Elsa Youngsteadt
Associate Professor
Extension Leader
DCL 234
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)
- 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) - 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)
- Ecology in the Sixth Mass Extinction: Detecting and Understanding Rare Biotic Interactions , ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (2019)