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Bryan N. Danforth

Bryan N. Danforth

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
69
Citations
17549
World Ranking
1444
National Ranking
528

Overview

Bryan N. Danforth is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these main fields, their work focuses on several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Genetics, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research topics encompass a broad range of areas related to plant and animal studies, insect and pesticide research, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, plant parasitism and resistance, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, and fossil insects in amber.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Bryan N. Danforth are:

  • (More than) Hitchhikers through the network: the shared microbiome of bees and flowers, 2020, Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Bees in the trees: Diverse spring fauna in temperate forest edge canopies, 2021, Forest Ecology and Management
  • The evolutionary history of bees in time and space, 2023, Current Biology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers including Silas Bossert, Elizabeth A. Murray, Quinn S. McFrederick, Scott H. McArt, and Jordan G. Kueneman.

Publications by Bryan N. Danforth are found regularly in journals such as the Journal of Applied Ecology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Apidologie, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems

    Christina M. Kennedy;Eric Lonsdorf;Maile C. Neel;Neal M. Williams

  • Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

    David Kleijn;Rachael Winfree;Ignasi Bartomeus;Luísa G. Carvalheiro;Luísa G. Carvalheiro

  • A simple and distinctive microbiota associated with honey bees and bumble bees

    Vincent G. Martinson;Bryan N. Danforth;Robert L. Minckley;Olav Rueppell

  • Climate-associated phenological advances in bee pollinators and bee-pollinated plants.

    Ignasi Bartomeus;John S. Ascher;David Wagner;Bryan N. Danforth

  • Historical changes in northeastern US bee pollinators related to shared ecological traits

    Ignasi Bartomeus;John S. Ascher;John S. Ascher;Jason Gibbs;Bryan N. Danforth

  • Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution of Stinging Wasps and the Origins of Ants and Bees

    Michael G. Branstetter;Michael G. Branstetter;Bryan N. Danforth;James P. Pitts;Brant C. Faircloth

  • A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes.

    Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Elinor M. Lichtenberg;Christina M. Kennedy;Claire Kremen;Péter Batáry

  • How do insect nuclear and mitochondrial gene substitution patterns differ? Insights from Bayesian analyses of combined datasets.

    Chung Ping Lin;Bryan N. Danforth

  • The history of early bee diversification based on five genes plus morphology

    Bryan N. Danforth;Sedonia Sipes;Jennifer Fang;Seán G. Brady

  • Mechanisms of spontaneous mutagenesis: An analysis of the spectrum of spontaneous mutation in the Escherichia coli lacI gene

    Roel M. Schaaper;Bryan N. Danforth;Barry W. Glickman

  • The bee genera of North and Central America (Hymenoptera:Apoidea)

    Charles Duncan Michener;Ronald J. McGinley;Bryan N. Danforth

  • The impact of molecular data on our understanding of bee phylogeny and evolution.

    Bryan N. Danforth;Sophie Cardinal;Christophe Praz;Eduardo A. B. Almeida

  • Bees diversified in the age of eudicots

    Sophie Cardinal;Bryan N. Danforth

  • Biodiversity ensures plant–pollinator phenological synchrony against climate change

    Ignasi Bartomeus;Ignasi Bartomeus;Mia G. Park;Jason Gibbs;Jason Gibbs;Bryan N. Danforth

  • Agriculturally dominated landscapes reduce bee phylogenetic diversity and pollination services

    Heather Grab;Michael G. Branstetter;Nolan Amon;Nolan Amon;Katherine R. Urban-Mead

  • Negative effects of pesticides on wild bee communities can be buffered by landscape context

    Mia G. Park;Mia G. Park;E. J. Blitzer;Jason Gibbs;Jason Gibbs;John E. Losey

  • Changing paradigms in insect social evolution: insights from halictine and allodapine bees

    Michael Philip Schwarz;Miriam H Richards;Bryan N Danforth

  • Elongation factor-1 alpha occurs as two copies in bees: implications for phylogenetic analysis of EF-1 alpha sequences in insects.

    Bryan N. Danforth;Shuqing Ji

  • Evolution of sociality in a primitively eusocial lineage of bees

    Bryan N. Danforth

  • Emergence dynamics and bet hedging in a desert bee, Perdita portalis

    Bryan N. Danforth

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Gibbs
Jason Gibbs University of Manitoba
Rachael Winfree
Rachael Winfree Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Luísa G. Carvalheiro
Luísa G. Carvalheiro Universidade Federal de Goiás
Denis Michez
Denis Michez University of Mons
Katja Poveda
Katja Poveda Cornell University
Ignasi Bartomeus
Ignasi Bartomeus Spanish National Research Council
Shalene Jha
Shalene Jha The University of Texas at Austin
Terry L. Griswold
Terry L. Griswold Utah State University
John S. Ascher
John S. Ascher National University of Singapore
Maj Rundlöf
Maj Rundlöf Lund University

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