Elsa Youngsteadt

As prey and pollinators, insects increase reproduction and allow for outcrossing in the carnivorous plant <i>Dionaea muscipula

American Journal of Botany, 111(2).

Reaching new heights: Arboreal ant diversity in a North American temperate forest ecosystem

Insect Conservation and Diversity, 11.

Urbanization drives partner switching and loss of mutualism in an ant–plant symbiosis

Ecology, 105(11).

Bee species richness through time in an urbanizing landscape of the southeastern <scp>United States

Global Change Biology, 30(1).

Can behaviour and physiology mitigate effects of warming on ectotherms? A test in urban ants

Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(3), 568–579.

Colony Structure and Redescription of Males in the Rarely Collected Arboreal Ant, Aphaenogaster mariae Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 125(1), 77–88.

Compact or Sprawling Cities: Has the Sparing-Sharing Framework Yielded an Ecological Verdict?

Current Landscape Ecology Reports, 8(1), 11–22.

Larger pollen loads increase risk of heat stress in foraging bumblebees

Biology Letters, 19(5).

Urban Pollination Ecology

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 54(1), 21–42.

Urbanization Shapes Insect Diversity

Estimating bee abundance: can mark-recapture methods validate common sampling protocols?

Apidologie, 53(1).

How To Manage a Successful Bee Hotel

(NC Cooperative Extension No. AG-915). Raleigh, NC: NC Cooperative Extension.

Ecology of urban climates: The need for landscape biophysics in cities

In P. Barbosa (Ed.), Urban Ecology: Its Nature and Challenges. Wallingford, UK: CABI.

Ecology of urban climates: the need for landscape biophysics in cities.

The Bees of North Carolina: An Identification Guide

Raleigh, NC: NC Cooperative Extension Service.

The Evolutionary Ecology of Mutualisms in Urban Landscapes

Ecology in the Sixth Mass Extinction: Detecting and Understanding Rare Biotic Interactions

Youngsteadt, E., Lopez-Uribe, M. M., & Sorenson, C. E. (2019, May). ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Vol. 112, pp. 119–121.

The Impact of Prescribed Burning on Native Bee Communities (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in Longleaf Pine Savannas in the North Carolina Sandhills

Environmental Entomology, 49(1), 211–219.

The bees of North Carolina : an identification guide

Raleigh, North Carolina: NC State Extension.

Accurate near surface air temperature measurements are necessary to gauge large-scale ecological responses to global climate change

Terando, A., Youngsteadt, E., Meineke, E., & Prado, S. (2018, June).

Construction of a Compact Low-Cost Radiation Shield for Air-Temperature Sensors in Ecological Field Studies

Journal of Visualized Experiments, 11(141).

Failure of Pollen Transport Despite High Bee Visitation in an Endangered Dioecious Shrub

Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 112(3), 169–179.

Pollination Ecology and Morphology of Venus Flytrap in Sites of Varying Time Since Last Fire

Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 112(3), 141–149.

Venus Flytrap Rarely Traps Its Pollinators

The American Naturalist, 191(4), 539–546.

Wild bee abundance declines with urban warming, regardless of floral density

Urban Ecosystems, 21(3), 419–428.

Ad hoc instrumentation methods in ecological studies produce highly biased temperature measurements

Ecology and Evolution, 7(23), 9890–9904.

Higher immunocompetence is associated with higher genetic diversity in feral honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)

CONSERVATION GENETICS, 18(3), 659–666.

Homogenizing an urban habitat mosaic: arthropod diversity declines in New York City parks after Super Storm Sandy

Ecological Applications, 28(1), 225–236.

Physiological thermal limits predict differential responses of bees to urban heat-island effects

BIOLOGY LETTERS, 13(6).

Forecasting the Effects of Heat and Pests on Urban Trees: Impervious Surface Thresholds and the ‘Pace-to-Plant’ Technique

Arboriculture & Urban Forestry, 42(3), 181–191.

Insect Conservation and Urban Environments

American Entomologist, 62(3), E2–E3.

Responses of arthropod populations to warming depend on latitude: evidence from urban heat islands

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 23(4), 1436–1447.

T. B. Mitchell: The Man BehindThe Bees of the Eastern United States

American Entomologist, 62(3), 157–162.

Urban warming reduces aboveground carbon storage

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1840), 20161574.

Urban stress is associated with variation in microbial species composition-but not richness-in Manhattan

ISME JOURNAL, 10(3), 751–760.

Urbanization Increases Pathogen Pressure on Feral and Managed Honey Bees

PLOS ONE, 10(11).

Do cities simulate climate change? A comparison of herbivore response to urban and global warming

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 21(1), 97–105.

Fine-scale heterogeneity across Manhattan's urban habitat mosaic is associated with variation in ant composition and richness

INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY, 8(3), 216–228.

Habitat and species identity, not diversity, predict the extent of refuse consumption by urban arthropods

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 21(3), 1103–1115.

Divergent Chemical Cues Elicit Seed Collecting by Ants in an Obligate Multi-Species Mutualism in Lowland Amazonia

PLoS ONE, 5(12), e15822.

Species-Specific Seed Dispersal in an Obligate Ant-Plant Mutualism

PLoS ONE, 4(2), e4335.

Characterization of 8 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the neotropical ant-garden ant, Camponotus femoratus (Fabricius)

CONSERVATION GENETICS, 10(5), 1401–1403.

Polymorphic microsatellite loci for the ant-garden ant, Crematogaster levior (Forel)

CONSERVATION GENETICS, 10(3), 639–641.

Seed odor mediates an obligate ant-plant mutualism in Amazonian rainforests

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(12), 4571–4575.

Cuticular hydrocarbon synthesis and its maternal provisioning to embryos in the viviparous cockroach Diploptera punctata

JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY, 51(7), 803–809.

The effects of ants on the entomophagous butterfly caterpillar Feniseca tarquinius, and the putative role of chemical camouflage in the Feniseca-Ant interaction

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY, 31(9), 2091–2109.