Becky Irwin
Professor
University Director – Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
David Clark Labs 253
Education
Ph.D., University of Vermont
Research Interests
Biological communities form from a complex web of interactions among multiple species. My lab is interested in the ecology and evolution of multiple-species interactions, pollination biology, and species invasions. Among my research interests are the relative importance of direct and indirect effects of antagonists on the ecology and evolution of plant-pollinator mutualisms, and whether plant interactions with mutualists and antagonists simultaneously shape and constrain selection on nectar traits.
Web Resources
Publications
- As prey and pollinators, insects increase reproduction and allow for outcrossing in the carnivorous plant <i>Dionaea muscipula, American Journal of Botany (2024)
- Colorado Native Pollinating Insects Health Study (2024)
- Bee species richness through time in an urbanizing landscape of the southeastern <scp>United States, Global Change Biology (2023)
- Comparative analysis of 3 pollen sterilization methods for feeding bumble bees, Journal of Economic Entomology (2023)
- Conflicting constraints on male mating success shape reward size in pollenârewarding plants, American Journal of Botany (2023)
- Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2023)
- Differential bumble bee gene expression associated with pathogen infection and pollen diet, BMC Genomics (2023)
- Nature's chefs: Uniting the hidden diversity of food making and preparing species across the tree of life, BioScience (2023)
- Sunflower plantings reduce a common gut pathogen and increase queen production in common eastern bumblebee colonies, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2023)
- Sunflower spines and beyond: Mechanisms and breadth of pollen that reduce gut pathogen infection in the common eastern bumble bee, Functional Ecology (2023)