation during Carcass Sequestration

2019Role: text_match
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Effects of Ant Presence on Nicrophorus investigator’s Reproductive Success

2018Role: text_match
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Native ant (<i>Formica rufa, Formica fusca</i>), <i>Nicrophorus spp.</i> interactions at small mammal carcass resources in the southern Rocky Mountains, Gunnison National Forest, Colorado.

2017Role: text_match
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Habitat Selection in Nicrophoryus investigator and defodiens.

2015Role: text_match
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Roles of Stridulation in Nicophorus investigator.

2015Role: text_match
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Nicrophorus investigator: The Effects of Asymmetry in Body Size on the Duration of Bi-parental Care.

2014Role: text_match
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Reproductive Success and Parental Care of Nicrophorus investigator.

2014Role: text_match
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The effect of habitat on intra-generic competition

2013Role: text_match
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The effects of parental care on brood success and quality in the burying beetle <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>

2013Role: text_match
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Parasite infection and host dynamics in a naturally fluctuating rodent population

2012Canadian Journal of ZoologyRole: text_match
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Frenemies: conflict and cooperation in burying beetle (<i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>) parental care

2011Role: 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: study subject
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Predicting climate-induced shifts in burying beetle distributions: integrating niche partitioning, competition, and thermal performance

2010Role: text_match
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Sperm retention in female Nicrophorus investigator

2009Role: text_match
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Competition between <i></i>Nicrophorus investigator<i></i>, <i></i>Nicrophorus defodiens<i></i>, and <i></i>Thanatophilus lapponica<i></i> for carrion resources

2008Role: text_match
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Phoretic mite discrimination among male burying beetle (<i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>) hosts

2008Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match
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Seasonal reproductive potential and iteroparity of the burying beetle (Coleoptera: Silphidae)

2008Role: 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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Effect of larval body size on overwinter survival and emerging adult size in the burying beetle, <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>

2002Canadian Journal of ZoologyRole: text_match
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Post-copulatory benefits to male burying beetles, Nicrophorus investigator, and the analysis of sequential reproductive behaviors: why do male beetles perform parental care?

2002Role: text_match
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Inter- and intra-specific competition between and among <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i> and <i>Nicrophorus defodiens</i>

2001Role: text_match
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Multiple-paternity in burying beetles <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>

2001Role: text_match
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Resource availability and population dynamics of <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>, an obligate carrion breeder

2001Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Altitudinal variation in body size and population density of <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i> (Coleoptera: Silphidae)

2000Environmental EntomologyRole: text_match
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Comparison of reproductive success of in-situ burial verrsus the use of abandoned burrows for carcass interment by <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i> (Coleoptera:Silphidae)

2000Journal of the Kansas Entomological SocietyRole: text_match
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The use of rodent burrows by burying beetles, <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>: A case of behavioral plasticity

2000Role: text_match
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Phoretic mite distributions among the burying beetle, <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>

1998Role: text_match
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A population census and study of interspecific competition between <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i> and <i>Nicrophorus defodiens</i>

1996Role: text_match
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Carcass selection in a high altitude population of the burying beetle, <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>, (Silphidae)

1995Southwestern NaturalistRole: text_match
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The natural history and conservation status of <i>Nicrophorus americanus</i> and <i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>

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