Area of research
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics · Insect Science
Research interest
Research interests include Plant and animal studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, and Plant Parasitism and Resistance.
Expanded phylogeny of Nomadinae (Hymenoptera: Apidae) with integration of UCE and DNA barcode sequence data
Symbiotic bacteria and fungi proliferate in diapause and may enhance overwintering survival in a solitary bee
Advancing bee conservation in the US: gaps and opportunities in data collection and reporting
The evolutionary history of bees in time and space
Microbes, the ‘silent third partners’ of bee–angiosperm mutualisms
Bee breweries: The unusually fermentative, lactobacilli-dominated brood cell microbiomes of cellophane bees
Exosymbiotic microbes within fermented pollen provisions are as important for the development of solitary bees as the pollen itself
Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities
Bees in the trees: Diverse spring fauna in temperate forest edge canopies
Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the mining bee family Andrenidae
<scp>CropPol</scp>: A dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination
(More than) Hitchhikers through the network: the shared microbiome of bees and flowers
Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees
Diet diversity and pesticide risk mediate the negative effects of land use change on solitary bee offspring production
Gene Tree Estimation Error with Ultraconserved Elements: An Empirical Study on <i>Pseudapis</i> Bees
Agriculturally dominated landscapes reduce bee phylogenetic diversity and pollination services
Combining transcriptomes and ultraconserved elements to illuminate the phylogeny of Apidae
Landscape simplification reduces classical biological control and crop yield
Landscape context shifts the balance of costs and benefits from wildflower borders on multiple ecosystem services
The diversification of neopasiphaeine bees during the Cenozoic (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)
Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution of Stinging Wasps and the Origins of Ants and Bees
A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes
Temporally dependent pollinator competition and facilitation with mass flowering crops affects yield in co-blooming crops
The impact of GC bias on phylogenetic accuracy using targeted enrichment phylogenomic data
Phylogeny, new generic-level classification, and historical biogeography of the Eucera complex (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Flower handling behavior and abundance determine the relative contribution of pollinators to seed set in apple orchards
Pollination services for apple are dependent on diverse wild bee communities
Crop domestication facilitated rapid geographical expansion of a specialist pollinator, the squash bee<i>Peponapis pruinosa</i>
Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation
Negative effects of pesticides on wild bee communities can be buffered by landscape context
Collaborative Research: Bees of the World - Phylogenomics, Biogeography, and Evolution of Host-Plant Associations
Collaborative Research: The brood cell microbiome of solitary bees: origin, diversity, function, and vulnerability
Phylogeny and diversification of the ants, wasps and bees (Hymenoptera Aculeata) using targeted enrichment of ultra-conserved elements
Phylogeny of Apidae (Hymenoptera) with an emphasis on the evolution and antiquity of eusociality
REVSYS: Phylogeny and Systematics of the Megachilid Bees
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Evolution of cleptoparasitism in apid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Phylogeny and Historical Biogeography of the Primitive Bee Family Colletidae
Collaborative Research: Reconstructing the Early Evolution of the Bees and the History of Bee/Angiosperm Relationships
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Phylogeny and Evolution of Host Associations and Fighting Behavior in Neotropical Derelomine Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Dissertation Research: Native Hawaiian Bees (Hylaeus): Phylogenetics and Pollen Usage
Dissertation Research: Phylogeny and Evolution of Subsocial Behavior in the New World Treehopper Subfamily Membracinae (Homoptera: Membracidae)
Phylogenetic Analysis of the Subfamily Halictinae (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) with an analysis of Social Evolution
Phylogenetic Analysis of Social Evolution in the Genus Lasioglossum Sensu Lato (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
PRF: Assessing the Nestmate Relatedness and Sperm Precedence in a Communal Bee, Perdita portalis, Using DNA Fingerprnting