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Lepidoptera

Common names: butterflies
Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera
Roles: study subject
ITIS TSN: 117232
External: RMBL Collections
Papers: 178 | Mentions: 192

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Knowledge graph centered on Lepidoptera with 44 nodes and 130 connections. Top connected: Microbes on mountainsides: contrasting elevational, Toward a synthetic understanding of the role of ph, The effects of phenological mismatches on demograp, Unknown, Scientists’ warning on climate change and insects.

Publications (178)

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Effects of experimental warming on floral scent, display and rewards in two subalpine herbs

2025Annals of BotanyRole: text_match
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Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging

2025Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyRole: 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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Genetic basis of an adaptive polymorphism controlling butterfly silver iridescence

2025Current BiologyRole: text_match
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Increasing aridity may threaten the maintenance of a plant defence polymorphism

2025Ecology LettersRole: text_match
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Sensory cues and memory in Lepidopteran mud puddling behavior

2025Role: text_match
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The effect of changing floral density on pollinator networks in a subalpine meadow environment

2025Role: text_match
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The sound of fear is heritable

2025Current ZoologyRole: text_match
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Changes in insect population dynamics due to climate change

2024Effects of Climate Change on Insects: Physiological, Evolutionary, and Ecological ResponsesRole: text_match
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Climate mediates the trade-offs associated with phenotypic plasticity in an amphibian polyphenism

2024Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match
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Coexistence in Burying Beetles: The Niche of Reproductive Temperatures

2024Role: text_match
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Impacts of assisted migration: An introduced herbivore has short-term and long-term effects on its native host plant population

2024Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataRole: text_match
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Interpopulation variation and optimal mating in the perennial herb, Polemonium brandegeei

2024Role: text_match
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Patterns of genetic variation and local adaptation of a native herbivore to a lethal invasive plant

2024Molecular EcologyRole: text_match
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Antibody development to identify components of IIS and mTOR signaling pathways in lepidopteran species, a set of non-model insects

2023microPublication BiologyRole: text_match
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Cross-trophic-level dynamics in aquatic ecosystems and their application across ecological contexts

2023Role: text_match
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Evidence for a single, ancient origin of a genus-wide alternative life history strategy

2023Science AdvancesRole: text_match
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Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America

2023EcologyRole: text_match
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Genetic mechanisms underlying maladaptation in specialized species interactions

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Long-term declines in insect abundance and biomass in a subalpine habitat

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

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Scientists’ warning on climate change and insects

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

2023Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Two sides of the same wing: ventral scales enhance dorsal wing color in the butterfly Speyeria mormonia

2023Journal of Experimental BiologyRole: 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
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Does an achromatic border alter color discrimination of male <i> Speyeria mormonia </i> butterflies during mate searching?

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

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Novel host unmasks heritable variation in plant preference within an insect population

2022EvolutionRole: text_match
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Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change

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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

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Chronic, low-level nitrogen deposition enhances abundances of ant-protected herbivores inhabiting an imperiled foundation species

2021Acta OecologicaRole: text_match
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DynaMETE: a hybrid MaxEnt-plus-mechanism theory of dynamic macroecology

2021Ecology LettersRole: text_match
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Ecological factors influence balancing selection on leaf chemical profiles of a wildflower

2021Nature Ecology & EvolutionRole: text_match
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From Insects to Frogs, Egg–Juvenile Recruitment Can Have Persistent Effects on Population Sizes

2021Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and SystematicsRole: 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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Larval Feeding Ability on a Drought-Stressed Invasive Plant

2021Role: text_match
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Nanda-Hamner Curves Show Huge Latitudinal Variation but No Circadian Components in <i> Drosophila Montana </i> Photoperiodism

2021Journal of Biological RhythmsRole: 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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Selection of floral traits by pollinators and seed predators during sequential life history stages

2021American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Shifting macroecological patterns and static theory failure in a stressed alpine plant community

2021EcosphereRole: text_match
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The genome of the Margined White butterfly (Pieris macdunnoughii): sex chromosome insights and the power of polishing with PoolSeq data

2021Genome Biology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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Butterfly foraging and the dispersal of microbes among & within flowers

2020Role: text_match
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Color preference of Speyeria mormonia

2020Role: text_match
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Ecological contexts of balancing selection in nature

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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Experience may outweigh cue similarity in maintaining a persistent host plant-based evolutionary trap.

2020Ecological Monographs. doi 10.1002/ecm.1412Role: text_match
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Flying by night: Comparing crepuscular pollinator networks across two sites in Western North America

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

2019Role: text_match
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Effects of Climate Change on Birds

2019Role: text_match
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Implications of global climate change on cow parsnip in Colorado: from flowering phenology to multitrophic interactions

2019Digital Collections of Colorado (Colorado State University)Role: 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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Observing pollinator trait variation in relation to niche breadth in seasons of high and low precipitation

2019Role: text_match
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Plant chemical mediation of ant behavior

2019Current Opinion in Insect ScienceRole: 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 mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

2019Role: text_match
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Pre- and post-ingestive defenses affect larval feeding on a lethal invasive host plant

2019Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataRole: text_match
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Snowmelt affects aphid (<i>Aphis asclepladis</i>) populations through soil moisture and host plant phenology

2019Role: text_match
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The persistent maladaptation of <i>Pieris macdunnoughii</i>: Constraints on adaptation to an evolutionary trap

2019Role: 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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Can Variation of Insect Populations Affect Mountain White-crowned Sparrow Daily Nest Survival?

2018Role: text_match
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Changes of dispersal ability in an isolated population

2018Role: text_match
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Chemotypic variation in oshá (<i>Ligusticum porteri</i>) in Colorado, USA

2018J Appl. Res. Med. Aromat. PlantsRole: text_match
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Climate Warming Drives Local Extinction in a Subalpine Meadow

2018Mountain ViewsRole: text_match
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Consistent shifts in pollinator-relevant floral coloration along a Rocky Mountain elevation gradient

2018Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
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Dispersal, Wing Morphology and Physiology relationships in <i> Euphydryas Gillettii </I> and implications for conservation

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Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

2018Role: text_match
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Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology spatially explicit

2018Mountain ViewsRole: text_match
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Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic CO Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Spatially Explicit

2018Mountain ViewsRole: text_match
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Conflict of interest? Investigating the costs and benefits of herbivore defense using the model plant <i>Boechera stricta</i>

2017Role: text_match
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Detection, prevalence and phylogenetic relationships of <i>Demodex</i> spp and further skin prostigmata mites (Acari, Arachnida) in wild and domestic mammals

2016PLoS ONERole: text_match
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Effects of larval dietary restriction on body morphology, with implications for flight and life history

2016Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataRole: text_match
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Historical changes in thermoregulatory traits of alpine butterflies reveal complex ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change

2016Climate Change ResponsesRole: text_match
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Larval feeding behavior and leaf components that affect the survival of <i>Pieris macdunnoughii</i> on the invasive mustard <i>Thlaspi arvense</i>

2016Role: text_match
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Morphological and physiological determinants of local adaptation to climate in Rocky Mountain butterflies

2016Conservation PhysiologyRole: text_match
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The Visual Ecology of <i>Speyeria mormonia</i>

2016Role: text_match
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Adaptation to climate and climate change in Rocky Mountain butterflies: Morphology, physiology, and behavior

2015Role: text_match
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Climate variability slows evolutionary responses of <i>Colias</i> butterflies to recent climate change

2015Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological SciencesRole: 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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Fine-Grained Distribution of a Non-Native Resource Can Alter the Population Dynamics of a Native Consumer

2015PloS oneRole: text_match
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Genes Suggest Ancestral Colour Polymorphisms Are Shared across Morphologically Cryptic Species in Arctic Bumblebees

2015PLoS OneRole: text_match
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Identifying PCR primers to facilitate molecular phylogenetics in Caddisflies (Trichoptera)

2015Zoological SystematicsRole: text_match
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Inferring Regional-Scale Species Diversity from Small-Plot Censuses

2015PLOS ONERole: text_match
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Investigating Herbivore Relationships to Boechera stricta in a Climate Change Context.

2015Role: 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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Aging, lifespan, and energetics under adult dietary restriction in Lepidoptera

2014Physiological and Biochemical ZoologyRole: text_match
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Dynamics and structure of a native Pieris population in the presence of a non-native, toxic larval host plant

2014Journal of the Lepidopterists SocietyRole: text_match
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Effects of early snowmelt and climate warming on Valeriana edulis and the insects that depend on it.

2014Role: text_match
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Floral scent in natural hybrids of <i>Ipomopsis</i> (Polemoniaceae) and their two parental species

2014Annals of BotanyRole: text_match
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Geographic differences and microevolutionary changes in thermal sensitivity of butterfly larvae in response to climate

2014Functional EcologyRole: text_match
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Maximum information entropy: a foundation for ecological theory

2014Trends in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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Rapid evolution and population divergence in response to environmental change in <i>Colias</i> butterlies

2014Role: text_match
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Roles of pollinators, seed predators, and vertebrate herbivores in maintaining females in the gynodioecious <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>.

2014Role: text_match
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A genetic polymorphism evolving in parallel in two cell compartments and in two clades

2013BMC Evolutionary BiologyRole: text_match
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Chemical camouflage and the consequences of changing host plants in a treehopper-ant mutualism

2013Role: text_match
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Fitness costs of butterfly oviposition on a lethal non-native plant in a mixed native and non-native plant community

2013OecologiaRole: 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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A single climate driver has direct and indirect effects on insect population dynamics

2012Ecology LettersRole: text_match
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Genes involved in the evolution of herbivory by a leaf-mining drosophilid fly

2012Genome Biology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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Influence of macronutrient imbalance on native ant foraging and interspecific interactions in the field

2012Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Plant responses to the joint effects of herbivores and pollinators

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 structure and function of subalpine ecosystems in the face of climate change

2012Role: 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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Mining the plant-insect interface with a leafmining <i>Drosophila</i> of <i>Arabidopsis</i>

2011Molecular EcologyRole: 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
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Testing the maximum entropy theory of ecology in the warming meadow

2011Role: text_match
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The effects of elevation and climate on butterfly (<i>Lepidoptera</i>) abundance and activity

2011Role: text_match
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Why do vulnerable mayflies thrive in trout streams?

2011American EntomologistRole: text_match
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Oviposition behavior and offspring performance in herbivorous insects: consequences of climatic and habitat heterogeneity

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

2010Role: text_match
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Testing the predictions of the Maximum Information Entropy Theory for abundance and energy distributions on the Gothic earthflow

2010Role: text_match
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The effect of elevation on the phenology and pollination ecology of <i></i>Frasera speciosa<i></i> (Gentianaceae)

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
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A balanced diet: Effects of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) nutritional state on the balance between mutualism and predation upon aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

2009Role: text_match
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Helianthella quinquernervis ray floret removal: effect on insect visitation frequency

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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Understanding insect life histories and senescence through a resource allocation lens

2009Functional EcologyRole: text_match
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A mitochondrial-DNA-based phylogeny for some evolutionary-genetic model species of <i>Colias</i> butterfly (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

2008Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionRole: 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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Butterfly foraging behavior: can butterflies detect nectar in flowering plants?

2008Role: text_match
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Insect herbivore stoichiometry: the relative importance of host plants and ant mutualists

2008Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Microbes on mountainsides: contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

2008PNASRole: text_match
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A comparative study of the cost of alternative mayfly oviposition behaviors.

2007Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyRole: text_match
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Flower preference and constancy in four butterfly species

2007Role: text_match
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The green-veined white (Pieris napi L.), its Pierine relatives, and the systematics of divergent character sets (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

2006Biological Journal of the Linnean SocietyRole: text_match
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The timing of the ant-effect on nymph size and survivorship in an ant-treehopper mutualism

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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Importance of Fertilization of Host Plants to Ant Tending and Growth Rates in Glaucopysche lygadmus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

2005Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match
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Temporal and spatial variation in pollination of a montane herb: a seven-year study

2005EcologyRole: text_match
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Development to diapause in a population of <i>Euphydryas gillettii</i> (Nymphalidae): effects of egg cluster size and habitat parameters

2004Role: text_match
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Direct and indirect effects of pollinators and seed predators to selection on plant and floral traits

2004OikosRole: text_match
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Resource specialization in puddling Lepidoptera

2004Enivornmental EntomologyRole: text_match
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The ecology of pollination and nectar robbing in Linaria vulgaris in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

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

2004Role: text_match
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Adaptation at specific loci. VII. Natural selection, dispersal and the diversity of molecular-functional variation patterns among butterfly species complexes (<i>Colias</i>: Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

2003Molecular EcologyRole: text_match
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Measuring dispersal in a metapopulation using stable isotope enrichment: high rates of sex-biased disperal between patches in a mayfly population

2003OikosRole: text_match
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The evolution of wing color: male mate choice opposes adaptive wing color divergence in <i>Colias</i> butterflies

2003EvolutionRole: text_match
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The response of Heracleum sphondylium (Apiaceae) and its herbivores to

2003URBEERole: 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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Renewable and non-renewable resources: the role of amino acid turnover in allocation to reproduction in Lepidoptera

2002Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesRole: text_match
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The evolution of wing color in <i>Colias</i> butterflies: heritability, sex linkage, and population divergence

2002EvolutionRole: 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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Assessing the quality of different ant species as partners of a myrmecophilous butterfly

2001OecologiaRole: text_match
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Plant resource allocation and herbivory for <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i> (Asteraceae) over an elevational gradient

2001Role: text_match
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The matrix matters: effective isolation in fragmented landscapes

2001American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Hydrologic and behavioral constraints on oviposition of stream insects: implications for adult dispersal

2000OecologiaRole: text_match
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Adaptation at specific loci. VI. Divergence vs parallelism of polymorphic allozymes in molecular function and fitness-component effects among Colias species (Lepidoptera:Pieridae)

1996Molecular Biology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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Mating systems and sexual division of foraging effort affect puddling behavior by butterflies

1996Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Predatory and parasitic Lepidoptera: carnivores living on plants

1995Journal of the Lepidoptera SocietyRole: text_match
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Migration of rufous hummingbirds

1993WildbirdRole: text_match
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The effect of adult food limitation on life history traits in Speyeria mormonia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

1993EcologyRole: text_match
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A general model of the role of male-donated nutrients in female insects' reproduction

1990American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Pollination biology in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, with comparisons with montane Colorado, USA

1988Australian Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
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Rates of nectar feeding in butterflies: effects of sex, size, age, and sugar concentration

1988Functional EcologyRole: text_match
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Within population variation in the demography of Speyeria mormonia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

1987Holarctic EcologyRole: text_match
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Resource allocation to oocytes: heritable variation with altitude in Colias philodice eriphyle (Lepidoptera)

1986American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Thermal ecology of Pieris butterflies (Lepidoptera; Pieridae): a new mechanism of behavioral thermoregulation

1985OecologiaRole: text_match
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Thermoregulatory significance of wing melanization in Pieris butterflies (Lepidoptera; Pieridae): physics, posture, and pattern

1985OecologiaRole: text_match
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Population structure and recommendations for conservation of the narrowly endemic alpine butterfly Boloria acrocnema (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

1984Biological ConservationRole: text_match
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The effects of capturing and marking on subsequent activity in <i>Boloria acrocnema</i> (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), with a comparison of different numerical models that estimate population size

1984Biological ConservationRole: text_match
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Parasitoids as selective agents in the symbiosis between lycaenid butterfly larvae and ants

1981ScienceRole: text_match
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Adult behavior and population structure in Erebia epipsodes (Lepidoptera: Satyrininae)

1970EcologyRole: text_match
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The population structure of Erebia epipsodea (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae)

1970EcologyRole: text_match
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A new sibling Papilio from the Rocky Mountains, with genetic and biological notes (Insecta, Lepidoptera)

1968PostillaRole: text_match
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The thoracic and basal abdominal musculature of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)

1963MicroentomologyRole: text_match
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Beaver pond project

1962Role: text_match
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The head musculature of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)

1962MicroentomologyRole: text_match
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The comparative morphology of the male reproductive system of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). I. Some nearctic species

1961MicroentomologyRole: text_match
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A study of hybrids in Colias (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

1959EvolutionRole: text_match
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Comparative studies of the developmental rates, hibernation, and food plants in North American Colias (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)

1958American Midland NaturalistRole: text_match
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Genetics of populations of Lepidoptera

1958Proc X Int Congress Ent (Montreal)Role: text_match
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Genetics of populations of Lepidoptera

1956Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of EntomologyRole: text_match
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Taxonomic notes on Oeneis uhleri Roskirt (Lepidoptera, Satyridae)

1953Amer Mus NovitatesRole: text_match