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
- Bee-Mediated Pollen Transport Across Five Urban Landscape Features: Buildings Are Important Barriers , ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2025)
- Land Use Change Consistently Reduces α- But Not β- and γ-Diversity of Bees , GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2025)
- Too cold to handle: Climatic constraints on arboreal ants in temperate forests , JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY (2025)
- Urbanization strengthens vertical stratification of ant nutrient preferences in a temperate forest ecosystem , PLOS ONE (2025)
- 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)
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Bee species richness through time in an urbanizing landscape of the southeastern
United States , Global Change Biology (2023) - Can behaviour and physiology mitigate effects of warming on ectotherms? A test in urban ants , Journal of Animal Ecology (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)