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
- 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 pollen-rewarding 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)
- Comparative impacts of long-term trends in snowmelt and species interactions on plant population dynamics, JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY (2022)
- Effects of an alternative host on the prevalence and intensity of infection of a bumble bee parasite, PARASITOLOGY (2022)
- Floral shape predicts bee-parasite transmission potential, ECOLOGY (2022)