Elsa Youngsteadt

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

• As prey and pollinators, insects increase reproduction and allow for outcrossing in the carnivorous plant Dionaea muscipula , American Journal of Botany (2024)
• Reaching new heights: Arboreal ant diversity in a North American temperate forest ecosystem , INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY (2024)
• Urbanization drives partner switching and loss of mutualism in an ant-plant symbiosis , ECOLOGY (2024)
• Bee species richness through time in an urbanizing landscape of the southeastern United States , Global Change Biology (2023)
• COLONY STRUCTURE AND REDESCRIPTION OF MALES IN THE RARELY COLLECTED ARBOREAL ANT, APHAENOGASTER MARIAE FOREL (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE) , PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON (2023)
• Can behaviour and physiology mitigate effects of warming on ectotherms? A test in urban ants , JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY (2023)
• Larger pollen loads increase risk of heat stress in foraging bumblebees , BIOLOGY LETTERS (2023)
• Urban Pollination Ecology , ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS (2023)
• Estimating bee abundance: can mark-recapture methods validate common sampling protocols? , APIDOLOGIE (2022)
• The Evolutionary Ecology of Mutualisms in Urban Landscapes , Urban Evolutionary Biology (2020)