Rebecca Irwin
Professor
University Director - Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
David Clark Labs 253
Bio
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
- Costs of floral larceny: A meta-analytical evaluation of nectar robbing and nectar theft on animal-pollinated plants , ECOLOGY (2025)
- As prey and pollinators, insects increase reproduction and allow for outcrossing in the carnivorous plant Dionaea muscipula , American Journal of Botany (2024)
- Colorado Native Pollinating Insects Health Study , (2024)
- Socioecological drivers of mutualistic and antagonistic plant-insect interactions and interaction outcomes in suburban landscapes , PLOS ONE (2024)
- The Hole Truth: Why Do Bumble Bees Rob Flowers More Than Once? , PLANTS-BASEL (2024)
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Bee species richness through time in an urbanizing landscape of the southeastern
United States , Global Change Biology (2023) - 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)