Elsa Youngsteadt
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Bio
Education
PhD, Entomology, NC State University (2008)
Research Interests
Effects of urbanization, climate change, and other anthropogenic changes on populations, communities, interactions, and ecosystem services; plant-insect interactions.
Extension and Outreach Interests
Urban biodiversity and pollinator conservation; Protecting Pollinators in Urban Landscapes conference
Publications
- Colony Structure and Redescription of Males in the Rarely Collected Arboreal Ant, Aphaenogaster mariae Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) , The Catalogue of Life (2026)
- Data from: To provide pollinator nesting habitat, cut dead perennial stems in their first winter , DRYAD (2026)
- Data from: Wealth does not buy richness: Plant and soil bacterial diversity in temperate suburban lawns are not influenced by income , DRYAD (2026)
- Nesting biology shapes climate vulnerability of social bees ( Bombus spp.) , Journal of Animal Ecology (2026)
- Thermal limits reveal asymmetric climate vulnerability across a solitary bee species' range , Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2026)
- Thermal limits reveal asymmetric climate vulnerability across a solitary bee species' range , Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2026)
- Wealth does not buy richness: plant and soil bacterial diversity in temperate suburban yards are not influenced by income , Urban Ecosystems (2026)
- Bee-Mediated Pollen Transport Across Five Urban Landscape Features: Buildings Are Important Barriers , ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2025)
- Data from: Spring ephemeral Erythronium umbilicatum may not be vulnerable to phenological mismatch with overstory trees , Open MIND (2025)
- Land Use Change Consistently Reduces α‐ But Not β‐ and γ‐Diversity of Bees , Global Change Biology (2025)